Kitchen and Dining

The kitchen showcases stainless steel counters created by Tyler, a metal fabricator. The greenery from the outdoors pours in through the large windows, creating connection between the interior and the exterior.

In the dining room, a vintage Danish teak table often doubles as Augustine's writing desk. The chairs are vintage Brooklyn school chairs, and the pendant light is IKEA.

Prioritizing their own furniture collection, the clients wanted only a half wall of wood shelves within the living space.

The couple's tastes were for the contemporary and industrial, including a kitchen system manufactured in Germany.

Throughout the home, the walls and floors feature the natural grain patterns of lacquered plywood. The Stokke Tripp Trapp chair in the dining room was Lizz’s when she was growing up in the 1980s while the two Steen Ostergaard chairs were a thrift store find, and Project Room designed the table.

The hood vent is finished in plaster, same as the fireplace. Ann especially likes the view from the island, through the library to the fire at the end of the living room.

The couple loves to cook and host, so the kitchen was designed to be sturdy—"I just didn't want anything to be precious,

The Lin Pendant by Muhly hangs over the island. The counters and backsplash are concrete.

One of Ann's favorite pieces is the George Kovac stainless steel pillar that lights up, found at a vintage store in San Antonio. "We leave it on at night, it has such a nice warm glow,