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Left: Stainless steel wire
railings, designed by
Humphrey, lead up to the top
floor while continuing the
horizontal lines throughout
the house. Top: Contemporary
concrete slab countertops
and monochromatic colors
merge with cypress and oak.
Below: The kitchen before
renovations.
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have four or five people for those jobs,
he kind of wears all the hats.”
“We found out we could do more to
the house than originally thought and
we were able to rework some things,”
Humphrey explains. “It opened up so
many more possibilities.”
One major requirement for the homeowners
was that they work with the
original footprint of the house to help
preserve its architectural integrity.
So, Humphrey redesigned the traditional
East Coast beach cottage into a
two-story house with a contemporary
twist on classic, timeless elements.
“I’ve done other renovation projects
and I’ve always tried to be respectful and
keep it as close to what it was intended
on being,” Brown says. “Probably much
to Bryan’s concern, I said let’s keep the
back half of the house and the size and
shape that it was.”
Humphrey adds, “We didn’t change
anything about the perimeter. There
was room to go out to the setback so
we pushed the deck out and covered it