Omaha Home: cover feature << “I know a lot of people these days don't want a dining room; they want an eat-in kitchen or a bar or whatever,” says Kristin who, along with Mike, is a co-founder of the local brand strategy and design company, Grain & Mortar. “I want to have family dinners and a big long table.” To accommodate guests, Michael and Kristin made big choices, one of which was to define the living room with a tailored sectional sofa that seats ten, more if you get downright cheek-to-cheek chummy. Conversely, other items were scaled down, like the compact, yellow-and-white library cart that serves as a bar. Even there, an oversized recipe for an Old Fashioned pokes fun at the idea of “appropriate” scale. “Given this ugly little cart, it's like oh, man, no one wants that,” Kristin says. “I thought about painting it but I like the scuffs.” The cart also offers a shorthand look at Kristin's point of view: sharply edited contents marshaled alongside whimsical decisions.
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november/december • 2013
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