Innholdsfortegnelse for January/February 2023 i House Beautiful

GOT A DESIGN CONFESSION? SEND IT TO ME! EDITOR@HOUSEBEAUTIFUL.COM “We transformed a very small maid’s room into a wonderful office. Millwork on three walls provides great storage, while a desk, files, bookcases, and even a Murphy bed were squeezed in to maximize functionality. A monochromatic scheme keeps the palette calm while a graphic wallpaper adds visual interest.”—Gideon Mendelson @gideonmendelson “Although constrained by about 120 square feet, we created an impactful entry moment by painting the walls and ceiling an olive green lacquer. The allover tone in a glossy application gave the space more dimension. We added architectural detailing on the ceiling to make the space feel less closed in.”—Katie Davis @katiedavisdesign “A coat closet! I made it into a makeshift sewing room for my client, and it looks awesome.”—Tiffany Piñero…

Wait, why bother? Attics are common in houses with sloped rooflines and dormers: that space between the rafters and ceiling of your top floor helps regulate temperature. But it doesn’t need to be a vast, cold, uninsulated, unplumbed room with a single dangling light bulb. Investing in making it a livable room can pay off big-time—doing so creates extra square footage, giving you (and guests) more room to roam, sleep, and store your stuff in style. Customize Your Space Bespoke beds, desks, and cabinets will take quirky rooflines from inelegant to intentional. “Built-ins would be my number one advice for sloped ceilings,” says designer Cara Fox. Plus, you can opt for on-site assembly if access is via a tight staircase or dropdown ladder. Think of All the Possibilities Add one…

A BIT MAD MEN AND A BIT ROARING ’20S. That’s the direction that Tanner Sammons got for his repeat client’s white-shingled 1920s home, situated among Ohio’s Portage Lakes. When the homeowner, “a single, older gentleman,” retired, he decided to make the two-bedroom retreat his primary residence and brought Sammons on to redecorate. “I said, ‘This project is far greater than sofas and pillows,’” the designer remembers, citing countless red flags that a renovation was in order: tiny rooms that didn’t flow, low-hung ceilings, unusually small doorways, and crumbly faux stucco walls. Over the course of three years, Sammons and his design partner Jennifer Laouari (the other half of their firm, Morgan Madison Design) transformed the rambling lake house, bringing light and life to the compact rooms within. Not one plain…

NEW FRONTIER A high-end vacation home with plenty of room, New Frontier’s forthcoming model is illuminated by LED lights and features huge windows on both ends and a generous floor plan with dual entrances. The narrow shape works well on small sites; you can add two side by side for a larger footprint. Pricing upon request, available in spring 2023. newfrontierdesign.com DWELL HOUSE Brand new to the market, the Dwell House by Abodu would make a great in-law suite for multigenerational living. The brand saw a major uptick during the pandemic as more families wanted to be closer to loved ones. Abodu delivers each unit turnkey, in as little as six months, saving you the headache of finding a builder. From $389,000. abodu.com CUBE TWO Step into the future with…

WHETHER YOU HAVE A CRAMPED APARTMENT OR A HOUSE THAT’S SHORT a guest bedroom, sometimes you need to manifest sleeping quarters out of thin air. Or, on the flip side, what if you could reclaim the space being taken up by a bed and use it for a home gym or office? Enter the Murphy bed, the fold-down wall bed patented by William Lawrence Murphy that gained popularity in the 1920s. The first iterations were purely functional, but these days, some of the world’s most renowned architects and designers are incorporating them into their high-end spaces. “It’s one compact piece that can turn your bedroom into an office, or anything else, and back in seconds,” explains Jennifer Jones, principal designer of Niche Interiors. Read on for tons of ideas and…

BOLD WALLPAPER BY HEIDI CAILLIER DESIGN A room-wrapping Antoinette Poisson print summons a blooming garden. “We brought character and lightness in with a freestanding vanity,” says Caillier of this balanced, blue powder room in a Portland home. SOPHISTICATED SIMPLICITY BY ALISON GIESE INTERIORS Giese personalized this tiny room—without actually changing its footprint—using a custom white-plaster vanity by Carrmichael Construction that features a stone top and vessel sink. The brass faucet and antique mirror offset a pair of simple sconces. MIRROR EFFECT BY SHIRLEY ROBINSON A custom wall-to-wall mirror and a hand-painted peacock print work together to accentuate the vaulted ceiling in this swanky powder room. The elegant sconces, which were installed directly onto the mirror to save space, add to the cool Art Deco feel. SKIRTED SINK BY LILSE MCKENNA…

AREMOTE A-FRAME CABIN ON THE tip of Belleayre Mountain, in the Catskills, is a far cry from the Bronx, in New York City, where Sarah P. Major’s clients primarily live—and that’s how they like it. As avid foragers and ardent cooks, the couple wanted a quiet week-end retreat where they could explore the outdoors and entertain. Snatching up a circa 1970s home designed by local Japanese American architect Ikuyo Tagawa, they enlisted BHDM Design, where Major is director of residential design, to bring it into the modern era. The two-bedroom residence lacked critical structural elements, like plumb walls, level floors, and a usable driveway. (“The previous owner used a snowmobile to get up and down from the property,” Major says.) But this ruggedness appealed to the clients, who wished “to keep…

THERE ARE TWO approaches one can take when renovating a historic property. “You can either lean into the existing personality, or you can strip some of it away for a blank slate,” says Andrea Fisk, a principal at Brooklyn-based Shapeless Studio Architecture & Interiors. When a creative family of three asked Fisk and Jess Hinshaw, her partner and fellow principal, to transform their apartment in Leeds, New York—comprising the top floor of a two-story building dating back to 1851 on the town’s main drag—the designers knew history would prevail. Downstairs is a printing studio and storefront that the couple use for their budding greeting card business, as well as a coffee shop. “Their goal in purchasing the mixed-use space, rather than just a studio, was to engage with the town,”…

SLIPPER CHAIRS These low-slung, armless seats are perfect perches for guests. NESTING TABLES Double the fun (and the surface area) with stackable storage. HIGHBOYS A tall dresser with drawers can hold more than just clothes.…

PINK, GREEN, PURPLE, BLUE. Pennsylvania designer Rasheeda Gray’s new client, lifestyle influencer Zakia Blain, checked off a lot of favorite colors on their initial call. “It’s like she was listing the entire rainbow,” Gray recalls. “I was thinking, Okay, but how do we find a way to translate that to something you can live with every day?” Blain described the suburban Philadelphia new build, where she resides with her teenage daughter and their dog, Chance, as “a big white box.” Gray was tasked with reimagining the living, dining, and kitchen spaces, as well as an entryway and powder room, and went searching for a pattern that connected all those seemingly disparate favorite colors in order to unify the rooms. She stopped when she saw a floral dining chair that Blain…