said...although the shades could potentially be left open, thanks to the privacy afforded through the property’s extensive acreage. Dehart has designed a lot of stonework in his career. “This house didn’t want to be a completely stone house,” he said. There is a carefully thought-out interplay between the limestone, the wood infill and the glass. Many houses have a limestone foundation wall with a brick house or wood house sitting on top. “In this case the stone participates more actively, not just as a stand,” Dehart said. “This house is a really modern house because it uses a lot of the tenets of modern architecture,” he said. For instance, rooms are connected visually as opposed to being “separate boxes,” the way a Victorian design connected interior rooms. The open floor plan is ideal when entertaining 50 or 60 people. Dehart has always designed kitchens with a “public aspect” to them, so this was the first time he incorporated both a back-of-thehouse staging area and an out-inthe-open cooking space at the same time. The sub-kitchen and butler’s pantry are behind the great room, out of sight, acting as a catering kitchen of sorts for prepping and cleaning. The main kitchen in the open space is where everybody migrates, as family members and visitors do in all modern kitchens. The placement of the long island in this space means guests can hang out while the cook is working. “It keeps people in the kitchen but not underfoot,” Dehart said. And with a space as generous and inviting as this one, “underfoot” is a problem these homeowners are certain not to encounter.
3 3 In the dining area of the great space, the table was custom-crafted from a slab of black walnut. It comfortably seats eight people. The chandelier above the table serves to delineate the dining room space. It is one example of accent lighting in the main section of the house, where recessed can lights in the ceiling provide illumination in the evenings. Mother Nature, of course, lights the space as often as possible during the day.
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