Living

Stairs lead from the entry to the upper level with the bedrooms. The wood-paneled, vaulted ceiling adds warmth to the double-height space.

We achieved making this home feel much larger than 2100sqft by making using a two story ceiling height in the main area of the home.

We achieved making this home feel much larger than 2100sqft by making using a two story ceiling height in the main area of the home.

Murphy took a completely different approach to the color and material palette in the second house. “We wanted to show that with very small changes, you can have a totally different space, and there's a lot of potential in these little houses,” says Murphy. Custom shelving, made of stained oak and metal, anchors one end of the living room, with an armchair from Southwood Home.

Conceived and developed by Arctic explorer Børge Ousland, these award-winning waterfront cabins are located on Manshausen Island, Norway.

On the first storey, a seat is extruded into a platform that allows for ad-hoc, multipurpose use.

Ceiling-mounted fixtures tend to be used to provide ambient light in a room as opposed to accent or task lighting because they provide more general, dispersed lighting.

“They were the lightest possible way to support the roof,” says Anton of the raw steel rafter ties in the newly vaulted living room. It’s a detail they’d first used in their ADU several years before.

Sunlight pours into all sides of the interior, lending living spaces the scientifically proven benefits of increased exposure to natural light.

Throughout the house, the architects oriented windows to capture views of the large oak trees on the property.

In the dining area, a 96-inch Run table from Emeco is lined with 611 chairs from Artek. Cielo pendants by Pablo Designs hang overhead while a piano from Steinway & Sons sits in the background.

The team removed the dropped ceiling and attic above to expose the tongue-and-groove paneling and the supports at the roof. A Swan Chair by Fritz Hansen sits with the client’s sofa and USM media cabinet.

In the study, an Anglepoise lamp complements the custom drapes by Moon Fabrics.

The couple purchased the living room’s H.W. Klein chairs with the house. Another existing piece was the mezzanine’s daybed, designed by Peter Hvidt and Orlando Mølgaard Nielsen. An original floating staircase leads to the mezzanine and then up to the second floor. The open, straight-forward spaces speak to one of Christian’s guiding principles: “Simplicity is the key,” he says.

The living area—or “dance floor,” as the Womersley family called it—has an expansive feel, thanks to high ceilings and full-length windows.

Of Pedersen’s trusses, Halsey adds, “That was Don’s genius move and why you can have thirteen-foot-high walls of glass.” The paint color is Burning Tomato by Dunn-Edwards.

One side of the living room is anchored by the Solna cabinet from Hedge House, which syncs nicely with the rattan and brass coffee table, the Paloma from Hawkins NY.