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Once a patio, this seating area has the feeling of a club or lounge, and is perfect for cocktails. Edwards chose a lower table height intentionally, to avoid visually competing with the dining table nearby. The club table is covered in lacquered grass cloth for a sophisticated textural addition.
The perfect house, right at home BY CHRISTINE EDDINGTON PHOTOS BY DON RISI
DE N V ER M E ACH A M bought his home a little more than a decade ago, and when he and his wife Patricia Edwards decided to marry, ending a four-year-long-distance relationship, they began to search for a new place to live. “I had lived in Dallas for 25 years,” Edwards says. “Two couples, mutual friends of ours, introduced us. I was in Oklahoma City a lot at that time taking care of my mother, who was ill.”
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For some 18 months, the pair looked for a home to share. Meacham’s house was perfectly located in Grand Circle, in Nichols Hills, and the size was about right, too … but the floorplan was less open than the couple, especially Edwards, wanted. “We wanted to be able to have Denny’s whole family, which means about 25 people, over and for everyone to feel comfortable,” Edwards says.