Thank you for being patient and waiting 5 days for the rest of the tour of this shingle home. This home was a collaboration between Steve and his friend Paul Morrow. Paul is one of the best general contractors in the city. His company, Morrow and Morrow builds custom homes as well as homes for sale. Since there was no client, Paul and Steve selected all of the finishes, hardware and lighting. The home was decorated by a staging company when the house was for sale.
There is nothing I like more than a traditional shingle home with white trim and shutters. The stone on the bottom of the facade as well as on the pillars of the fence is called High Desert.
I like this image of the three carriage garage doors and the glass room with the cupola.
This image gives you a sense of the space as you enter the home. The Madagascar grass cloth on the entry walls really warms up the space.
The paneled wainscot provides scale.
This home has a very open floor plan. The family room is open to the kitchen and entry. It is a large space broken up into two different seating areas.
Here's another image of the family room looking towards the fireplace as well
as the covered back porch. The wall of french doors allows the light to stream into the room. Book cases are lit with library lights.
School house ceiling fixtures illuminate the room as well as the white painted tin ceiling tiles. Two industrial pendants from Circa lighting are hung over the center island.
The island has a butcher block top with a gray granite sink and surround. The bridge faucet is by Rohl.
A view of the kitchen shows the two refrigerators, one with a cork board paneled front and the other with the chalk board paneled front. Steve designed the cabinets so that they feel like furniture pieces. The two hutches to the left have dark stained counter tops. The other counters are Calacutta slab.
Two wine refrigerators are on the bottom of the back hutch.
The gray granite looks beautiful with the stainless Wolf oven.
The breakfast area has a lovely view of the back yard.
On the side of the kitchen is the doorway to the mud room. The floor is multi colored blue stone.
The dutch door opens to the back yard.
There are two rooms on the other side of the family room. This sitting room is off of the entry in the front of the house.
I love windows when they go down almost to the floor.
The powder room is on this side of the home as well. The wall paper above the bead board wainscot is from Farrow and Ball.
Behind the sitting room is the alder paneled library.
Let's go upstairs...
Book shelves line one side of the second story entry. The large sky light makes sure that the entry is always sunny and inviting.
A view of the entry hall looking towards the front Palladian window.
Upstairs, there are several children's rooms...
and bathrooms with tiled wainscot.
And of course my favorite glass room above the garage. I am not too fond of the furnishings, but I can imagine designing a wonderful art studio here....
If we walk back to the stairway, we can enter the master bedroom suite.
I love the white paneled ceiling.
and the Calacutta marble fireplace. with the bookshelves on either side.
Off of the master bedroom is a small sitting room...
I have shown this bathroom in a previous post, but I felt it had to be shown again as part of the tour. It's so pretty!
A view of the doors with transoms above.
The shower is Thassos marble.
The man's paneled bathroom with a Crema Marfil shower and floor with brown marble mosaic accents.
He also has a dark paneled closet.
The position of the pool allows for a nice grassy yard.
Next to the pool is an outdoor fireplace and kitchen, perfect for our warm California weather!
images via Morrow and Morrow and Giannetti Architecture and Interiors.
Have a wonderful day!
xo
Brooke
