Private Client
Suburban Boston
1994
2,500 sf
Goals
- Create an oasis of modern living in an historic home.
Challenges
- Create spaces that respond to modern needs and style, while retaining some classical elements and employing a bold color palette.
- Develop a design within a budget appropriate to the home and the neighborhood.
Design Response
- Created openings between rooms to connect spaces to allow a contemporary flow between living, music and dining areas, while maintaining the form and proportion of each space.
- Linked movement to views and to the experience of a sequence of spaces in which the destination is often in sight, but the path is not straight.
- Employed niches, lighting, color, and half-height columns to create a language that defines spatial areas, and establishes a vocabulary of shapes, linking elements from interior cabinets to exterior windows.
- Elevated standard lumber yard components – catalog windows and doors, flooring, cabinetry, and hardware – by rigorously regulating lines and proportions and treating the elements like furniture, turning the everyday into something quite special.
