Across The Pond

House with batten siding and gabled metal roof reflecting off a pond with wooden pier

Simple gabled house with stainless steel flue and stone chimney

Recessed front entry with covered porch and glassy french doors

Bright and airy foyer with rustic wood floors and double height ceiling

Catwalk with modern cable railing passing through double height foyer with vaulted ceilings

Bright and airy living room with double height vaulted ceilings

Primary bathroom with spacious shower, clawfoot tub, and separate vanities with inset cabinets

rimary bathroom with eclosed water closet, clawfoot tub, and separate vanities with inset cabinets

Luxury kitchen with inset cabinets and large butcher block island

Bright and spacious mudroom leading off off from kitchen with bench seating and counters

Walkway to garage shaded by trellis wrapped with creeping vines

Light and airy screen porch surrounded by a garden overlooking a forest

Chapel Hill, NC

General Contractor: Pomarico Construction

Photos: Marilyn Peryer

We encourage our clients to look for and share with us design ideas and images that exemplify the qualities and character of places which they would like to have in their homes. Across the Pond is a great example of this process. The owners had studied many house designs and had collected examples and images of places in which they would like to live. Through discussions, diagrams, and schematic design, we distilled the essence of their preferences regarding relation of building to site and overall organization as well as exterior and interior spatial qualities. We were gratified to receive a message from the owners twelve years after the house completed construction saying, “Thank you for giving us such a great house that…is especially photogenic, but most importantly…extremely livable.”