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Some home buyers look for particular features in a prospective new home – a finished basement, say, or a large kitchen. Kristi Lane was more specific when she went house-shopping 18 months ago. She wanted a house designed by Frederick “Bud” Hyland.
Lane and her husband had looked at several Bud Hyland-designed houses, and found this 47-year-old house (now 64-year-old) that was in great shape, and a true period piece including four-inch thick white shag carpet. The Lanes’ 3,700-square-foot house, sited on a lushly wooded 1.7-acre lot near the Windsor Farms subdivision, shares several striking, classic features with Hyland’s other residential designs.
“They’re all very site-specific,” says Lane, who is an interior designer and co-owner of 3north, an architectural design firm. “So you couldn’t pick it up and put it in another site. They sink into the landscape. This house slopes with the lot. You enter on the main floor, and they’ve tucked the private spaces underneath.”
The street-side facades of Hyland’s houses are solid, but their backs feature extensive bands of windows that show off the landscape. Inside, horizontal elements – like the windows and a long sconce that runs along the top of one wall – dominate the main area’s open-floor plan. Like Hyland’s other houses, the casement windows are trimmed in stained birch. Throughout, the detailing is sparse, with recessed casings around the doorways instead of heavy, traditional trim.
The homeowners replaced the shag carpeting with African walnut flooring and removed a wall that separated the kitchen and the main living area, along with a banana-shaped divider that served as a prep surface in the kitchen. The renovations continue. The Lanes are still working on the four bedrooms downstairs and are about to add a fireplace. The couple repainted the interior walls, but kept the color white. They also kept the wood-grain, plastic laminate kitchen cabinets, although they updated the hardware.
“We tried to keep the integrity of the old house,” Lane says. “It’s a balancing act, keeping the good things and updating the rest.”
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