In the kitchen, upper cabinets were removed and small windows were replaced with gliders that soar from the concrete countertop backsplash to the ceiling. “We took a brand-new house and gave it a sense of age and patina, she explains.
Inside, interior designer Lisa Tharp turned to “honest and natural materials” like concrete countertops, plaster or stone walls, grasscloth wallpaper, and unfinished wood beams. “It’s unusual in New England to have such an extensive outdoor living space that’s not screened in and is open to the elements,” says builder Jonathan Merz. A pair of planters creates a gentle separation from the deck area below. The porch, designed as a three-season-plus living space, features a daybed swing (“the best seat in the house,” the owner says), with sofa and chairs arranged around a concrete coffee table. Unobtrusive landscaping by Michelle Crowley Landscape Architecture ensures that the additions, built by Merz Construction, gently fall away from the house with the natural slope of the land, leaving the views from indoors unobstructed. The first step in the transformation was the addition of a covered, Shingle-style porch and pool deck to the rear, an occasional outdoor yoga space that begins at the level of the kitchen and family room and steps down to a new swimming pool. “The house was very inward-looking when we started,” he notes. Mello, senior project manager for architects Dewing Schmid Kearns. “We wanted it to be more cozy and comforting, relaxed, and kind of unexpected,” especially given the unassuming nature of the front of the house, she says.įrom a design standpoint, “The key here was overcoming the challenges of a tight and narrow site and a building that didn’t satisfy what the owners were after,” says Justin R. That was anathema to the homeowner, who grew up on a farm in upstate New York and sought to create what she calls a “retreat” in harmony with the natural world for her family of four. It was not always thus: when the 4,500-square-foot home was built as a spec house, its rear elevation was basically a three-story blank, with small windows, minimal access to the sloping backyard, and little flow between the indoor and outdoor parts of the property. From the moment you step through the front door, you’re greeted with a mirror of the vision you’ve been enjoying all along-sweeping views out of the kitchen and family room windows across a porch, deck, and pool to gently undulating meadows and trees, stark and beautiful in the amber light. Normally, indoors is the last place you’d want to be on a day like this. There are few better places in the world to be on a sunny winter afternoon than Concord, Massachusetts: under a fresh blanket of snow, silent farms and old red barns compete for attention with sun-dappled stone walls as you meander along gently rolling back roads, some of which were trodden by Redcoats and patriots nearly 250 years ago. SAN DIEGO FLORAL FANTASIA SAN FRANCISCO PARIS SHOPS SAN GABRIEL FRIDA PICKLES FLOWER SHOP SAN JUAN BAUTISTA NOTABLY NOBLE SANTA BARBARA VICES & SPICES FROM AROUND THE WORLD SEAL BEACH MIEN STUDIOS NOTABLY NOBLE CO.Function melds with fashion in an adjacent powder room, where exterior shingles and floors of repurposed terracotta roof tiles blend indoors and out. RESCUE H3 BARN MARKET ROCKLIN DEER CREEK FARM SAN CLEMENTE ERBA INC. WILD STEMS MENDOCINO TANGENTS MONTROSE ROAM.E BOUTIQUE MOUNTAIN VIEW BLOOMSGIVING MURRIETA MURRIETA DAY SPA NEWPORT BEACH WILD STRAWBERRY CAFE PACIFIC PALISADES SQUARE ONE REFILLS PORTERVILLE NATALIE’S GIFTING CO. FORT BRAGG ANANSE VILLAGE FULLERTON GENOVIA & DREAMER HINKLEY FARMHOUSE BOUTIQUE Jackson OM Shanti Wellness Center LAGUNA BEACH WYLDE INDIE LOS ANGELES CULTURAL INTERIORS MARIE ET CIE. Locations in: Calabasas, Los Angeles, Palisades, Santa Monica, Silver Lake and Venice BENICIA le sPARKLY chateau BIG PINE NORDIC LILLY CANYON COUNTRY LYNEE BEAUTY AND APPAREL Carlsbad Studio 1220Ĭarlsbad, ca 92009 CARONA DEL MAR BLU CANOE CHERRY VALLEY HIGHLAND SPRINGS RANCH & INN COCKERMOUTH No15 EL CENTRO MELISSA MICHAEL SPA, SALON, MAKEUP STUDIO ESCONDIDO SEA HIVE MARKETPLACE FAIRFIELD VILLAGE 360 FAIR OAKS BAD B BEAUTY CO. Click Link above for detailed location info.
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