Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2025 i House Beautiful

IN THE CENTURY and a half since it was built, this 1872 loft has endured repeated water damage due to Chicago’s extreme weather. Then, to add insult to injury, midway through its latest renovation, a pipe burst on Christmas Eve, halting progress and forcing a series of “design recalibrations.” That setback didn’t stop Goesling Group and O’Brien Harris, who had been tasked with updating the two-bedroom condo—including transforming the lackluster 1990s builder-grade kitchen. Now, sophisticated blue-green cabinetry, a marble counter-splash (with a unified sink apron), and striking glass-and-brass shelving set the foundation, while a 19th-century French trestle table and 1950s dining chairs maintain the space’s distinct personality.…

ACCORDING TO Jess and Jonathan Nahon, their New York City–based client wanted to build a seasonal residence in the Hamptons but had one fear: What if the house felt cookiecutter? In an area where exterior design rules are strict, the cofounders of Sugarhouse Design & Architecture were tasked with creating an 8,000-square-foot retreat “that felt like it had evolved over generations, not appeared overnight,” Jess says. They also had another goal: to design a home fit for its surroundings. “The setting is beautiful,” Jonathan says. For permitting purposes, the husband-and-wife team had to finalize the classic, cedar-shingle exterior nearly a year before fully designing the six-bed-room, five-and-a-half bathroom interior. During the wait for town board approval, the homeowners had a baby and the designers produced an interior design plan—one that…

EACH HOME SPEAKS ITS OWN language, a vocabulary made up of its architecture, locale, and the design choices of previous owners. When Catherine and VW Fowlkes of Fowlkes Studio were hired to upgrade an architecturally confused home in Washington, D.C., for a family of five, the pair stepped into the role of translators as well as designers, deciphering what story the house was really meant to tell. When they encountered it, the 8,750-square-foot home was filled with “slightly overwrought ideas of glamour,” Catherine says. It contained a series of meandering rooms and misguided design accents including Sistine Chapel wallpaper on the ceiling of the primary bathroom. Though the original structure was built in 1926, years of disjointed renovations had muddied its historic charm, so the husband-and-wife team decided to revive…

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Customize It Designed to your specifications and tailored to the inch, this cozy banquette adds seating while making the most of every nook and cranny. Color Swap Update furniture to suit your dining area using South + English’s Kaleidoscope paintmatch program to select a perfectly fitting hue.…

IN A GRAND-BUT-HOMEY 1906 Victorian in Rye, New York, a kitchen renovation became a study in architectural restraint. That’s what Sarah Robertson of Studio Dearborn does best, always asking the question, “What’s right for this house?” before putting her signature style on a space. She looked to the rest of the home to guide the kitchen design, incorporating period-appropriate details such as leaded glass windows, beadboard, and fir floors. Newly installed painted beams connect seamlessly with the crown molding, while built-in, furniture-style cabinetry—like the dry bar and oak island—reflects the home’s original character. The space is timeless, intentional, and full of clever ideas.…

WHEN A TORONTO FAMILY enlisted local interior designer Ali Budd to renovate both the main floor and the second-floor primary suite of their five-bedroom home, they essentially offered her a blank canvas. According to Budd, the house was in dire need of a facelift—“The feeling was reminiscent of a 2000s-era mansion, and we wanted to create something with more depth to it,” she explains. The biggest challenge, she says, was at the heart of the home. Despite giving Budd carte blanche in the rest of the space, the homeowners did have one request for the kitchen: It had to include a bubble gum–pink range they had purchased prior to hiring Budd’s firm. This offered a starting point, but not one that made things easier. “This room’s scale paired with the…

IF ONE ROOM OFTEN serves as the exception to preserving a historic house’s original design, it’s the kitchen—where updating is not only welcome but necessary. In Santa Barbara, California, interior designer Kishani Perera and Tom Henson of Becker Henson Niksto Architects took modernization to heart when performing a gut reno of a 550-square-foot kitchen in a house from 1930. They kept the aesthetic intact by concealing contemporary additions (like a brand-new fridge) while adding early 20th-century design elements—including a vaulted ceiling and wooden counter stools—to play up the room’s age. “As a person who values history,” Perera says, “I love that this home is an integral part of Santa Barbara’s past.”…

KRYSTA GIBBONS DOES NOT HIDE her distaste for new builds, specifically those she calls “glass boxes”—out of sync homes that crop up in historic neighborhoods. As one of the principals of the Minneapolis-based Kipling House Interiors design team, Gibbons has made a career of helping clients coax charm from spaces that had none. Then, as she was about to embark upon a major renovation of her own home, a grand estate in her neighborhood was torn down, opening up six prime city lots for sale. As the market shifted, she realized she could secure a piece of this coveted real estate by selling her home and starting from scratch. The challenge: Could she redefine “new construction,” matching the neighboring 100-year-old homes so no one would ever know? To answer that…