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Houzz Tour: Comfort, Character and Color in a Designer’s Own Home

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Seattle interior designer Harmony Weihs and her husband have four children between them, three of whom still live at home. They wanted a house where they could be comfortable and casual while spending time together. After they’d saved enough, they found a very tight real estate market and limited options for a house with four bedrooms in the kids’ school district.

However, the designer knew she could transform any house into a comfortable and functional home for the family. “It had been seven years since I’d been able to own and remodel a home, and I was so excited to do it again,” she says. In the house they eventually purchased, Weihs acted as both designer and general contractor, adding character and altering the floor plan to accommodate the casual way her family likes to cook, eat, watch games, study, do puzzles, take naps and catch up on each other’s day.



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Houzz Tour: Comfort and Color for a Designer’s Own Home

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Seattle interior designer Harmony Weihs and her husband have four children between them, three of whom still live at home. They wanted a house where they could be comfortable and casual while spending time together. After they’d saved enough, they found a very tight real estate market and limited options for a house with four bedrooms in the kids’ school district.

However, the designer knew she could transform any house into a comfortable and functional home for the family. “It had been seven years since I’d been able to own and remodel a home, and I was so excited to do it again,” she says. In the house they eventually purchased, Weihs acted as both designer and general contractor, altering the floor plan to accommodate the casual way her family likes to cook, eat, watch games, study, do puzzles, take naps and catch up on each other’s day.



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How the Houzz Pro Client Dashboard Works for You

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What Is the Client Dashboard?

When you work with a pro who uses Houzz Pro tools, they can give you access to a Client Dashboard to monitor, track and advance your home remodeling or design project or new build. This is a private portal that includes your communication history, project details, timeline, financial documents, project progress photos and more, and it can be accessed via desktop or mobile.

Using the Client Dashboard can help build a positive working relationship with your professional — increasing transparency, reducing stress and fostering trust.

Here are six things the Client Dashboard offers to improve your project experience.

1. Improved Communication

The Houzz Pro Client Dashboard gives you easy access to your communication history and project details in one central place, where you can access it at a glance. Your pro can make communications, schedules, daily logs and more available to you so you’ll never lose track of requests, conversations or approvals.

Can’t remember the details of a conversation you had with your pro? The Client Dashboard acts as a reference point where you can access information instantly, rather than having to go through endless emails or texts. It can be viewed 24/7, giving you round-the-clock access for peace of mind, reducing the need for back-and-forth messaging with your pro.

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5 of the Most Inviting English Country Kitchens on Houzz

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2. Rustic Farmhouse Style in Leicestershire

Kitchen at a Glance
Who lives here: A couple
Location: Leicestershire, England
Size: About 140 square feet (13 square meters); about 16 by 9 feet
Designer: Matt Fern of deVOL

Simple, honest materials, open cabinets and rich copper details combine to make this farmhouse kitchen feel warm and welcoming.

“It’s a classic Victorian staff kitchen in many ways — the open shelving, butler’s sink and scaffold-board [countertops] are all simple, functional features of an honest, hard-working space,” designer Matt Fern of deVOL says.

Materials were key in this project and copper and brass both feature heavily. “It was important that it wasn’t fussy or too polished,” he says. “It was important that it wasn’t fussy or too polished. They wanted a rustic farmhouse look with the emphasis on functionality,” Fern says.

Open cabinets were a careful design choice to create a warm, practical feel to the kitchen. “It’s an unashamed reflection of a working farmhouse kitchen, with all the pans on display where they’re close at hand,” Fern says.

“People are often reluctant to go for open cabinets, saying they’re just not tidy enough, but this couple embraced the idea, which was really refreshing,” Fern says. “They’re a good way to show your personality, whether you display decorative pieces or more functional items, such as colanders and crockery.”

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Houzz Tour: 1920s Home Sensitively Updated in Phases

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The phrase “worth the wait” is probably an understatement when it comes to this gorgeous English home, as the owners did have to exercise quite a bit of patience. Pandemic restrictions meant renovations to the tired 1920s property spanned two years and the work had to be divided into three phases.

“The owners saw the house in early 2020,” designer Natalie McHugh of N&K Interiors says. “They were keen to get going on extending it for their family and found us on Houzz when they searched local design and build companies, but COVID delayed everything.”

In September 2020, the team tackled a bathroom and four bedrooms, one of which was turned into a playroom, as well as changing all the windows and got the family in for Christmas. In January, they started the two-story side addition — laundry room, mudroom, powder room, living room and bedroom suite. The remaining work was completed in 2022, resulting in a home that’s both highly functional and full of warmth and character.



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Houzz Tour: Vintage Charm in a Seattle Craftsman

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Tammara Stroud DesignSave Photo
Photos by Miranda Estes Photography

House at a Glance
Who lives here: A woman
Location: Seattle
Size: 1,506 square feet (140 square meters); three bedrooms, 1½ bathrooms
Designer: Tammara Stroud
Contractor: Dave Headland of Headland Construction

The entry reveals a view straight back to the kitchen, to the dining room toward the back left and to the living room on the other side of the half wall seen here. The door opens to a coat closet.

“The one thing my client really wanted in here was hooks for her friends to hang their purses up,” Stroud says. This keeps them off her kitchen counters.

“The house was sinking. The foundation needed to be jacked up and the floors needed to be leveled,” Stroud says. This meant replacing all the flooring. The new hardwoods create consistency throughout the first floor, add warmth and suit the home’s age.

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Houzz Tour: New Family-Friendly Home Full of Color

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Lynn Holender DesignsSave Photo
Photos by Julie Soefer Photography

House at a Glance
Who lives here: A family of five with two dogs
Location: Houston
Size: Six bedrooms, eight bathrooms
Designers: Lynn Holender Designs (interior design) and Sullivan, Henry, Oggero and Associates (architecture)
Builder: Unika Homes

To understand the homeowners’ style and Holender’s approach, it’s best to start in the parlor. “They both love the work of artist Donald Robertson. This painting that they already owned needed a place of importance,” she says. The wife’s favorite color is blue and the husband’s is green. Holender gave each of them spaces that highlighted these hues.

“My client didn’t like the idea of a formal living room. She preferred the idea of a parlor,” Holender says. She liked that the word had its origins in the French word parler, which means “to speak.”

“This room encourages people to converse, make music and make connections without screens,” the designer says.

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Houzz Tour: Mid Mod Split-Level With Colorful Retro Flair

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After: Arnold had the house re-sided with a highly durable textured aluminum product that, painted an almost black charcoal gray, resembles shou-sugi-ban (Japanese-style charred wood siding). She paired it with a new black standing-seam metal roof.

Arnold also had the overgrown vegetation along the front of the home removed and added a poured-in-place concrete paver pathway.

The exterior architecture of the home remained largely the same, including the windows, some of which have an unusual pivot-slide function.

“They’re really beautiful,” Arnold says. “You’re not really going to get any made like that again.”

Exterior paint: Iron Ore, Sherwin-Williams



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Houzz Tour: Polished Rustic Redesign for a Mountain Home

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In looking for a vacation home in Vermont’s Green Mountains, these parents wanted plenty of space for their three kids to hang out and relax and for their family to gather with friends and relatives. They were aware they’d probably need to renovate whatever they found, so they brought in designer Milford Cushman to assess a few houses they felt had potential. They landed on this timber-frame home with spectacular mountain views of the Worcester Range.

The home had room for expansion in a large space over the garage and in the unfinished lower level. In addition, Cushman bumped out the footprint in a few key places. Other design priorities included bringing more light into the house and creating better connections to the outdoors. The finished home has a polished rustic look and is the perfect place for making lifelong memories.



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Houzz Tour: 19th-Century Church Reborn as a Family Home

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After: This picture doesn’t align perfectly with the previous one. But this is the view when standing at the far back of the new kitchen, again looking back toward the foyer and choir loft. The arched stained-glass window on the left of the previous picture is the one in the center of this photo, closest to the far wall.

To get reoriented, scroll down to the bottom to see the first-floor layout.

Foster laid out the all-electric kitchen, and the design team, Studio IQL, selected the finishes. The owners wanted the new materials to feel like they would age gracefully with the old ones, they told In With the Old, so they opted for soapstone countertops on half of the island and on the coffee bar, which backs up to the pony wall.

After some trial and error, the original pressed tin ceiling was painted bronze, but in this photo you can see a small section in the center that was left unpainted to show off its original patina.



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