Innholdsfortegnelse for New Old House 2022 i Old House Journal

IF YOU HAPPEN TO LIVE in the same town where your forebears settled in the 18th century, bonding inextricably with the land is often preordained. For one homeowner in a Massachusetts enclave 20 miles west of Boston, building a house on five acres of inherited farmland was in many ways the ultimate tribute to her father, a longtime advocate for preserving the town’s natural resources. It was also a means of perpetuating the virtues of an open-field habitat and the fauna it supports, particularly different species of birds, including red-tailed hawks and wild turkeys. With a background in architecture, the homeowner also had more than a passing interest in the type of house that would grace the property. An architect friend and a member of the family in the construction…

THE INTERIOR DESIGNER Bryan Graybill says his drawing skillset may not be the best, but he’s pretty good at imagining a program. For his own house in East Hampton, New York, he basically wrote a treatment for a screenplay. He let his imagination romp across the farms and fields of 18th-century East Hampton, through the boom and bust of its 19th-century commerical whaling days, and then across an array of pubs, hotels, and restaurants in 21st-century London. Adding to that was his nostalgia for a childhood spent in Aiken, South Carolina. “I wrote a narrative, as if the property once had belonged to farmers with a Shaker-style farmhouse. In the mid-1800s it was home to a successful English whaling captain. The house was added onto in the late 1800s,” he…

LIKE GREAT ART, a great house does not scream for attention. This Cape Cod beachfront home presents with a restrained appeal rooted in the Shingle Style. The project was shaped by Peter Zimmerman, AIA, founding principal of Peter Zimmerman Architects of Berwyn, Pennsylvania, along with owners Bonnie and Richard Rossello, and with Dan Solien of Botanica Fine Gardens Ltd., and Mary Hastings Interiors. • Evidence of Zimmerman’s gift for finding art in architecture is in every room of this 4,970-square-foot home in Falmouth, Massachusetts. “Our goal, for any house, is that every room be beautifully proportioned, with an abundance of natural light and openness,” says Zimmerman. Thoroughly schooled in classical architecture, he is mindful of the “strong in structure, light in spirit” shingled homes of the outer Cape and Nantucket…

CLASSIC KITCHENS LOWCOUNTRY KITCHEN page 20 INTERIOR DESIGNER Tammy Connor Interior Design tammyconnorid.com ARCHITECT Roger Seifter, Robert A.M. Stern Architects ramsa.com BUILDER Grossman Building Group grossmanbuildinggroup.com COUNTERTOPS Pietra Cardoso honed limestone Marmi Natural Stone marmistone.com TILEWORK Architectonics Handmade Field Tile Waterworks waterworks.com FLOORING Wide-plank white oak Wyatt Childs Inc. wyattchildsinc.com APPLIANCES Integrated Over-and-Under Refrigerator Freezer; Refrigerator Drawers; Ice Maker with Pump Sub-Zero subzero-wolf.com RANGE Lacanche “Sully” frenchranges.com HOOD RangeCraft rangecraft.com DISHWASHER Asko askona.com SINK Elkay Crosstown Stainless Steel elkay.com FAUCET Barber Wilsons & Co. barberwilsons.com LIGHTING Globus Hanging Pendants The Urban Electric Co. urbanelectric.com COUNTER STOOLS Adjustable Thread Stools Stillfried Wien stillfried.com HARDWARE Rocky Mountain Hardware ‘Bird’ collection hardware rockymountainhardware.com DINING CHAIRS custom, Walters Wicker walterswicker.com UPHOLSTERY FABRIC Janus et Cie shopjanusetcie.com PERFECTLY IMPERFECT page 25 DESIGNER Courtnay Daniels Interior…

THE NEW OWNERS called the architect who had designed this house in the 1990s: Roger Seifter, partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. “The project was unique, because it was the same house but for a new owner with different needs,” Seifter explains. “Also, 20 years had passed, so even technology was different.” The Shingle Style house is on Kiawah Island, South Carolina. (See the related story on p. 36.) Interior designer Tammy Connor, with whom these owners had worked previously, was called in to marry the interior spaces to the traditional architecture and the beachfront surroundings. Now 14,000 square feet, the house is a retreat where extended family come together. It’s used for “quiet weekends, big family gatherings, and everything in between,” Seifter says. Naturally, many of the upgrades revolve…

IT’S NOT OFTEN that an architect gets to revisit a commission. But Roger Seifter, partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, got exactly that at a home on Kiawah Island, South Carolina—after a span of 20-plus years. For his initial inspiration, he’d looked to Stanford White’s Shingle Style homes on Long Island, and to others on Kiawah. His more recent design echoes and expands on his first. “The house was originally designed in the late 1990s, and then was redone from 2017 to 2019,” he says. “We updated everything, including the systems.” Comprising two oceanfront lots, the site is wider than most on the island—making it highly desirable. The new owners are based in the Northeast, and already had a winter home on Kiawah. But when this one came on the…

GREG SEBOLT calls architect Jeffrey Dungan a land whisperer. “When we first walked the property together, I could see Jeff’s mind working,” says Sebolt, whose six-bedroom family retreat nestles among trees and overlooks the water within the Reserve at Lake Keowee in South Carolina. “After dinner, he drew a quick sketch of the house he envisioned—and that is almost exactly how it looks today.” With sunlight slanting through the leafy canopy onto its low-sweeping cedar-shake roof and a three-story stone tower, the house would not look out of place in the English countryside. Inspired by the London-born, late-19thcentury architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, Dungan says he “took the Arts & Crafts [movement] and cleaned it up a little bit” by cutting back on ornamentation. Yet there’s an undeniable storybook charm about…

“I’M NOT BIG ON TRENDS,” admits Courtnay Daniels, seated in an 18th-century dining chair at the kitchen table in her pre-war apartment on New York City’s Upper East Side. The founder of Courtnay Daniels Interior Decoration became her own imaginative client when she transformed a claustrophobic galley kitchen into an open, charming place for her family of four to gather. Kitchen overhauls are typically lengthy and expensive. “There’s nothing worse than renovating and then finding out five years later that your kitchen looks dated,” she says. “I designed my kitchen imagining that 50 years from now it will still look timeless.” When Daniels and her two older children relocated from the Bay Area, with its breezy, light-saturated architecture, to the historic 1920s co-op, where she now lives with her husband…

THE LITTLE CABIN WAS TRULY “THE TAIL THAT WAGGED THE DOG.” That’s how Barnes-Vanze Architects describes a storybook log cabin, built in the 1800s, that was a hair’s breadth away from demolition. Then firm principal Steve Vanze and his team—Melanie Giordano and Sydney Katz—came to its rescue. “You don’t run into many of these,” says Vanze. “We had to save it.” Clients Neada and Brian Onufrychuk, new to country life in Virginia, were so focused on the five acres of land (“It’s magical,” sighs Neada), that they hadn’t really noticed the squat, chinked-wall structure attached to a nondescript 1925 house ready for the wrecking ball. As soon as they did, however, they instantly recognized its value. Now a favorite part of the house, the restored cabin initially gave her pause,…

Forty miles west of Charleston, set along the banks of the Ashepoo River, this 1,800-acre property dates back to 1697 as a land grant from King Charles II. Pond, riverbank, Southern live oak, and loblolly pine mingle with the structural remnants of a plantation past. It’s believed that three homes had been built on site—and all succumbed to either fire or natural disaster. The land’s natural beauty persists. “When our clients purchased the parcel, the existing house had been rebuilt over the years, and was small and insignificant compared to the scale of the property,” explains Terry Pylant, senior principal at Historical Concepts, an award-winning architectural firm based in Atlanta. In its place, they wanted a home that expressed their passions for history, art, land conservation, hunting, and exotic collectibles.…