Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2024 i House Beautiful

IN THE EARLY 1920S, IT was common for the cooking zone to be hidden from the public areas of a house. The couple who bought this historic home in Seattle’s tony Broadmoor neighborhood were into that idea. They specified a “clean” kitchen to provide a beautiful backdrop for the living room and a “messy” kitchen, where they could cook their favorite dishes without worrying about staining the counters, Allison Lind says. They also wanted to preserve Art Deco details while incorporating the textures and colors of their native India. “It was important that we honor the history of the home while updating it for a modern family with refined taste,” Lind says. Rich golds and blacks, along with hardware sourced from their home country, ensure it’s authentic to both worlds…

FOR ANY URBANITE WHO’S HAD late-night Zillow fantasies about chucking it all and moving to a farm in the country, Toronto-based designer Allison Willson is proof it’s possible. “My husband and I had been searching for some property to build a farmhouse on for years,” Willson says. Their patient research paid off when they discovered a 50-acre parcel less than two hours from their home in Toronto that was essentially untouched. “There was a little old German man who had horses there, and he built a barn out of railway ties that used to run through the land.” On this fairy-tale ground, Willson and her husband plopped an Airstream trailer to live in with their two kids while they designed their dream home. “We spent time getting to know where…

FOR A FAMILY BIG ON entertaining, building a home from the ground up in Bakersfield, California, was an opportunity to customize everything in the kitchen. This space serves as the nexus—where two wings meet—in the roughly 12,000-square-foot contemporary ranch, so the room needed to do it all and then some. “They’ve got three kids and wanted their home to be the hangout house,” designer Lindye Galloway says. Mission accomplished, thanks to her cleverly zoned layout. A double island area, one with a surface in Calacatta Borghini marble and the other in black powder-coated metal, provides ample space for cooking and casual dining. Secondary spaces like a butler’s and walk-in pantry allow the primary kitchen to stay tidy. When spending time together by day, a breakfast nook is an intimate setting with…

WHEN THE OWNERS OF THIS charming home in the beach town of Nags Head, North Carolina, decided to raze their mishmash cottage and start fresh, they had one guiding directive: no signs of a new build. “They wanted the house to look like it had always been here,” Arianna Pannoni of the Baltimore-based firm Winsome Interior Design says of the couple, who have vacationed in the tight-knit community for generations. They wanted their friends and family to feel relaxed—to not think twice about coming in sandy from the beach and flopping on the sofa like they always had, design partner Kasey Bedford adds. To meet that brief, the designers leaned into period-inspired millwork, high-performance textiles, and finishes expressly selected for their aging potential, while also tweaking the layout to reflect…

A good renovation is like a crisp haircut—it looks effortless, but you know it took a skilled hand. This 1911 home in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood was in need of some expert grooming. It had once been a three-flat apartment building with Italianate details, but an uninspired update had left it with dowdy finishes and an odd layout. The new owners’ mission: Return the 3,600-square-foot space to its original splendor, with a modern twist. The couple brought in local designer Erin Shakoor, who, working with Senga Architects, opened up the public rooms for entertaining, banished cheap aluminum windows, and swapped dated floors for hardwoods and tile with a mix of decorative styles from Art Deco to Brutalism, including a striking geometric mosaic under the kitchen island that looks like an ornate,…

1. Plain, Pretty Cabinetry It’s not that we don’t love an inky blue island in a creamy white kitchen, but this beloved look is finally taking a backseat to the simplicity and warmth of wood finishes that are time-tested and nature approved. 2. Non-Recessed Lighting At some point—perhaps as a revolt against builder-grade can lights—designers decided that mini flush mounts were the new way to bring overhead lighting to kitchens, eliminating pockmarked ceilings. Beware, though: Too many and this look may fall flat fast. 3. Sexy Slide-In Refrigerators It used to be that all the “cool” things were reserved for the luxury appliance market, but now every brand is showing up in style. This new 36" Counter-Depth 4-Door Refrigerator (KRQC736RPS) from KitchenAid has removable bins that look good enough to…

YOU HAVE TO APPLAUD A DUO who have a small child, manage to keep their kitchen spotless, and regularly throw dinner parties at home. That’s exactly who Lindsey Black’s clients—a pair of doctors, one of whom is an accomplished pianist—are and what they wanted their new home in East Memphis, Tennessee, to empower them to do. They chose it for its traditional feel, mature landscaping, and good neighborhood—not its floor plan; so getting there took work. Architect David Anderson reoriented the kitchen to overlook the backyard, turning the former space into a small but fully equipped scullery and the former hearth room (complete with a fireplace, which he removed) into the family’s everyday kitchen. Black enhanced the cozy eight-foot ceilings and new layout with dark walnut finishes, moody colors, and French…

THERE IS NO OPEN FLOOR PLAN IN this house. “There is just one beautiful, elegant room that flows into the next so nicely you feel like you’re in a new place and never get bored,” Cecilia Casagrande of Casagrande Studio says. And boring is definitely not her style. A self-proclaimed maximalist, she asks herself regularly, Will adding one more pattern or color bring me to the circus?—and if the answer is no, she moves forward, full steam ahead. Not surprisingly then, this project started with Dungeons & Dragons. The homeowners originally called Casagrande to help overhaul five bathrooms in their newly purchased 1919 Brookline, Massachusetts, home, but as she got to know the family of four, she observed two things: “They love to play fantasy board games together,…and they are…