Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2020 i House Beautiful

The Rest Is Easy Follow these simple principles to prep your room for maximum zzz’s. 1. Invest in a Quality Mattress When it comes to getting a good night’s sleep, “the mattress is the most important element,” says Kraiem. “My key recommendation is to source one from a company with a good, long-lasting reputation, like Stearns & Foster.” 2. Layer Your Lighting Kraiem favors a mix, from table lamps and reading sconces to recessed lights and chandeliers. Try bulbs with lower wattages and dimmers to control the mood. To block outside light, Kraiem suggests lightweight curtains or Roman shades with blackout lining. 3. Pick a Peaceful Palette A bedroom’s color scheme can affect your mood and routine. Kraiem tends toward soothing hues, like shades of blue, ivory, mauve, and gray,…

BEING A DESIGNER and having a builder as a husband, we can adapt things,” says Sarah Rogers. Her own Nashville kitchen was an example of such adaptation. “Working in design for so long, we have gotten to experience all these different things for clients and then bring in the perfect culmination,” says her boss, April Tomlin. In a true collaboration, it was Tomlin who had the lightbulb when Rogers asked her opinion of the vision—an all-white space with a wood ceiling. “I said, ‘Why don’t you wrap this whole wall in wood?’” Tomlin recalls. “Do something different!” The update set a tone for the entire space. “I have a very clean, California style, but I wanted to add warmth without it being old-fashioned looking,” Rogers says. The result, they agree,…

THE DINING ROOM “LITERALLY looked like a conference room,” designer Everick Brown recalls with agony. When longtime clients of his—a culture-obsessed British couple with three grown kids—bought a 1955 five-bedroom house in Harrison, New York, he transformed the bad (vast, oddly shaped rooms with white marble floors that gave off a veritable frost) in order to highlight the groovy, midcentury good (ebony paneling, split levels, cobblestone walls). To warm the place up, Brown first swapped the kitchen with the dining room; with a smaller footprint, the latter now has a convivial feel, while the new cook space has clerestory windows that soar to pine-sheathed, 20-foot-high ceilings. “Imagine walking into that kitchen with all the natural light. It’s just spectacular,” says Brown, who gut renovated the home alongside architect Rosamund Young.…

EVERY MORNING, DESIGNER FITZ Pullins and his fiancé, Steve Williams, are greeted by a barrel’s worth of silver monkeys and dozens of fluttering blue jays. The colorful menagerie—or, more specifically, the Cole & Son wallpaper depicting it—fills their en suite bathroom, visible from the bed through a pair of French doors. “What’s more invigorating than a jungle?” Pullins says. “Waking up, brushing your teeth—I want it to be entertaining for me.” It’s a modus operandi for his life and his approach to designing his own home, a five bedroom, five bathroom in Jacksonville, Florida, just steps away from the St. Johns River. “I’ve been in Jacksonville all my life, born and raised,” he says. “I tried to escape a couple of times and it didn’t last very long.” Pullins and…

IT’S NO LONGER ENOUGH FOR kitchens to be simply pretty. These days, they need to function for every culinary level and age group (and preserve food longer for all those at-home meals). Designer Sarah Robertson of New York’s Studio Dearborn dreamt up a multigenerational space with style to spare. Handmade zellige tiles in fresh white and peacock blue offset rustic alderwood cabinetry, and rather than selecting one type of hardware, Robertson chose five different designs, including brass and leather. The nearby farm inspired batten-style panel fronts on the refrigeration wall, while the island, made of quartz and wenge wood, has plenty of space for grandparents to pull up and chop; additional undercounter storage makes cleanup easy for all. In the pantry, a built-in vacuum sealer (which slows the aging and…

WOULD TEENAGE GIRLS BE willing to give up separate bedrooms if it meant gaining their own super-swanky lounge? We think so. When designer Charlotte Lucas of Charlotte, North Carolina, considered these sibling rooms, she decided to create one for sleep and one for, well, everything else. A whimsical leafy mural envelops the bedroom and is offset by a graphic dotted carpet and matching retro headboards. The adjacent salon has all the function (and fun) they could dream of: a re-covered, vintage ombré sofa for kicking back and hanging with friends, a long desk with floating shelves for focused study time, and an entertainment unit for marathoning YouTube and blasting music. OK, actually, if the teens don’t want this, we definitely do.…

Chill Out Made from 100 percent eco-friendly materials, Buffy’s supersoft, breathable Cloud comforter and sheet sets keep you cool all night long. From $129 for comforter, buffy.co. Listen Carefully Beautiful and powerful, the pint-size Phantom Reactor Opéra de Paris speaker by Devialet offers explosive audio. $1,850, devialet.com. Eat Well Available in five colors, Caraway’s nontoxic and nonstick ceramic cookware looks as good as it cooks. $395 for 7-Piece Cookware Set, carawayhome.com. Control the Environment Program different areas of your home to the ideal temperature without breaking a sweat using the Trane ComfortLink II XL1050 touch screen, which can also be controlled via any smartphone, tablet, or computer. Available with Trane HVAC systems. trane.com. Work Smarter A sturdy, modular solution for turning any wall into a work space, The Everyday System…

WHERE DO I DREAM OF LIVING? IT’S A QUESTION MANY OF US HAVE ASKED ourselves this year. Setting aside a million tiny existential crises, it’s tough to argue with Colorado, considering its gorgeous scenery and population of active thrill seekers. When deciding where to build our third Whole Home Concept House, we were taken with a new development between Denver and Colorado Springs: Fox Hill, an eco-friendly community built around a sustainable farm, where residents can pick their own squash and grab some fresh eggs while taking in views of the Front Range. We chose our very own lot, then made some calls. The first was to local builder Nicholas Custom Homes, who dug in (literally) and created a family home that fit into this forward-thinking neighborhood. Next came 10…

CONSIDER IT A COMEBACK. IN an era when hanging at a pub is literally off-limits, the home bar is no longer frivolous—it’s necessary. This family-friendly lounge was designed by the Brooklyn-based duo of Cristina Casañas-Judd and General Judd, and is packed with everything you need for your pod. The punchy, modern Old West–inspired room mixes an overscale basket-weave wallcovering, electric-blue cabinetry, a Day of the Dead print, and graphic black-and-white tiles to let you know the party’s here. What looks like a surfboard is actually a sound system primed for dance-offs and sing-a-thons. The bar (aka a mini kitchen of its own) is stocked with tools to prevent any need to run upstairs, like a popcorn-ready microwave, a two-in-one beverage fridge, an ice maker, and even a dishwasher. A beer…

“I WANTED TO CREATE SPACES WHERE PEOPLE come together, look at one another, and engage in conversation,” says San Francisco–based designer Noz Nozawa. In the interest of encouraging folks to put their phones away, she pulled motifs from midcentury furniture and conversation pits, traditional Japanese seating, and African furnishings for two alluring zones with distinct personalities that live happily together. The more revved-up fireside area, anchored by a fireplace with agrarian tile reminiscent of a bird’s-eye view of farmland and cast in a sunny 1970s color palette, includes inset shelving and an eclectic mix of vintage leather furniture paired with contemporary (and height-adjustable) Ghanaian-inspired stools. The plush Berber rug, traditionally made by women of the North African Beni Ourain tribes, encourages lounging on the floor. Across the room, a circular…

WHETHER YOUR PARENTS ARE VISITING OR HAVE PERMANENTLY MOVED IN (OR YOU have boomerang kids riding out the pandemic), they’d appreciate a space that’s entirely their own. Down the hall from the kitchen, Tiffany Brooks whipped up an apartment with its own kitchen and living room in addition to a bedroom and private patio. Motivated by her parents’ style then and now (“Imagine if the ’90s were done right!” she jokes), the Chicago designer carried the color mauve throughout the great room, while a saturated green is set against a grand four-poster bed with its own chandelier in the sleeping area. In lieu of a formal dining table, Brooks added a banquette and breakfast nook with bonus storage underneath; the cozy outdoor couch near the fireplace is another desirable spot…

AS A HOMEOWNER, you weigh the roof materials that will last decades. You seek out extra bedrooms for the kids or guests you plan to have, and you wonder if a kitchen cabinet color will seem dated by 2025. But far too few people consider perhaps the most critical aspect of planning, a topic so un-fun that many designers have developed politely manipulative strategies to broach it. “Nobody wants to hear, ‘When you get really old in a couple of years, you’re going to want grab bars,’” says Brooklyn designer Jennifer Morris. “You have to prepare people in a way that they can hear it. ‘When your mother comes to visit, will she be able to get into the shower?’ Little examples like that get people thinking about decisions that…

WHEN BROOKLYNITES talk about “getting a place in the country,” they usually mean a weekend house in the Hudson Valley, the Catskills, or maybe, if they’re pushing it, Connecticut. But when Stephanie Housley and her husband, tech executive Chris Lacinak, decided to decamp from their Williamsburg apartment in favor of a quieter lifestyle, they set their sights on somewhere significantly more remote—as in, two-hours-from-the-nearest-convenience-store, no-Amazon-Prime-available, snowshoe-to-town-for-supplies remote. “We were both aching for more access to open spaces, fresh air, and wildlife,” says Housley, who owns decor-and-textile brand Coral & Tusk. She and Lacinak considered buying a house in one of the usual spots near the city but couldn’t help but imagine themselves out west—in Wyoming, specifically. Housley had always loved it there (“my parents took me to Grand Teton and…

THE CLIENTS INVITED HIM TO PLOP DOWN at a card table in an empty field. Architect Richard Beard surveyed the “stunningly beautiful” 60-acre plot in Geyserville, California, and required little convincing when they turned to him with a question: What do you think about putting a house here? It wasn’t Beard’s first time receiving tabula rasa from the couple, Bieke and Brian Burwell. He’d crafted their previous home years ago, and now, with their three boys grown, the couple wanted something smaller and leaner, yet still primed for entertaining. Beard concocted two low-slung geometric volumes, clad in wood, for a main residence and poolhouse. Devised to blend with the site’s topography and darken over time, the home is “what I would call a recessive piece of architecture—it really recedes into…

WHEN YOU HAVE AN UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AS YOUR BACKDROP, basic goes out the window. For Houston-based designer Lucinda Loya, this space (don’t call it a living room—it’s so much more than that) was all about taking inspiration from the natural landscape to foster a welcoming environment full of texture, warmth, and soothing neutrals. A gallery of art and stunning brass stalactite-esque pendants greet guests as they come in, and a floor-to-ceiling fireplace offers bench seating for extra friends (or pets) to perch. An oversize sectional with an extended backless chaise (Loya has one just like it in her own house), covered in a no-nonsense performance fabric, supplies the perfect spot for working from home, lounging with family, or watching the sunset. Windows: Marvin. Wallcoverings: Phillip Jeffries. Lighting: Circa Lighting. Entry surround, benches,…

THROUGH HILTON | ASMUS CONTEMPORARY) HELPS KEEP THE MOOD CHILL. ONCE PLAYTIME IS OVER, WHAT better place to head than a tranquil room meant for nothing more than recovery from your day (or a few too many cocktails)? Georgantas created this lower-level, glassed-in getaway to be over-the-top Zen, with bark-inspired wallpaper, a grown-up futon, and beanbags that can be pulled down for friends. Window coverings and a wall-mounted water feature, which adds just the right dose of white noise, prevent light and sound from disturbing the vibe. When you’re actually trying to stay awake, more structured seating and plenty of tables can be pulled up for a quick nosh and sip, away from the more boisterous space next door.…

WHEN YOU’RE BUILDING A HOUSE IN A PLACE THAT BOASTS MORE THAN 300 days of sunshine each year, making the most of the great outdoors is a major consideration. Tasked with the massive covered area, Portland-based designer Max Humphrey approached it like an indoor great room, dividing this huge space into zones with different purposes: An outdoor “living room” with tons of seating offers a great spot for fireplace chats; a deep-set pair of swinging daybeds are a dreamy refuge for afternoon reading; and a Ping-Pong table near the eating area ensures that you can burn calories in an Olympic-level matchup, then refuel with some straight-off-the-grill fare.…