The current owner of the large mid-century modern home on Terry Hill Lane has given it a complete makeover since purchasing it five years ago from its original owners. The three-bedroom home, designed by Ted Christner, needed the update, and she did it in style.
“It’s a brand-new home in the shell,” she says. “I have spent a lot of time and energy here. For me, I feel very privileged to have been able to create the beauty that is here. It’s just a very fulfilling piece of design and architecture. I’ve lived with such beauty everywhere I’ve looked.”
The homeowner is an interior designer and artist and fell in the love with the architecture. Before doing a thing, she enlisted the help of a local architect, the late Howard Koblenz. They spent a year transforming the interior’s 5,760-square feet.
She says Terry Hill Lane will always hold a special place for her, even as she moves further east to be closer to her grown children. “The house has so much glass,” she says. “It’s flooded with light and I love it. It’s very open to the outdoors. No matter where I look, I see beautiful old trees and greenery. Bird-watching is fabulous. It’s very Zen.”
While she cites each room as special to her, she especially enjoyed the large room on the lower level that doubled as her art studio. “The thing that’s great about my studio here is that it has walkouts to an outdoor living area that’s extremely private,” she says. “It’s very simple and restful. The space could be used for a lot of things.”
That was how she designed much of the house—sophisticated but easily adaptable. “There is a lot of flexible space, purposefully flexible,” she says. “I knew that the way I would use space might be different than others would use it. Rooms could be bedrooms or offices or sitting rooms or family rooms. It would be very easy for someone to move in and just keep going.”
She says the home’s open flow concept worked well when she held gatherings, most of which were for family. She did, however, throw one neighborhood party after the year-long construction was completed. “They had to live with workers at the end of the street for more than a year, so I wanted to invite them in,” she says. “It was a holiday party so they could see the finished product.” The owner says she will miss her neighbors and the quiet area. “The street itself and the lane are very private and wonderful,” she says. “No two houses here are alike. There is some wonderful history the street.”
listing price | $1,498,000
listing agent | ted wight of dielmann sotheby’s international realty
Interior photos: Tom Chlebowski
Cover photo: Bill Barrett
