Color, texture, and custom detail, down to the last pool cue, turned three disconnected spaces into somewhere that receives you.
This residence in Sands Point arrived with good bones and an unsolved problem. The home was large, contemporary, and well-built, but the foyer, the billiards room, and the living room existed as separate facts rather than a sequence. Walking in felt like standing in a space that hadn’t decided what it wanted to be yet. The volume was there. The warmth was not.
The structure couldn’t change. The ceiling heights were fixed, the walls were where they were, and the floor plan wasn’t moving. Which meant everything that needed to happen had to happen through material, color, and the kind of custom work that leaves no detail unresolved. Color drenching in the billiards room, a deep, enveloping gray applied to walls, millwork, and ceiling alike, collapsed the scale into something intimate. Textiles and rugs absorbed what the hard surfaces had been throwing back. Lighting was designed for the room, not selected for it.
The custom millwork throughout was the connective tissue. Built-in banquette seating, wall paneling, a bespoke cue rack with oak shelving. Each piece resolved something the architecture had left open. Nothing was sourced off the shelf. The result is a space where every element feels inevitable, as if it could only have been this way.
The moment it was right was hard to pinpoint and easy to feel. The billiards room, which had read as a cold, oversized box, now pulls you in. The foyer announces the home correctly, grand in scale, warm in register, and the living room beyond receives you with pink velvet sofas, a dark marble fireplace, and a chandelier that earns its place in the volume above it. You move through the sequence and the house wraps around you. That was always the ask. It just needed someone to hear it.
What we heard
The house was already beautiful. It just didn’t know how to welcome anyone yet; the scale was speaking, but not saying anything worth feeling.
Materials
Color-drenched paint, custom millwork, textiles and performance fabric, hand-knotted rugs, white oak, custom lighting, dark marble
What we heard
The house was already beautiful. It just didn’t know how to welcome anyone yet; the scale was speaking, but not saying anything worth feeling.
This residence in Sands Point arrived with good bones and an unsolved problem. The home was large, contemporary, and well-built, but the foyer, the billiards room, and the living room existed as separate facts rather than a sequence. Walking in felt like standing in a space that hadn’t decided what it wanted to be yet. The volume was there. The warmth was not.
The structure couldn’t change. The ceiling heights were fixed, the walls were where they were, and the floor plan wasn’t moving. Which meant everything that needed to happen had to happen through material, color, and the kind of custom work that leaves no detail unresolved. Color drenching in the billiards room, a deep, enveloping gray applied to walls, millwork, and ceiling alike, collapsed the scale into something intimate. Textiles and rugs absorbed what the hard surfaces had been throwing back. Lighting was designed for the room, not selected for it.
The custom millwork throughout was the connective tissue. Built-in banquette seating, wall paneling, a bespoke cue rack with oak shelving. Each piece resolved something the architecture had left open. Nothing was sourced off the shelf. The result is a space where every element feels inevitable, as if it could only have been this way.
The moment it was right was hard to pinpoint and easy to feel. The billiards room, which had read as a cold, oversized box, now pulls you in. The foyer announces the home correctly, grand in scale, warm in register, and the living room beyond receives you with pink velvet sofas, a dark marble fireplace, and a chandelier that earns its place in the volume above it. You move through the sequence and the house wraps around you. That was always the ask. It just needed someone to hear it.
