Perry

We love this one. It’s playful and layered, and it earns its keep.

The floor sets the tone: a custom checkerboard laid out in two soft tones, a clean white and a warm taupe. For the walls, we leaned into contrast. The trim and ceiling carry a quiet off-white, while the walls and shiplap paneling go deep in a moody green. There’s shiplap detail behind the cabinets too, with functional hooks running along both sides of the room so everything has a place to land.

The real workhorse here is the sink, genuinely handy for coming in from gardening, dog walking, you name it. The cabinetry is a warm-toned wood. A wall-mounted bridge faucet in matte black sits over the sink, and a low-key semi-flushmount handles the ceiling. The hardware throughout is a dark, quiet finish.

One of the first rooms you walk into, and it doesn’t whisper. Tone-on-tone color holds the wainscot grounded and the walls moody. Overhead, a botanical wallpaper in green lands a graphic surprise. Playful and elegant in the same breath, the room sets the tone for the rest of the house.

Built for someone who actually cooks. Professional-grade appliances, long stretches of counter, and a butler’s pantry that absorbs the daily clutter so the main kitchen stays clean. The backsplash is a single slab of quartz that runs all the way up, so the work surface is also the visual surface.

Just off the kitchen, with windows on two sides. The light pulls in from two directions across the day, and the views run long. Small footprint, generous payoff.

Off-white runs from the kitchen into the nook across walls, trim, and ceiling, so the open plan reads as one calm, connected space. A simple pendant hangs in the middle, sized to anchor the table without competing with the windows.

Most of this home is broken into cozy, enclosed rooms made for one thing at a time. The great room is the exception. It sits in the most open part of the floor plan, opening visually into the kitchen across from it.

To keep the warmth of the smaller rooms even in this open space, we anchored it with a high-contrast fireplace flanked by warm wood cabinetry. The hearth becomes the room’s gravity. Sliding glass doors stack open to bring the yard right inside, and the inside right out.

The home’s quiet corner, color-drenched in a deep blue-black across walls, ceiling, and trim. Built-in shelving in dark wood, sized to hold a hefty book collection. Brass accents catch the dimmable lighting overhead, and solid hardwood holds the floor. Behind mullioned glass french doors, it’s a room you close yourself into when you mean to be left alone.

Small room, no hesitation. The whole thing leans hard into a dark academia mood.

The walls are wrapped in a botanical wallpaper, a dark ground with golden florals, set above wainscot paneling grounded in a pure black. Underfoot, a star-and-cross mosaic in dark tones carries the eye across the floor. We designed a custom vanity in a warm-toned wood that plays beautifully against all the brass in the room, topped with a marble-look quartz with warm veining.

The walls are wrapped in a deep, warm bronze that does so much of the heavy lifting here. To keep it from feeling heavy, we added tongue and groove white oak to the recessed tray ceiling. A bit of natural wood that brings in real warmth and texture, and softens the whole space overhead.

Sliding glass doors open straight out to a private deck off the bedroom. The room feels that much bigger with the doors stacked open, and there’s a quiet spot right outside for morning coffee or an evening wind-down.

A walk-in shower with a built-in bench takes one wall, a freestanding tub centered on a picture window takes the other. Two separate vanities, and a walk-in closet the size of a small room. Built for slow mornings that don’t get rushed.

Most laundry rooms get the leftovers. This one didn’t.

The floors do the heavy lifting: a graphic patterned tile that gives the room real personality from the ground up. We color-drenched the walls and ceiling in a deep, moody green for a tone-on-tone effect that’s rich and enveloping. The cabinetry sits a step softer in a grounded sage that holds its own against the dark.

A small fireclay farmhouse sink, with brass cabinet hardware that catches the light. A built-in steam cabinet handles steaming and dry cleaning right in the room.

A sauna built into the basement of the house, clad in cedar throughout, with a two-tier bench so you can sit high in the heat or lower out of it. The integrated heater is part of the look as much as the function.