Woodrow Wilson House

This was an extensive remodel of a spanish style house built in 1927, which had been renovated several times by different contractors.

Although the house had been owned by different families, by the time our clients purchased it, there had been squatters living on the property and it had been seized by the bank. Due to the squatters living in the house, it had extensive fire damage and was filled with debris and trash.

Our first step was to clean and restore the house to its former glory and then to reimagine some of the awkward spaces created during its many different renovations.

the circulation throughout the house, which required removing the back stair, opening up the kitchen to the dining room, and adding a master bath where a balcony used to be. In addition to this, we layered on architectural elements like coffered ceilings, columns and ceiling rosettes to dress up a house that lacked a lot of the charm and character that we typically associate with older homes.  A comfy built-in sofa occupies the family room for movie nights and lazy lounging, while a large curved sofa in the living room is the perfect place for dressier get-togethers.Our aesthetic direction for the house was to create "an ode to the Pacific Northwest." The palette is moody, green, lush, mossy and heavy on the western walnut while the decorative lighting and furnishings are markedly modern and playful, which suits the youthful, forward thinking character of our clients and their kids. In the kitchen JHID designer Mira Eng-Goetz hand-painted a mural of sword ferns across all of the walls as a way to create a garden view in a room with windows that look out onto the facade of a neighboring apartment building.  The tiles even continue over the built-in fridge to achieve a seamless fern-scape throughout the room.

The senior designer for the woodrow wilson House project was hannah wolf.