Dining

Inside, bleached oak floors and ceilings frame simple white walls, lending a sense of brightness. In the dining room, a George Nakashima dining set is capped by a pendant light from Apparatus.

In the dining room, an old wheel was made into a window.

Meals with visiting guests can be shared around a Farmhouse Table by Ecology surrounded by a pair of Utility Stools from Schoolhouse.

The couple use their prefabricated structure as a fully indecent guest suite thanks to its private bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. It’s also a showroom of sorts for their new company Steel Hut, which sells plan sets for residential Quonset huts in partnership with Skylab Architecture.

The dining room features a custom table surrounded by chairs from En Gold.

“I wanted you to come into a place that was inviting, but with a muted warmth,” says Kara of the decision to immerse the dining room in Farrow & Ball’s Green Smoke, including walls, ceiling, cabinetry, and fireplace, the latter with a relocated mantel. The table is a 17th C. Spanish Walnut Trestle Rectangular Dining Table via Restoration Hardware, surrounded by Ceremonie Green Mohair dining chairs by Athena Calderone, from Crate&Barrel. The Tambor Buffet, beneath windows that Seamus relocated from elsewhere in the house, is from Anthropologie.

A Big Moon table by James Mitchell Studio is surrounded by Nakashima straight-back chairs.

"I like coming home to a place that feels like a cabin. The house is not overstated—it lives very simply. It’s a house you can camp out in,” continues Erik.

Every space, including the living and dining sections seen here, has “furniture, objects and artworks that bring us memories,” says Smud. The bench, coffee tables, and dining table are by the late Alejandro Sticotti.

The open-plan living-and-dining rooms display oak flooring and modernist furniture pieces.

In the dining area, a Noguchi Akari 21A pendant hangs above chairs and a table found at a thrift store.