“I have been in love with this Hygge & West wallpaper for years, and when we moved in, I knew this would be the perfect spot for just a little peek of it,” Stephanie says. “I love it every day.”
Stephanie and Zack Smith started thinking hen
about building their fourth home together,
they had their eye on a certain piece of property down the road from where they were currently living. “It’s wooded and really pretty, and we could just see the way the lot would flow,” Stephanie recalls. “We left as many trees as
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we could for privacy, and then we decided to build a cottage-style house, which seems suited to the woods.” The couple, who are no strangers to the building process—Stephanie is an interior designer under the name Zook & Pepper Interior Design & Build, and Zack owns Zack Smith Construction—found a plan by Texas architect David Wiggins that suited their needs perfectly. Zack built the house, and Stephanie