Every Iron & Wood Gate from First Impression Ironworks is designed to provide security and beauty to your home, and is always custom built to your home’s specifications. Each gate is made in Arizona from the highest quality materials sourced here in the U.S.A., using only 100% American steel. Each Iron Gate is crafted from the most robust steel and gate posts available, as well as a standard 10” steel latch and lock guard, name brand Kwikset or Schlage hardware is always included, and customization is available for whatever needs fit your home best. Our product line includes a customizable array of steel plate gates, iron and wood gates, wrought iron and glass, or timeless iron and redwood gates. You can choose your Iron Gate from a variety of styles such as Contemporary, Traditional and Tuscan, and with additional options such as arches or digital locks. Our design consultants are here to help – let us know how we can create a one-of-a-kind Iron Gate for your home today!

Transitional freestanding desk dark wood floor study room photo in Tampa with gray walls and no fireplace

Every Iron & Wood Gate from First Impression Ironworks is designed to provide security and beauty to your home, and is always custom built to your home’s specifications. Each gate is made in Arizona from the highest quality materials sourced here in the U.S.A., using only 100% American steel. Each Iron Gate is crafted from the most robust steel and gate posts available, as well as a standard 10” steel latch and lock guard, name brand Kwikset or Schlage hardware is always included, and customization is available for whatever needs fit your home best. Our product line includes a customizable array of steel plate gates, iron and wood gates, wrought iron and glass, or timeless iron and redwood gates. You can choose your Iron Gate from a variety of styles such as Contemporary, Traditional and Tuscan, and with additional options such as arches or digital locks. Our design consultants are here to help – let us know how we can create a one-of-a-kind Iron Gate for your home today!

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Mid-sized farmhouse medium tone wood floor home office photo in Austin with white walls

Farmhouse white one-story gable roof photo in Boston

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Coastal three-story exterior home idea in Miami

Ward Jewell, AIA was asked to design a comfortable one-story stone and wood pool house that was "barn-like" in keeping with the owner’s gentleman farmer concept. Thus, Mr. Jewell was inspired to create an elegant New England Stone Farm House designed to provide an exceptional environment for them to live, entertain, cook and swim in the large reflection lap pool. Mr. Jewell envisioned a dramatic vaulted great room with hand selected 200 year old reclaimed wood beams and 10 foot tall pocketing French doors that would connect the house to a pool, deck areas, loggia and lush garden spaces, thus bringing the outdoors in. A large cupola “lantern clerestory” in the main vaulted ceiling casts a natural warm light over the graceful room below. The rustic walk-in stone fireplace provides a central focal point for the inviting living room lounge. Important to the functionality of the pool house are a chef’s working farm kitchen with open cabinetry, free-standing stove and a soapstone topped central island with bar height seating. Grey washed barn doors glide open to reveal a vaulted and beamed quilting room with full bath and a vaulted and beamed library/guest room with full bath that bookend the main space. The private garden expanded and evolved over time. After purchasing two adjacent lots, the owners decided to redesign the garden and unify it by eliminating the tennis court, relocating the pool and building an inspired "barn". The concept behind the garden’s new design came from Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello with its wandering paths, orchards, and experimental vegetable garden. As a result this small organic farm, was born. Today the farm produces more than fifty varieties of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers; many of which are rare and hard to find locally. The farm also grows a wide variety of fruits including plums, pluots, nectarines, apricots, apples, figs, peaches, guavas, avocados (Haas, Fuerte and Reed), olives, pomegranates, persimmons, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and ten different types of citrus. The remaining areas consist of drought-tolerant sweeps of rosemary, lavender, rockrose, and sage all of which attract butterflies and dueling hummingbirds. Photo Credit: Laura Hull Photography. Interior Design: Jeffrey Hitchcock. Landscape Design: Laurie Lewis Design. General Contractor: Martin Perry Premier General Contractors

Klopf Architecture and Outer space Landscape Architects designed a new warm, modern, open, indoor-outdoor home in Los Altos, California. Inspired by mid-century modern homes but looking for something completely new and custom, the owners, a couple with two children, bought an older ranch style home with the intention of replacing it. Created on a grid, the house is designed to be at rest with differentiated spaces for activities; living, playing, cooking, dining and a piano space. The low-sloping gable roof over the great room brings a grand feeling to the space. The clerestory windows at the high sloping roof make the grand space light and airy. Upon entering the house, an open atrium entry in the middle of the house provides light and nature to the great room. The Heath tile wall at the back of the atrium blocks direct view of the rear yard from the entry door for privacy. The bedrooms, bathrooms, play room and the sitting room are under flat wing-like roofs that balance on either side of the low sloping gable roof of the main space. Large sliding glass panels and pocketing glass doors foster openness to the front and back yards. In the front there is a fenced-in play space connected to the play room, creating an indoor-outdoor play space that could change in use over the years. The play room can also be closed off from the great room with a large pocketing door. In the rear, everything opens up to a deck overlooking a pool where the family can come together outdoors. Wood siding travels from exterior to interior, accentuating the indoor-outdoor nature of the house. Where the exterior siding doesn’t come inside, a palette of white oak floors, white walls, walnut cabinetry, and dark window frames ties all the spaces together to create a uniform feeling and flow throughout the house. The custom cabinetry matches the minimal joinery of the rest of the house, a trim-less, minimal appearance. Wood siding was mitered in the corners, including where siding meets the interior drywall. Wall materials were held up off the floor with a minimal reveal. This tight detailing gives a sense of cleanliness to the house. The garage door of the house is completely flush and of the same material as the garage wall, de-emphasizing the garage door and making the street presentation of the house kinder to the neighborhood. The house is akin to a custom, modern-day Eichler home in many ways. Inspired by mid-century modern homes with today’s materials, approaches, standards, and technologies. The goals were to create an indoor-outdoor home that was energy-efficient, light and flexible for young children to grow. This 3,000 square foot, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom new house is located in Los Altos in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Klopf Architecture Project Team: John Klopf, AIA, and Chuang-Ming Liu 
Landscape Architect: Outer space Landscape Architects 
Structural Engineer: ZFA Structural Engineers 
Staging: Da Lusso Design 
Photography ©2018 Mariko Reed 
Location: Los Altos, CA
 Year completed: 2017

We completely reconfigured this 2-level home in a Boston historic neighborhood to bring it to today’s style of living. The mechanical room was in the center of the lower level. We shifted its location along with nearly every other space in the home. It’s now a stunning, bright entertaining space. We selected beautiful furnishings that offer a fresh take on traditional. A complete new home – start to finish.

Stunning Frameless Glass Pool Fence Installation in Remsenburg-Speonk, NY 11960 We’re thrilled to share one of our latest projects—a meticulously crafted frameless glass pool fence installation in Remsenburg-Speonk, New York. This fence seamlessly blends safety with beauty, offering a clear view of the pool while enhancing the overall aesthetic of the outdoor space. Our team took the time to ensure every detail was flawless. We used premium stainless steel Polaris gate hardware—the industry’s best—and non-conductive coated stainless steel spigots, which were custom imported for this project. These top-tier materials, combined with our expertise, resulted in a sleek, modern, and durable fence that complements the surrounding landscape. This installation not only meets but exceeds safety standards, all while maintaining an unobstructed view of the pool area. It’s perfect for homeowners who value both style and security. Interested in a glass pool fence? Contact us today to discuss your vision. Our team at Sunrise Custom Fence is committed to delivering top-quality installations tailored to your needs. Whether you’re looking for a pool fence or another fencing solution, we’re here to help! Sunrise Custom Fence East Inc. Call us at 631-474-8650 Visit us at: www.sunrisecustomfence.com Email: sales@sunrisefence.com

Stunning Frameless Glass Pool Fence Installation in Remsenburg-Speonk, NY 11960 We’re thrilled to share one of our latest projects—a meticulously crafted frameless glass pool fence installation in Remsenburg-Speonk, New York. This fence seamlessly blends safety with beauty, offering a clear view of the pool while enhancing the overall aesthetic of the outdoor space. Our team took the time to ensure every detail was flawless. We used premium stainless steel Polaris gate hardware—the industry’s best—and non-conductive coated stainless steel spigots, which were custom imported for this project. These top-tier materials, combined with our expertise, resulted in a sleek, modern, and durable fence that complements the surrounding landscape. This installation not only meets but exceeds safety standards, all while maintaining an unobstructed view of the pool area. It’s perfect for homeowners who value both style and security. Interested in a glass pool fence? Contact us today to discuss your vision. Our team at Sunrise Custom Fence is committed to delivering top-quality installations tailored to your needs. Whether you’re looking for a pool fence or another fencing solution, we’re here to help! Sunrise Custom Fence East Inc. Call us at 631-474-8650 Visit us at: www.sunrisecustomfence.com Email: sales@sunrisefence.com

Stunning Frameless Glass Pool Fence Installation in Remsenburg-Speonk, NY 11960 We’re thrilled to share one of our latest projects—a meticulously crafted frameless glass pool fence installation in Remsenburg-Speonk, New York. This fence seamlessly blends safety with beauty, offering a clear view of the pool while enhancing the overall aesthetic of the outdoor space. Our team took the time to ensure every detail was flawless. We used premium stainless steel Polaris gate hardware—the industry’s best—and non-conductive coated stainless steel spigots, which were custom imported for this project. These top-tier materials, combined with our expertise, resulted in a sleek, modern, and durable fence that complements the surrounding landscape. This installation not only meets but exceeds safety standards, all while maintaining an unobstructed view of the pool area. It’s perfect for homeowners who value both style and security. Interested in a glass pool fence? Contact us today to discuss your vision. Our team at Sunrise Custom Fence is committed to delivering top-quality installations tailored to your needs. Whether you’re looking for a pool fence or another fencing solution, we’re here to help! Sunrise Custom Fence East Inc. Call us at 631-474-8650 Visit us at: www.sunrisecustomfence.com Email: sales@sunrisefence.com

Stunning Frameless Glass Pool Fence Installation in Remsenburg-Speonk, NY 11960 We’re thrilled to share one of our latest projects—a meticulously crafted frameless glass pool fence installation in Remsenburg-Speonk, New York. This fence seamlessly blends safety with beauty, offering a clear view of the pool while enhancing the overall aesthetic of the outdoor space. Our team took the time to ensure every detail was flawless. We used premium stainless steel Polaris gate hardware—the industry’s best—and non-conductive coated stainless steel spigots, which were custom imported for this project. These top-tier materials, combined with our expertise, resulted in a sleek, modern, and durable fence that complements the surrounding landscape. This installation not only meets but exceeds safety standards, all while maintaining an unobstructed view of the pool area. It’s perfect for homeowners who value both style and security. Interested in a glass pool fence? Contact us today to discuss your vision. Our team at Sunrise Custom Fence is committed to delivering top-quality installations tailored to your needs. Whether you’re looking for a pool fence or another fencing solution, we’re here to help! Sunrise Custom Fence East Inc. Call us at 631-474-8650 Visit us at: www.sunrisecustomfence.com Email: sales@sunrisefence.com

Kitchen Photo by Rob Karosis
Inspiration for a large cottage medium tone wood floor and brown floor kitchen/dining room combo remodel in New York with gray walls, a standard fireplace and a brick fireplace

Inspiration for a transitional great room remodel in Dallas with gray walls

Photo credit: Scott McDonald @ Hedrich Blessing 7RR-Ecohome: The design objective was to build a house for a couple recently married who both had kids from previous marriages. How to bridge two families together? The design looks forward in terms of how people live today. The home is an experiment in transparency and solid form; removing borders and edges from outside to inside the house, and to really depict “flowing and endless space”. The house floor plan is derived by pushing and pulling the house’s form to maximize the backyard and minimize the public front yard while welcoming the sun in key rooms by rotating the house 45-degrees to true north. The angular form of the house is a result of the family’s program, the zoning rules, the lot’s attributes, and the sun’s path. We wanted to construct a house that is smart and efficient in terms of construction and energy, both in terms of the building and the user. We could tell a story of how the house is built in terms of the constructability, structure and enclosure, with a nod to Japanese wood construction in the method in which the siding is installed and the exposed interior beams are placed in the double height space. We engineered the house to be smart which not only looks modern but acts modern; every aspect of user control is simplified to a digital touch button, whether lights, shades, blinds, HVAC, communication, audio, video, or security. We developed a planning module based on a 6-foot square room size and a 6-foot wide connector called an interstitial space for hallways, bathrooms, stairs and mechanical, which keeps the rooms pure and uncluttered. The house is 6,200 SF of livable space, plus garage and basement gallery for a total of 9,200 SF. A large formal foyer celebrates the entry and opens up to the living, dining, kitchen and family rooms all focused on the rear garden. The east side of the second floor is the Master wing and a center bridge connects it to the kid’s wing on the west. Second floor terraces and sunscreens provide views and shade in this suburban setting. The playful mathematical grid of the house in the x, y and z axis also extends into the layout of the trees and hard-scapes, all centered on a suburban one-acre lot. Many green attributes were designed into the home; Ipe wood sunscreens and window shades block out unwanted solar gain in summer, but allow winter sun in. Patio door and operable windows provide ample opportunity for natural ventilation throughout the open floor plan. Minimal windows on east and west sides to reduce heat loss in winter and unwanted gains in summer. Open floor plan and large window expanse reduces lighting demands and maximizes available daylight. Skylights provide natural light to the basement rooms. Durable, low-maintenance exterior materials include stone, ipe wood siding and decking, and concrete roof pavers. Design is based on a 2' planning grid to minimize construction waste. Basement foundation walls and slab are highly insulated. FSC-certified walnut wood flooring was used. Light colored concrete roof pavers to reduce cooling loads by as much as 15%. 2x6 framing allows for more insulation and energy savings. Super efficient windows have low-E argon gas filled units, and thermally insulated aluminum frames. Permeable brick and stone pavers reduce the site’s storm-water runoff. Countertops use recycled composite materials. Energy-Star rated furnaces and smart thermostats are located throughout the house to minimize duct runs and avoid energy loss. Energy-Star rated boiler that heats up both radiant floors and domestic hot water. Low-flow toilets and plumbing fixtures are used to conserve water usage. No VOC finish options and direct venting fireplaces maintain a high interior air quality. Smart home system controls lighting, HVAC, and shades to better manage energy use. Plumbing runs through interior walls reducing possibilities of heat loss and freezing problems. A large food pantry was placed next to kitchen to reduce trips to the grocery store. Home office reduces need for automobile transit and associated CO2 footprint. Plan allows for aging in place, with guest suite than can become the master suite, with no need to move as family members mature.

Glenn Layton Homes, LLC, "Building Your Coastal Lifestyle"
Beach style single front door photo in Jacksonville

The homeowners were very concerned about over-improving their modest split-level home built in 1961. They liked the “mid-century modern” feel and wanted to enhance that vibe. Top on their wish list was to replace the portable dishwasher with a built-in and add a peninsula for seating and workspace. To keep the labor cost down, the soffits and existing ceiling lighting was left intact. The first option was to keep the existing cabinets; however, the original layout did not allow adequate counter space on either side of the cooktop. After considered the price of new cabinets, they realized the value of having a brand new kitchen. The fun begins in the design phase. We chose the horizontal grain laminate to blend with the color of the existing woodwork in the home. The textured rhomboid shaped tile steals the show when accented with contrasting grout. The kitchen is a little mod and a little hip. And fits in perfectly as today’s “mid-century modern” home.

Tricia Shay Photography
Example of a minimalist l-shaped gray floor eat-in kitchen design in Milwaukee with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, black cabinets, white backsplash, stainless steel appliances, an island and white countertops