Traditional Tennessee brick home featuring "Virginia Highlands" red brick exterior featuring quoins and soldier course accents with buff mortar joints.

PROJECT Glass stairs and skylight separating two halves of a Hermosa Beach Strand Home. TEAM Architect: Ryan Knowlton, A.I.A. Builder: Tomaro Design Build Inc. NOTEWORTHY FEATURES Glass and Steel stairs with integrated guardrail lighting 250 square foot skylight with internal drainage system

Yukio Arikawa
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Photos by Matthew Cunningham

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The DIVIZIO GROUP, INC.
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When this homeowner’s neighbor removed two, two- story-high Ficus trees, her side-yard became baron and sunbaked. Concrete covers virtually the whole area from the house to the property line, but because the side-yard has a lot of foot traffic and serves as a sitting area to the basement apartment, the owner did not want to remove any of the concrete. The solution was to put up fencing to block the view of the neighbor’s house, then upcycle wine barrels and 55-gallon drums into huge planters. The drums are large enough to accommodate a full-sized tree and provide the added advantage of giving height to smaller trees to provide further screening of the neighbor’s house. Everything was painted in bright colors to give the space a cheery Caribbean feel. The neighbor’s tree removal ended up as a blessing in disguise, because what had been a drab trough-way was transformed into a happy patio.

Beachwood Custom Builders, 1200 Architectural Engineers, Jordan Honeyman Landscape Architecture, Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath, Photo by Amy Gardner
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This is the Vanity from our Master Suite Reconfiguration Project in Tribeca. Waterworks 'Henry' Fixtures were used throughout in Burnished Brass, which will age beautifully over time. Our GC developed a custom medicine cabinet with a metal frame to match the fixtures perfectly. Shaker Panels with a stepped detail, metal frames & applied mouldings set up a perfectly proportioned composition. Crown moulding was installed set off from the wall, creating a shadow gap, which is an effective tool in not only creating visual interest, but also eliminating the need for unsightly caulked points of connection, and the likelihood of splitting. The custom vanity was topped with a Neolith Estatuario product that has the look and feel of natural Statuary Stone, but better performance from a hardness and porosity point of view. Kelly Wearstler 'Utopia' Sconces and Shades of Light 'Moravian Star' surface lights were chosen to add a bit of flair to the understated transitional aesthetic of the project.

Peter Ellery
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From the distressed black cabinetry to the "free-range" rooster gracing the range, this kitchen evokes images of the French countryside. The black cabinetry is Medallion's Piccadilly door style in maple with Carriage Black finish and Heirloom Distressing. The lighter cabinets are Medallion's Piccadilly door in maple with Glazed Cashew finish. Custom built butcher block counter top and cabinets designed and installed by Allen's Fine Woodworking, Hood River, OR. Photos by Zach Luellen Photography, LLC.

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Photos Courtesy of Sharon Risedorph
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stone path on side of house into woods.
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