David Papazian

2012 META Gold Award: Residential Kitchen over $120,000 NARI Silicon Valley Chapter

An accomplished potter and her husband own this Vineyard Haven summer house. Gil Walsh worked with the couple to build the house’s décor around the wife’s artistic aesthetic and her pottery collection. (She has a pottery shed (studio) with a kiln). They wanted their summer home to be a relaxing home for their family and friends. The main entrance to this home leads directly to the living room, which spans the width of the house, from the small entry foyer to the oceanfront porch. Opposite the living room behind the fireplace is a combined kitchen and dining space. All the colors that were selected throughout the home are the organic colors she (the owner) uses in her pottery. (The architect was Patrick Ahearn).

Photo by Karyn Millet In the family room is a pair of pony benches from Therien.

The complete gutting of a downtown townhouse allowed us radically open up the interior, horizontally and vertically. Continuous maple floors, cantilevered stair treads and sky-lit walls create large open spaces. Glass floors create dramatic diagonal views through tall upstairs windows. The floating cabinets are under lit to emphasize the open nature of the space, with clean lines, simple countertops and minimal hardware reinforcing a peaceful sense of cleanliness and purity. Deeply recessed windows and lightly stained vertical cedar siding help to reinterpret a ubiquitous building form. Photos by Bruce Schneider

ARCHITEM Wolff Shapiro Kuskowski architectes, photo by Drew Hadley

wood barn doors, double barn doors, narrow coffee table, built in cabinets, custom home, custom made, leather furniture, den, mountain home, natural materials, rustic wood

Dallas & Harris Photography

David O. Marlow

Ryann Ford

Patrick Coulie

Peter Venderwarker