Simple Home(Revisited)

Whether you are designing an iphone or a country home, keeping it simple is harder than it looks.  Instead of relying on flash and dash, a simple design relies on substance, proportion, and details.  Most people cannot tell exactly what is wrong with a home when the proportions are off, but they know a beautiful home when they see it and good proportions are always the key. In the eighteenth century, nails and bricks, as well as most [...]

By |2014-06-06T13:31:08-04:00January 7th, 2014|Categories: Design|Tags: , , , |1 Comment

Simple Home

Whether you are designing an iphone or a country home, keeping it simple is harder than it looks.  Instead of relying on flash and dash, a simple design relies on substance, proportion, and details.  Most people cannot tell exactly what is wrong with a home when the proportions are off, but they know a beautiful home when they see it and good proportions are always the key. In the eighteenth century, nails and bricks, as well as most other elements [...]

By |2010-06-03T13:28:03-04:00January 10th, 2010|Categories: Design, New Homes|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Farmhouse Modern

Many of our clients own old farm houses and love the way they fit into the countryside of the Northeast. These same clients want the interior of their homes to be brighter and more modern than the original farm house. Recently we renovated a large kitchen and added a bright sun room to an 1800s farm house in Litchfield County, Connecticut. The kitchen cabinets were frameless and painted white with simple but elegant details offsetting the extra thick Carrara marble [...]

By |2010-06-03T13:59:04-04:00December 31st, 2008|Categories: Design, Renovations|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

More Than A Garage

Today’s garage, in some ways, is simply an update of the nineteenth century carriage house. Compared to today, those structures seemed more important and therefore more time was taken for planning both the look of the buildings and their relationship to the home. Often the carriage house was part of a barn or stable and occasionally included living quarters above. I consider the character and placement of a freestanding garage as important as locating the house on the property since [...]

By |2010-06-03T14:14:37-04:00March 4th, 2008|Categories: Accessory Buildings, Design|Tags: , , |1 Comment
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