Remodel and joinery
Chandler Residence
A full restoration and remodel completed with architect Jen Smith and interior designer Michelle Workman, built around one feature piece that ties the whole house together.
Williams Street, Chattanooga, TN
The work
The keyhole arch is the thing the house is organised around. It is a full-height round opening framed in deep green joinery, cut between the living room and the kitchen, and it changes both rooms: you are always half in one and half in the other. Getting the curve to read as a single clean circle through a wall of that thickness is the entire job in one detail.
Above it runs a coffered mahogany ceiling, every beam and panel cut and fitted by hand. Below, the living room is panelled in the same deep green with an arched stone fireplace set into it, and custom wainscoting is carried through the rest of the house.
The kitchen is split across two moods. One side is soft blue cabinetry with a marble worktop and open shelving, running through to a butler's pantry in the same blue. The other has a copper countertop and a stainless range under a custom hood. A mudroom clad in reclaimed timber, an arched hallway on reclaimed boards, and a powder room in floral wallpaper over a navy vanity round it out.
The keyhole arch
A full-height round opening framed in green joinery between the living room and kitchen, the feature the house is built around.
Coffered mahogany ceiling
Every beam and panel cut and fitted by hand, carried across the main living space.
Two-material kitchen
Soft blue cabinetry and marble on one side, a copper countertop and stainless range under a custom hood on the other.
11 photographs
A closer look at the detail
Photography: 161 Photography and Jacob Macias.
What this job involved
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