First Look

The house is small so, no grand entrance instead I used more graphic and color to give it some impact. Notice the door leading into the kitchen actually has hand woven bronze screening

I widened and raised the doorways to give a more open feeling to the house.

This desk is in the corner of the living room and is made of vellum and walnut. The chair is from the 1930’s

During the renovation I decided to eliminate the small windows at the end of the room

After the windows were removed it left a cleaner and more interesting space

This is what it looks like now with the stone fireplace

As much as I love doing draperies in a client’s house I decided in my house to keep it simple and use only roman shades on the first floor

I decided to use only brown and ivory in the living room because it’s a small room, only 13’ wide and 18’ long, so I continued the graphic look of the entrance hall

The dining room is almost a perfect square and has beautiful light in it. The floors are oak and original to the house

The chairs and the light fixture are both Swedish Art Deco. The cabinet is a new piece I found in which I cut the legs off and changed the hardware

This étagère in the dining room is one of a pair made out of steel and walnut and holds my vast collection of creamware and iron stoneware. The étagère is part of the furniture collection I designed for Salvations

The kitchen is the room that had the most dramatic and costly renovation, moving the door, putting new floors down and replacing windows

The finished kitchen has a minimal look to it with one floating shelf that runs around the entire kitchen, a gray painted floor and an industrial table that I use as an island

One of the things that I really love about my house is that I have a large screen porch, 10’ wide by 20’ long. I am a designer that never uses the color black but just felt like the color was right for the space. I like the fresh look of black, khaki and ivory striped fabric.