Innholdsfortegnelse for April/May 2023 i 5280 Home

Los Angeles transplants Amy Pigliacampo and Corey Szopinski knew they had their work cut out for them when they bought this Front Range home at auction six years ago. “I wanted a project that was going to be a massive transformation,” says Pigliacampo, a former fashion stylist who had recently shifted to a career in interior design. But had the couple known that every problem they thought the house might have would turn out to be the worst possible version of that problem, would they still have forged ahead? Perhaps not. The original house “was kind of a science experiment,” says architect Ian Read, a college friend of Pigliacampo’s who—along with his wife and co-principal, Gretchen Krebs, and project architect Andy Pittman—helped address the home’s failing systems while bringing a…

Hop on Surround Architecture’s website and you’ll notice that each of the homes in the firm’s portfolio has been given a clever name that captures its aesthetic, spirit, or locale. (Think: Shadow Box, Black Bear, or Trailhead.) So, when the owners of this North Boulder house attended their first meeting with Anna Slowey, director at Surround and the lead architect and designer for their renovation, they already had a name in mind: Koselig. Loosely translated, the Norwegian word (pronounced koosh-lee) means coziness. It’s a close relative to the ubiquitous Danish hygge, but the difference is that koselig describes a connection to nature, to place, and to the people you love. Set on a triple-wide lot in the Newlands neighborhood, the couple’s home already provided a strong connection to nature and…