PUBLISHED PROJECTS
NEW ENGLAND HOME / NOVEMBER 2021
HIGHER GROUND
A design team proves that solid surfaces can add just as much warmth as soft furnishings.
Designer Paula Daher took her clients on a field trip to Cumar in Everett, Massachusetts, before the couple even began pondering a color palette for their new Boston high-rise. Daher had good reason for beginning the design process at the renowned stone fabricator. “The wife was very concerned about living in a high-rise,” she explains. “she wanted to feel a connection to the earth-to feel grounded. >
NEW ENGLAND HOME / SEPTEMBER 2021
KITCHENS WE LOVE
Hidden Joys For a family of five with young children, a hyper-functional kitchen in their newly constructed Cambridge, Massachusetts, house was a must. At the end of a long, open-plan area that includes a dining room and library, the kitchen needed to act as a family hub. “We thought a lot about how we would use this space,” says Elana Rudiger of Elana Rudiger Interior Design. >
Heart of the Home Built in the style of an old Adirondacks lodge, the kitchen in this New Hampshire lake house was sited to be right in the center of the action, between the dining and family areas and a screened-in porch. “It’s right at the knuckle of things,” says architect John Battle, principal and owner of Battle Associates Architects, who worked with Beyond the Garden interior designer and his spouse, Janice Battle. >
OUT OF THE BLUE
A Modern Lake House Defies Convention by Embracing its Environment The brother and sister who approached architect Marcus Gleysteen for ideas designing their shared retreat on New Hampshire’s Lake Sunapee hadn’t thought much about this blue-water, white-water thing before. >
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST ONLINE / MARCH 2020
A Modern Boston Carriage House That Maintains Its Historic Charm
Boston’s intimate Beacon Hill is home to carriage houses that date to the 1800s (most, on cobbled streets that sparkle with gas lamps). This one, featuring design from LTK Interiors’ Lisa Kreiling, has been modernized for its relaxed residents. Still, it continues to embrace its historic bones in its decorative choices, which are smart and understated. “I was thinking ‘stable’ with some wood planking, some regular tongue and groove,” says Kreiling. “It’s rich and elegant with dark, mixed-width boards—but, not farmhouse.” >
BOSTON HOME MAGAZINE / WINTER 2018
Best of Boston Home 2018
The team at Kochman Reidt + Haigh knows better than anybody that successful cabinetry design relies on so much more than just good looks. Equal parts beautiful and functional, the custom pieces created and installed by this decades-old firm run the gamut from elevated Shaker-style numbers with ergonomic hardware to innovative floor-to-ceiling models boasting pull-out drawers and frosted glass. >
NEW ENGLAND HOME / SEPT - OCT 2017
A Boston Home Gets a Refined Renovation
A nineteenth-century home takes on a new air of quiet sophistication that matches its owners’ modern sensibilities and showcases their collection of contemporary art. Gorgeous nineteenth-century houses line up elbow to elbow in this tony part of Boston. Trees grown thick in the waist dot small manicured lawns, and hydrangeas wave around stone foundations that have heard the rumble of horse-drawn wagons. This three-story beauty tucked behind a tidy picket fence exudes the stateliness so characteristic of its neighborhood. Project supervisor Dan McLaughlin of S+H Construction has witnessed two full-throttle transformations of the house. >
BOSTON HOME MAGAZINE / FALL 2017
Embrace Color
White kitchens are a design tradition, making the unexpected black-and-green palette in this stunning Concord space—designed by Dewing Schmid Kearns Architects + Planners—all the more daring. “I’m not afraid if you’re not afraid,” project manager Michelle Ouellette recalls telling her clients. The bespoke color selections set the tone for the rest of the kitchen, which boasts a slew of custom features. >
CAPE COD HOME / SUMMER 2017
Living at Land’s End
Ralph Cataldo gets creative as he crafts an awe-inspiring home perched on Cuttyhunk Island. “When you build a house on an island 17 miles out to sea,” says Ralph Cataldo, president of Cataldo Custom Builders, “you need workers who are warriors.” Though one may imagine Cuttyhunk as kind of an extension of the Cape, Cataldo notes that the climate is dramatically different from the mainland, especially in terms of fog, wind and cold. >
INTERIOR DESIGN / MAY 2015
IIDA Award Winner: HACIN + ASSOCIATES
Cities are clogged with hipsters trying to forget childhood in the burbs. But a pair of Boston executives, craving more space for their own young family, went in the opposite direction. In the leafy bedroom community of Newton, Massachusetts, the two men bought a raggedy brick Tudor built nearly a century ago—for a wildly different lifestyle. “There were a lot of little rooms in the wrong places,” architect David Hacin explains. >
ROB REPORT HOME & STYLE / MAR - APR 2015
Positively Beaming
An architect’s focus on light transforms a property into a shining example for indoor/outdoor living Brian Hemingway is sensitive to light in the best way possible. The Vancouver, British Columbia–based architect wanted this 22,000-square-foot home near Boston to glow like a lantern at night, and he attained that goal on behalf of the homeowners, without a doubt (Brian Hemingway Design, Flavin Architects, Pembrooke & Ives, KR+H Cabinetmakers kitchen and cabinetry in rooms throughout the home). >
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST / FEBRUARY 2015
Second Act
A noble yet faded home blessed with good bones and ripe for reincarnation is standard design-magazine fare. But the Victorian townhouse in Boston that was recently revitalized by architect Dell Mitchell and interior decorators Heather Wells and Bruce Fox is anything but common (KR+H Cabinetmakers kitchen). >