Shingle-Style Blues
This custom home exterior blends contemporary simplicity with traditional charm. Classic white trim and brick, a pop of color, and warm wood tones create timeless and welcoming curb appeal. By mixing traditional and contemporary details and finishes throughout, this home is cosy and inviting, yet open and bright. The dark finishes of the stair offers a dramatic pop at the center of the house, while its position allows for efficient and creative uses of the spaces surrounding it, including a library passage tucked behind the stair and a secret playhouse behind and under the basement landing.
Open-concept living was essential to this young family, but defining the individual spaces keeps the layout balanced and the scale comfortable. The dark blue-gray kitchen is open to, yet visually separated from the living room.
This “secret playhouse” fills the space behind and under the stairs
At the stair landing, a tiny child-sized door is hidden within the shiplap wall to access the kids’ space beyond. A sturdy ladder within (and a few secret passages to the winding space below the stair) offers opportunities for endless imagination play plus lots of cozy nooks for board games and reading time.
