This family opted for white marble, beige walls, and a custom ceiling and we love how it came out!

C garibaldi photography

Traditional living room with updated finishes and furniture.

This design plan reflects this client's elegant, yet warm style sensibilities with rich textures and refined accents. A subtle and soothing color palette was chosen to enhance the connection between the rooms of the home.

Custom designed TV display, Faux wood beams, Pottery Barn Dovie Rug, Bassett sectional and Lori ottoman w/ trays.

Design by Brehm Architects

The goal of this design was to upgrade the function and style of the kitchen and integrate with the family room space in a dramatic way. Columns and wainscot paneling trail from the kitchen to envelope the family area and allow this open space to function cohesively.

This New Build sits on a stunning body of water and has a unique quality about the space itself. While it has qualities of a more contemporary style with the vast open space, the client’s style was not necessarily contemporary by nature. Since most of the main floor was integrated into one large area the approach for furnishings and fabrics could not be overly traditional. I combined some geometric patterns with a transitional frame to ensure the space was not too overdone. The result is a current yet timeless look that will be in style for years to come.

Jamee Parish Architects, LLC (Designed while working at RTA Studio)

The Atherton House is a family compound for a professional couple in the tech industry, and their two teenage children. After living in Singapore, then Hong Kong, and building homes there, they looked forward to continuing their search for a new place to start a life and set down roots. The site is located on Atherton Avenue on a flat, 1 acre lot. The neighboring lots are of a similar size, and are filled with mature planting and gardens. The brief on this site was to create a house that would comfortably accommodate the busy lives of each of the family members, as well as provide opportunities for wonder and awe. Views on the site are internal. Our goal was to create an indoor- outdoor home that embraced the benign California climate. The building was conceived as a classic “H” plan with two wings attached by a double height entertaining space. The “H” shape allows for alcoves of the yard to be embraced by the mass of the building, creating different types of exterior space. The two wings of the home provide some sense of enclosure and privacy along the side property lines. The south wing contains three bedroom suites at the second level, as well as laundry. At the first level there is a guest suite facing east, powder room and a Library facing west. The north wing is entirely given over to the Primary suite at the top level, including the main bedroom, dressing and bathroom. The bedroom opens out to a roof terrace to the west, overlooking a pool and courtyard below. At the ground floor, the north wing contains the family room, kitchen and dining room. The family room and dining room each have pocketing sliding glass doors that dissolve the boundary between inside and outside. Connecting the wings is a double high living space meant to be comfortable, delightful and awe-inspiring. A custom fabricated two story circular stair of steel and glass connects the upper level to the main level, and down to the basement “lounge” below. An acrylic and steel bridge begins near one end of the stair landing and flies 40 feet to the children’s bedroom wing. People going about their day moving through the stair and bridge become both observed and observer. The front (EAST) wall is the all important receiving place for guests and family alike. There the interplay between yin and yang, weathering steel and the mature olive tree, empower the entrance. Most other materials are white and pure. The mechanical systems are efficiently combined hydronic heating and cooling, with no forced air required.

Michael Hunter Photography

Great Room. The Sater Design Collection's luxury, French Country home plan "Belcourt" (Plan #6583). http://saterdesign.com/product/bel-court/

Vista del salone con in primo piano la libreria e la volta affrescata

Photo by Ron Rosenswig