Design by Kathryn Cook Photography by Vic Wahby Text by Nayda Rondon “WOW” and “NOW.” That’s how Essex Fells-based designer Kathryn Cook describes the aesthetics she sought to create for the Livingston townhouse-style residence of Michelle and Adam Cox and their two boys. “They wanted to shed the old and explore the new,” Cook explains. […]
A Lived-In Renovation
On Home-Design TV, renovations proceed with breakneck speed: Two months! Six weeks! One hundred days to build a house! Renovation of Wayne and Annie Norbeck’s 112-year-old Montclair home, on the other hand, has been neither a sprint nor a marathon, but more of a protracted meander. They began work on the house in 2015, […]
Every Touch Counts
Downsizing doesn’t have to mean sacrificing style. Just ask designer James Yarosh, who helped transform a Tinton Falls townhouse into a jewel box of a home for Carol Pardee, who was moving from a larger estate in Freehold. “She was ready to create something new that was wonderful,” remembers Yarosh, who was brought into […]
Too Blue?
Even the best-laid plans are sometimes no match for the unexpected, but designer Megan Pisano knows how to pivot. Thus the family room she created from a blank canvas in a new-construction Chatham home hit a crescendo of “wow”— after rising from disappointment. The unexpected? The manufacturer discontinued the gray that Pisano and the […]