Home Away
From Home

This project, which is located in old established Fort Worth, Texas neighborhood, represents one of only a handful of commissions where our firm designed the architecture as well as the interiors from the ground up. We were initially approached by the clients, a young couple with three young children, to design a home that represented their native New Orleans. Specifically, the clients had requested a French Quarter style house, which would be built on a lot where the clients had torn down an older derelict structure. In an effort to avoid “cliche architecture,” we suggested that we not create a replica of the well known New Orleans architectural style but rather, a sort of evolved and modernized version of what a French Quarter home might look like today.

The footprint of the home is laid out in an “L” shape with both upper and lower floors designed to maximize views of the swimming pool, which is situated in an intimate private walled garden space one might find in the French Quarter today. We also decided to eschew the typical historically inspired exterior wooden doors in favor of custom designed steel casement versions to give it a more updated feeling.

The piece de resistance of the home is an oversized open living-dining-library room floor plan where we incorporated architectural features commonly found in grand mansions with double parlors. However, we tempered the formality of the architecture by installing beams on the ceiling to exude the hipness of an open floor planned NYC Soho loft.

The home has been decorated with a mix of new custom designed upholstery, antiques and vintage pieces representing our firm’s core design philosophy of layering periods and styles to suggest an interior that has evolved over time versus one just recently installed.