Elegant in Austin | Kitchen & Hearthroom

Today I bring you another look into my lovely project in Austin.  If you are new around here and want to see more of this home, it is part of a series that I've titled 'Elegant in Austin'.  I've previously blogged about the dining room, family room, master bedroom & bath, study and the son, Blake's, bath.  Take a peek back, this home is gorgeous!
For the kitchen, we chose a crisp, white palette. We brought in spots of ebony with the gorgeous Negro Marquina marble mixed with delectable Calacatta marble.  We chose Calacatta to incorporate the bits of caramel and gray, that calacatta is so known for, to complement the entire home's palette.  Over the cooktop, we did a fun Calacatta harlequin detail with a Negro Marquina dot.

You can see the pretty dining room peeking through the butler's pantry passage.

Shaw's Original sink, of course :-)

Isn't this piece of Negro Marquina marble just delicious?!

We mixed lots of mercury glass in throughout the home including on the lanterns over the peninsula bar.  I love the subtle patina it creates...and the brass fittings peeking out from under it...just yum!

In this image below, you can see the relationship of the cozy family room to the kitchen.  This family truly lives in their family room and kitchen and really wanted these spaces to interact well with each other.  The open floorplan that we designed achieves that request well.

One of my favorite features, that we designed into this home, is the hearthroom right off of the kitchen.  It is larger than a typical nook and has a gorgeous cast stone fireplace, hence the name.

This hearthroom gets tons of use!  Her son sits here for homework, her husband often trickles out here from the study with his work and of course this is where they share their meals.

The sweet window seats are often cozied up into for reading or in Blake's case, playing games :-)

I hope you've enjoyed another look into this Austin beauty!  I still have several more spaces in this home to share with you, so check back again if this is your cup of tea :-)

I hope you've had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend.  We sure are!  We are attending a NICU reunion for NICU 'graduates' at the hospital where Alice was born.  I barely held it together, when I received the sweet little invite in the mail, remembering that time and how scary and difficult it was.  We are so very blessed that not only is our Bunny is with us but she is healthy and thriving! We are forever grateful to the staff that took such good care of her.  The Lord is so very good!  If you follow me on Instagram you'll likely see an update or two there :-)
Happy Weekend!
*due to client contracts, I am unable to share sources*

Sneak Peek | Vintage Kitchen Design

 

 

 

Elegant In Austin | The Study

If you've been around the blog a while, you likely recognize the 'Elegant In Austin' series.  This project turned out amazing and my precious clients were a joy to work with!  This space has been completed for a while, but life truly got in the way of photographing it and putting it out here in the blogosphere. 

If you've missed this series, you can see some more of the spaces in this gorgeous Austin home here, here and here. 

This study sits just off the family room through two grand pocket doors.  Like our door color?  I love it!  After I selected this color for my client I immediately had to have it in my own home too. I blogged about a little ol' pregnant nesting meltdown ;-) request in a previous post here.

We did this study in an inky, high gloss peacock blue.  It is gorgeous in person!!!  High gloss is not easy to photograph!

We found this amazing macassar ebony and ostrich leather inlay desk that was just perfect for the space.  This desk is used as more of an in-and-out working space for her husband.  There are two more pocket doors on the left wall of the space enclosing a small built-in office workstation that houses the computer, printer, papers etc.  It's nice to have it enclosed so that you can just close those doors and still have a pretty study without seeing all of your daily clutter. 



 We framed vintage sheet music for our art.  My client picked the songs :-)

 I love the chair with the oval cut out back we found!

We had a custom sofa made for one of her previous homes and so while drawing up the plans for this home, we planned the study dimensions around it.  Deer eat, literally, right outside of that window in the front yard, and this comfy sofa is the perfect perch to watch them.

The stunning Catherine sconce by Visual Comfort & Co.

 

I hope that you had a very blessed Easter.  He is risen!
I'm going to try to be better about blogging :-/  Instagram sure has made it easy to just throw unedited content out there!  If you'd like to see more of my project progress pics mixed in with the mundane minutia of my life ;-) follow me @mariaebeck.  Wow, that's a ringing endorsement huh?! ha!
I hope you're having a great week!

*due to client contracts, I am unable to share sources*

Sneak Peek

I have finally gotten around to photographing the rest of one of my Austin projects.  I've featured some of the spaces before in an 'Elegant in Austin' series here, here and here.  Also, let's not forget Blake's bath (which is in this home) that has made it's rounds on Pinterest and made momma proud!

It's a little embarrassing how much time I have let pass before I took pictures of this fun and beautiful project. Life truly got in the way this time.  I had a baby and then she had a baby and now here we are 18 months later, sheesh! 

 

Well, nonetheless, it's a gorgeous home and it deserves to be seen.

 

Soooo...I'll be back soon with lot's more to look at :-)

 

I hope you're having a great week!

500 Likes

What a fun milestone! :-)  M. E. Beck Design, Inc.'s Facebook page has reached 500 likes. 

 

Thanks for all of your support for this little ol' company of mine.