Elmwood
Denver, CO
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2025
Elmwood
A custom new build for a couple transitioning from city to suburban life, designed to feel rooted and enduring.
Year
2025
location
Denver, CO
Size
2,900 sqft
Designing for the Long Term
Elmwood was a project built on a single conviction: that a well-designed home should feel better with age, not in spite of it. The clients — a couple in their early forties moving out of a city apartment for the first time — wanted a house that would grow with them, accommodate guests comfortably, and never require the kind of wholesale update that fashion-driven interiors eventually demand.
We focused the design around a handful of architectural gestures that would remain timeless: a double-height entrance hall, a generous kitchen running the depth of the house, and a covered back porch that extends the living space into the Colorado outdoors for most of the year. Everything else followed from those anchors.
Materials Built to Last
The material selection was governed by one question: how will this look in twenty years? Brick was chosen for the exterior and carried inside as a feature wall in the living room. Flooring is solid white oak throughout — not engineered — chosen for its ability to be sanded and refinished across decades of use. Hardware is unlacquered bronze, expected and welcomed to patinate.
The kitchen was designed with the same philosophy: shaker-profile cabinetry in a deep charcoal, stone countertops with a honed rather than polished finish, and open shelving in lieu of upper cabinets to keep the room feeling connected rather than closed. Elmwood is a home that already feels lived-in, in the best possible way.
