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Lindberg’s office is also on the first floor, just off the foyer. Petite and pretty, it has a built-in white oak desk with upper cabinets painted a warm greenish-gray.
Once again, the light fixtures are standout design elements, especially the antiqued brass star suspended from the ceiling.
Among the invisible special features in the office — as well as in most rooms throughout the house — is sound insulation in the walls and between the ceilings and floors. “When you’ve got your loud subwoofers playing your movies in the basement, [you] can knock down the sound by over 50%,” Thompson says. “It’s almost like not having anybody down there.”
Upper cabinet paint: Carolina Gull, Benjamin Moore; Rex pendant light: Arteriors; sconces: Clarkson, Visual Comfort
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Lindberg’s office is also on the first floor, just off the foyer. Petite and pretty, it has a built-in white oak desk with upper cabinets painted a warm greenish-gray.
Once again, the light fixtures are standout design elements, especially the antiqued brass star suspended from the ceiling.
Among the invisible special features in the office — as well as in most rooms throughout the house — is sound insulation in the walls and between the ceilings and floors. “When you’ve got your loud subwoofers playing your movies in the basement, [you] can knock down the sound by over 50%,” Thompson says. “It’s almost like not having anybody down there.”
Upper cabinet paint: Carolina Gull, Benjamin Moore; Rex pendant light: Arteriors; sconces: Clarkson, Visual Comfort
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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House at a Glance
Who lives here: A couple and their two teenage daughters
Location: Alpharetta, Georgia
Size: 3,864 square feet (359 square meters); four bedrooms, 4½ bathrooms
Design-build firm: Ecraft
Architect: Peter Shipps
Architect Peter Shipps designed the house, while Holle worked out the finishes and built-ins. “This was a home where we made the most of every inch,” she says. The homeowner worked with local Alpharetta business The Happy Home to help her with wallpaper and lighting selections.
The architectural style of the house is Greek Revival meets Southern hospitality. The symmetrical white facade, Doric columns, gable roof, simple moldings and entablature (the long horizontal lines above the columns) represent the former. The gracious front porch is welcoming and a classic element in the architecture of the American South. Traditional black louvered shutters, a trio of elegant lantern-like pendant lights and the picket fence add to the home’s charm. “The Doric columns were my client’s idea,” Holle says. “From the street, the house looks quaint and cozy.”
Exterior paint: White Dove, Benjamin Moore
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