Practical Magic
When you design a house from scratch, you get to put fireplaces in the living room and in the kitchen. It’s that simple.
“I love to cook,” says Heidi Holland, who, ten years ago, transformed a vacant plot of land in Middletown into this custom home for herself, her husband and their two youngest children. “Before, I was always in the kitchen thinking, ‘You guys all get to be enjoying the fire. Why can’t I have that in the kitchen, and the company?’ Our kitchen really is our hang-out place.”
Craftsman Sam Clidence made the custom counter-height table, which sits flush with the white rhino marble cook island, from antique heart pine from a mill in Georgia. The table legs were crafted from dock wood. Photography by Michael Osean.