Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateīeautiful Phillip Jeffries vinyl woven sisal wallpaper and chandeliers covered in natural fiber add texture in the dining room. The kitchen got a dramatically new look, including painting dark cabinets white and adding gold hardware, then contrasting the lighter look with an island painted Sherwin-Williams “Black Fox,” a warm black with gray-brown undertones. A pair of its Strings Attached lounge chairs sit in the family room, while a pair of the company’s Ella lounge chairs sit opposite a smaller sofa in the formal living room at the front of the house. A benchlike piece straddles a backless, armless piece of the sectional, serving as an end table for drinks or even a quick game of cards or Scrabble.Ī NEW CHAPTER: Houston woman finds efficiency in River Oaks apartment with a viewįrom shopping for prior homes, Tiffany came with a favorite brand: Palecek, a northern California furniture maker known for using natural materials in more modern styles.
Two more sectional pieces serve as a coffee table, but they can also slide over to function as ottomans or to create chaise lounges. The room has a sectional with 12 feet of seating on each of two sides.
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In the huge family room, they added eyebrow arches to a pair of niches that flank the fireplace, as well as built-in cabinets of blond wood with doors that have a textured finish, plus floating wood shelves that hold photos, books and objets d’art.
Par Bengtsson photo/Styling by Walker Wright So the beautiful white oak wood floors needed to be refinished.Īn enormous sectional sofa with 12 feet of seating on each side brings cozy comfort to the family room. The house was well taken care of, but the prior owners had children and lived there for quite a while. The result is better than it would have been on its own.” “It’s better to have a client injecting art or bringing in a favorite light fixture, and it all gels. “The collaboration is what makes the project all that it can be,” Umansky said. And the combinations of Tiffany’s preferences and ideas from Umansky and Smith likely elevated the result.Ī MODERN UPDATE: Bellaire home near Texas Medical Center gets stunning modern makeover With Umansky’s team, they gave the entire house a California casual face-lift - and filled it with almost all new furniture, lighting and window treatments. Overall, I wanted a home that was very clean but calm and serene, and we hit all of that with the remodel.” “Then you take it up a notch and figure out what you really love. When you get your first home, you’re so happy with whatever it is,” Tiffany said.
Par Bengtsson photos/Styling by Walker Wright The stairwell got a contemporary makeover with a new iron rail in a sleek style. In fact, he noted that they reached out to Umansky and her staff - finding them online and through social media - as they were considering buying the house, to walk through the house with them and get their feedback on what could be changed up front. Myke was involved, too, sitting in on meetings with Shannon Smith and Laura Umansky of the Laura U Design Collective and making choices with his wife. So she now knows exactly how she wants her home to flow and what it needs to work for her family. In the past decade, they’ve moved four times, and from each move, she learned more about style, color and furniture brands. Her vision for their family’s home was informed by a lot of experience. Tiffany is working again as a human resources consultant. Tiffany left a job doing talent and organizational development at Silicon Valley tech companies to be a stay-home mom to her daughter, who is now 7 and has just finished second grade.
Tiffany, 43, is originally from San Jose, Calif., and Myke, 43 and a finance executive, is from California’s Bay Area. LIVING IN COLOR: A Katy homeowner once called her living room 'drab.' Now, a splash of color brightens the space. They preferred details done with a lighter hand and executed in a cleaner, more contemporary style. The Nguyens bought a 5,456-square-foot house in West University Place because it had good bones and was in a great location, but it was too traditional and too French.
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