Ty Pennington: Why I Love This House (continued)
Modern design is where it's at for me, and this place is one awesome example
A drawing by artist Jody Mussoff sits on a bedside table, another one of Elliot's designs.High windows on four sides, floor-to-ceiling windows on the bump-out, and a horizontal window Elliott and Janet call the "mail slot" fill the master bedroom with natural light. "At night we can lie in bed and track the moon through the clerestory windows," says Elliott. "In the morning we can watch the birds come and go at the bird feeder." Like the rest of the house, the new master suite is deliberately spare but hardly Spartan. ("We only buy something if both of us really fall in love with it," says Elliott.) The new bathroom features unobtrusive luxuries like a skylight over the shower and radiant heat under the limestone floors. "It cycles up and down on a timed thermostat," says Janet. "It may be my favorite part of the whole addition."
The airy light-filled house is a fitting showcase for Elliott and Janet's collection of 20th-century furniture classics. What they can't find, Elliott makes himself in the new workshop. (He works for a Washington insurance and investment firm, but owned a furniture and fine millwork company in a former life.) Updated, expanded and fitting more comfortably than ever before on its site, the house is a 21st-century classic all on its own.
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