home of distinction
“I told him what my
thoughts were. We
said, ‘We want to see
what you come up
with, what you are
inspired to create.’”
Nixon and Connell
“He drew this and
can make it look like
anything,’” Nixon
says. “We said, ‘No,
we really like it.’ We
tweaked the façade
slightly and tweaked
a few things on the
interior layout. Very
minor. He was sur-prised
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THE couple
purchased
the land
and hired
Wilming-ton
architect David
Lisle to design their
home.
“He came out and
looked at the prop-erty,”
Nixon says.
had envisioned a
contemporary crafts-man
style, but what
Lisle produced was
something entirely
different.
said, ‘Just look at
it. It’s probably too
contemporary, mod-ernish
for you, but I
by how con-temporary
we went.”
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