Nestled in a wooded, urban lot, in Lawrence, Kansas, this authentic midcentury modern home underwent an extensive renovation to modernize the surfaces and systems while preserving the charm and essence of the original structure.
Homes
Mid-Century Home features contemporary homes and buildings designed by some of the most influential modernist architects of the 20th century and built during the mid-century period: Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, Donald Wexler, Craig Ellwood and John Lautner are few of them.
Every day we curate a selection of the most representative mid-century and contemporary style homes, to inspire and make you dream but also to share the story of their architects and owners.
We choose homes designed by architects who we believe respected the modernist principles of building, influenced their generation and set the bar for the architects to come.
This House Demonstrates that Luxury Lies not in Size but in the Relationship Between Spaces
Traditionally, regardless of orientation, the Australian suburban block is longer than it is wide. Typically, dwellings are built to the side boundary setback in order to maximise the floor plate along its length.
A Garden Studio Renovation Now Houses a Team of Architects
The client set about converting an existing carport into a liveable office space. With minimal intervention, she conceived a space that accommodates four to five team members, and has the potential to adapt into a granny flat in the future.
A Nashville Renovation Provides a Unique Home for a Pair of Musicians
The architects were hired to design a new addition to the rear of a beautiful 1900’s-built home in the East Nashville Historic District, Tennessee.
With Little Left of the Original, this Midcentury Restoration Takes the Home Back to its Roots
The Fournier residence, located in Fairway, Kansas, was originally designed by Ralph Fournier, a well-known St Louis modern architect. The design was for a semi-prefabricated home for the Modular Homes Company based in St Louis.
A Midcentury Interior with an Endless Supply of Textures, Colors and Shapes
This jazzy Modernist Penthouse – nicknamed Modo Pento – interior was a treat to design and a sensory delight from the outset.
A Portland Midcentury Remodel Incorporates Clean and Simple Lines
Boomerang House in Portland, Oregon, underwent a full remodel. We had the chance to speak with the architects of this renovation to learn more about this project and its challenges and end result.
A Coastal Holiday Home Takes Full Advantage of the Outdoors
This coastal holiday home is located in Sorrento, a small town on the Mornington Peninsula, about an hour and a half drive away from Melbourne, Australia.
Natural Materials Bring Warmth and Texture to this Midcentury Home
This home displays a class midcentury modern palette, through its layers of rich timber floorboards, to oak cabinetry and darker hues.
A Midcentury Home in LA gets a Japanese-Inspired Makeover
Perched on Palmero Drive and originally built in 1955, the newly reimagined 8,400-square-foot home unfolds against a backdrop of the iconic Los Angeles skyline.
This Midcentury House Renovation Showcases an Impressive Art Collection
This renovation honors the original open concept of the house while raising the level of the home with a crisp, more streamlined aesthetic.
This Midcentury Remodel Celebrates the Full Southern California Experience
This is the full remodel of a 1951 mid-century modern home in Los Angeles. A narrow living room, dining room, and den were combined and enlarged to create a new foyer and spacious great room open to the backyard.
A Significant and Thoughtful Conservation of a 1961 Jewel Box Home
Exemplifying spatial clarity and the hallmarks of pure geometry and materiality that would come to define his larger commissions, architect Louis I. Kahn’s Margaret Esherick House represents one of nine houses built from his designs.
Iconic 1950s Vegas Home is Restored to its Original Glory
This home is located in the historic Huntridge neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada and was built in 1958. We had the chance to tour the home and meet the owners during the Home + History Las Vegas Tour as part of Nevada Preservation.
An Eichler Remodel that Celebrates the House’s Existing Post and Beam Structure
Located in Sunnyvale, California, a quiet residential community in Silicon Valley, the Twin Gable House is a thoroughly renovated Eichler Home originally designed by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons in 1962.
A New Century Modern Solution for Lovers of Midcentury Modern
Mi shack pays homage to the iconic early modernist and mid-century architects to create simple, smart, sophisticated and affordable shacks.
Exposed Brick, Beams and Ceilings are a Highlight of this Midcentury Home
This 1963 midcentury home near Piestewa Peak was originally designed by Architect Fredrick Fleener as a McCall’s Magazine ‘Certified’ home.
This Sydney Renovation Takes Guidance from Californian Modernists
Nestled in the Upper North Shore of Sydney, this home fuses modernist influences with a signature sense of ease and adaptability.
Reviving a Midcentury Home in an Authentic and Design-Forward Way
This home in Encino, California, built in 1959, had just one original owner. Prior to the renovation, the home felt like a 1960s time capsule with wood paneling, bright red carpeted floors, and large tile retro flooring.
A Respectful Brazilian Modernist Home Renovation
The renovation project took place in one of the houses designed by Jorge Zalszupin, a Polish-born Brazilian architect who became an icon of Brazilian modernism.
This Renovation Embodies Classic Midcentury Design Principles
This fresh take on a midcentury modern low-slung ranch in the Meadowbrook neighborhood of Seattle brings in tons of natural light and showcases the simple forms of a high ceiling with contrasting dark beams, and abundant wood.
This Wexler Home Juxtaposes Clean Lines with Bold Color and Shapes
This past summer, Barbara Rourke and Jason St John, founders of LA-based design studio, Bells + Whistles, completed Marrow Midcentury, a residential project in Palm Springs, CA.
A Modernist Inspired Villa in Belgium is Updated Without Touching its Soul
This luxurious villa was built on the flank of a hill in Overijse, in the Brussels periphery in Belgium. The architect’s house from 1974 got a thorough facelift by B-Bis Architecten, without touching its soul.
This Addition to a 1950’s Home Looks Like Part of the Original Design
This project is a full interior and exterior renovation and addition to a 1950s ranch in Mission Hills, Kansas, initially designed by William Wurster (1895-1973) as a spec house for Better Homes and Gardens.
An Example of Modernist Architecture in a Sub-Tropical Context
This project is the restoration and renovation of a 1971 Californian Modernist style house by Brisbane architect Gavin Litfin.
