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Modern updates add to home’s charm
Basic slate-shingle roof with pitched and arched rooflines accents this two-story house with copper downspouts and gutters and accented by stone and wrought-iron with leaded-glass windows throughout. Created in 1931, the two-tale residence has all the initial charm, and the initial woodwork has been refinished and preserved. Stated for $216,000 by eXp Realty, the brick residence at 1132 Amherst Place has about 3,200 sq. toes of living room, together with the completed relatives room in the basement. Situated inside of the historic College Row community of Dayton, the residence includes a two-auto heated garage with an insulated doorway set up in 2017, a backyard paver-brick patio, a storage drop and…
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See How a Leafy and Lush Home Got Infused With Old World Charm | Architectural Digest
When it came to her own family’s lush and leafy oasis in Venice, Los Angeles–based designer Kate Driver started off, surprisingly, by abandoning her aesthetic roots. In September 2016, she and her husband spontaneously abandoned their renting life—and Driver’s long-held dream of owning an “old house with character,” not unlike the Georgian-style homes of her native Atlanta—to dive head-first into owning a new-build home with no real architectural soul to speak of. “But when we walked through, it felt like no place we had ever been before, like a tropical wonderland,” Driver, the founder of the interior design studio West Haddon Hall, says of the home’s soaring windows and proliferation…
