Stately home in the suburbs just west of Boston. This home was done on a grand scale using rich colors and subtle textures and patterns. Photographed By: Gordon Beall

Kitchen/Breakfast Room: Robert Schwartz and Karen Williams for St Charles Photo by: Rikki Snyder © 2012 Houzz

Karyn Millet Photography

Kitchen banquette seen from dining room. Brooklyn Heights brownstone renovation by Ben Herzog, Architect in conjunction with designer Elizabeth Cooke-King. Photo by Michael Lee.

Photos by Michael J. Lee Photography

The owner's buoyant personality, own design work, and extensive art collection inspire the renovation and addition to this Potrero Hill home. Of course, the dramatic views of the city from the site, which is open on three sides, contribute their fare share to the project's success as well. Here, we worked specifically to "curate" the natural light — using it to draw people up and through the space, to focus attention on the collection of art objects, and to propel them back out to panoramic views of the city beyond. As in all of our work, we were strategic in the use of resources, maintaining the original character of the front of the home, while subtly coaxing more character out of materials, such as simple exterior siding, at the rear Photography: Matthew Millman

Nestled between multiple stands of Live Oak trees, the Westlake Residence is a contemporary Texas Hill Country home. The house is designed to accommodate the entire family, yet flexible in its design to be able to scale down into living only in 2,200 square feet when the children leave in several years. The home includes many state-of-the-art green features and multiple flex spaces capable of hosting large gatherings or small, intimate groups. The flow and design of the home provides for privacy from surrounding properties and streets, as well as to focus all of the entertaining to the center of the home. Finished in late 2006, the home features Icynene insulation, cork floors and thermal chimneys to exit warm air in the expansive family room. Photography by Allison Cartwright

21st Century Bungalow-Style Home - Living room with 30 foot ceilings featuring a custom designed tiled fireplace with engineered stone hearth and custom mantle flanked by custom shelving and entertainment unit that enhances the board-and-baton style wall treatment

Scandinavian furniture and an antique chandelier work perfectly in this blue and white Nordic style kitchen. Photo: Magdalena Plewa-Ould

Our client initially asked us to assist with selecting materials and designing a guest bath for their new Tucson home. Our scope of work progressively expanded into interior architecture and detailing, including the kitchen, baths, fireplaces, stair, custom millwork, doors, guardrails, and lighting for the residence – essentially everything except the furniture. The home is loosely defined by a series of thick, parallel walls supporting planar roof elements floating above the desert floor. Our approach was to not only reinforce the general intentions of the architecture but to more clearly articulate its meaning. We began by adopting a limited palette of desert neutrals, providing continuity to the uniquely differentiated spaces. Much of the detailing shares a common vocabulary, while numerous objects (such as the elements of the master bath – each operating on their own terms) coalesce comfortably in the rich compositional language. Photo credit: William Lesch

The living room, dining area and kitchen all blend together, in an artists' loft-style one-big-room / room without walls design that was popular in mid-century modern architecture. One solution: create small groupings of furniture within the larger space. An original Wassily chair (designed by Marcel Breuer) and Barcelona chair (designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) and an Eames tulip table make an intimate setting next to the fireplace. Hanging on the fireplace wall is a Mark Bennett print designed for Wirsching, who is a fan of the old TV series, I Dream of Jeannie. Bennett is a world-recognized contemporary artist who is a friend of Hoffman and Wirsching from L.A.

Exterior - photos by Andrew Waits Interior - photos by Roger Turk - Northlight Photography

Peter Aaron

Photo Credit: Coles Hairston