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RENOVATING THIS 1950 neoclassical ranch house on a large lot in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee, came with its share of unique challenges. Among them were zoning regulations that prevented expansion of the 5,132-square-foot home. For Erin Cypress, the project’s architect from Pfeffer Torode Architecture, that meant taking the house down to the studs, to rid it of “that old, heavy, ranch-hallway aesthetic.” She needed flexibility to design a welcoming home for her artist client, who splits her time between New York and Nashville. Cypress fully redesigned the kitchen and, evoking houses in the past, added two gathering spaces adjoining it—a “keeping room,” or casual living space, and an “orangery,” or sunroom. EASY, ELEGANT ENTERTAINING A kitchen that invited togetherness and socializing was a priority for the homeowner, whose three…

Time-worn but full of potential, a 200-year-old parsonage is coaxed into gentle splendor. “A lot of my work is designing new buildings to look and feel old,” Pentreath says. “I like old houses because they are imperfect.” SEEN THROUGHOUT HIS WORK at the London-based Ben Pentreath Ltd studios is the classical design and decoration informing the Englishman’s master planning of commercial projects—and that includes work on Poundbury, a settlement that weaves traditional architecture and the New Urbanist philosophy, and which was the brainchild of the current King of England. He is also an interior designer and cofounder of the online home goods shop Penreath & Hall. His latest book, An English Vision, debuted in September. It’s a thick, glossy volume that explores more than two decades of Pentreath’s work and…

THE TRADITIONAL-STYLE HOUSE, new construction set on 22 acres overlooking a freshwater lake in Greenwich, Connecticut, is so in sync with its grounds that it looks as though they grew up together. • That’s exactly how Janice Parker Landscape Architects planned it. • “Our job as landscape architects was to create a harmonious whole composed from picturesquely positioned garden spaces, or rooms,” says Janice Parker RLA, ASLA, the principal and founder of the Greenwich firm that bears her name. Plants and color schemes selected for the gardens are in sync with the vocabulary and material palette inspired by the architecture. Horticultural focal points are positioned in each garden room. “This was an opportunity to create a classical garden design using all the classical principles—axial lines, balance, and symmetry without necessarily…

ONCE HOME TO A 1940S COTTAGE, a two-acre lot on the western edge of the coveted Buckhead neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, is now a secluded residential compound. As is true of neighboring homes, this one is barely visible from the street, in part because of its natural setting and in part because of a ready collaboration between the architect and landscape architect. “The clients asked me to design a house—they had renovated another home and now wanted something more accustomed to the times,” explains Tim Adams, founding partner at Atlanta’s T.S. Adams Studio, Architects. “We talked about, stylistically, how they lived as a family, to get an understanding for the basis of the design.” Adams’s landscape architect of choice, Alec Michaelides, is the principal at Atlanta-based Land Plus Associates. He’d…

CLASSIC KITCHENS ARCHITECT’S KITCHEN page 26 ARCHITECT J.E. Schram Architect jeschram.com BUILDER Case Builders LLC | Matt Kurrle 443-829-0951 CABINETRY Crown Point Cabinetry crown-point.com HARDWARE Classic Brass classic-brass.com MILLWORK Kuiken Brothers kuikenbrothers.com HANGING SHELVES Palmer Industries palmerindustries.com DECORATIVE LIGHTING The Urban Electric Co. (custom finished) urbanelectric.com TASK LIGHTING Visual Comfort & Co. visualcomfort.com RANGE BlueStar Cooking (custom finished) bluestarcooking.com HOOD Kelly Walker, Artstar Custom Paintworks (custom lime plastered) artstarcustompaintworks.com TILE Tiles of Ezra (custom zellige tile in subway shape) tilesofezra.com PLUMBING Shaws of Darwen sink; Waterstone Co. fixtures shawsofdarwen.com waterstoneco.com WALLPAPER Coordonné coordonne.com DECORATIVE TOWEL HARDWARE Urban Archaeology & deVOL urbanarchaeology.com devolkitchens.com WALLPAPER Coordonné coordonne.com LIGHTING CONTROL Caseta Wireless by Lutron (custom switches) casetawireless.com DOORBELL ElectraChime electrachime.com DISHWARE Sue Pryke Ceramics suepryke.com BAKEWARE Heirloom Home & Studio heirloomhomeandstudio.com ART Wendy…

AS AN ARCHITECT, Everett Schramm spends his days designing beautiful homes for clients. When he purchased his own 1928 Colonial Revival cottage in Baltimore, Maryland, he got the chance to try out some of his favorite design ideas that hadn’t made it into clients’ homes. The kitchen in his 1,900-square-foot house was dark, poorly laid out, and average. It called for an overhaul. Schramm jumped at the chance to showcase how much can be done in trans-=forming a small kitchen into a functional and inspiring space. “Most people don’t invest in good, custom kitchens at this scale,” he says. “So, I wanted to prove it’s actually more important, when the room is small, to invest in a custom kitchen because that lets you maximize every inch of space.” For example,…

THE STORIED Nathan Appleton residence, a National Historic Landmark in the Boston neighborhood of Beacon Hill, has a rich history. One of a pair of twin brick townhouses, the four-story residence was built in 1821 for textile manufacturer and U.S. Representative Nathan Appleton, a key financial figure in the industrialization of New England. In 1843, the house was the site of the wedding of his daughter Frances to the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Earlier, the land had been owned by painter John Singleton Copley, who died in 1815. Dan Gordon Landscape Architects was called upon to create three related yet distinctly different gardens that respect the history of the property and enhance its use by today’s 21st-century inhabitants. “From the outset, our goal was to renovate the property for contemporary…

The art of recreating a historic style in the here and now is just that, an art. It requires a passion for architectural detail combined with an eagerness to deliver modern amenities in a character-forward package. This high degree of difficulty results in some of the country’s most arresting and consequential residences. One such home is a stately country estate in northern Virginia. “The clients love all things French, so the kernel of a French Provincial home was with us from the very beginning,” says Gregory Palmer, senior principal at Harrison Design, based in Atlanta, Georgia. “This type comes with a rich vocabulary of precedent.” The architectural style endured quite a while, with such details as the variety of stone and the shutter color differing by region. In the U.S.,…