Placeholder
Placeholder

St. Francisville Country Home

St. Francisville, LA — 2019


Nestled between a lake and stables, this remote residence is a country retreat home designed to showcase and savor the surrounding area’s remarkable views. The home has a unique design, with the appearance of a modest, traditional Acadian facade from the front, and the feeling of a contemporary, untraditional lake house from the back, including a vast window overlooking the ten-acre lake.

Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder

The space was designed to convey both the vernacular language of the house’s historic bones, including traditional cementitious stucco columns in the front, and a playful, contemporary language unbound by traditional form.

Placeholder
Placeholder

Centering the open main room is a custom steel-base dining table surrounded by antique leather-upholstered chairs.

Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder

 
Hand-hewn beams play a prominent role in the open-keeping area and kitchen, as does an old barn loft ladder that was incorporated into the design near the 16-foot ceiling. Adding cool contrast to the otherwise warm space are a 600-pound steel range hood and a steel bar cabinet

Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder

The overall idea was to create a cozy and warm environment that the family could really live in. It is comfortable and a little bit rustic, but it’s all about balancing the new and the old.

Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder

A saddle leather bed is the centerpiece of this guest bedroom and clerestory windows over the bed offer abundant light without compromising privacy or wall space in this smaller room.

Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder
Placeholder

Our studio dogs Linus and Lucy are relaxing in the mudroom where a shovel used for the groundbreaking of this home project is also on display.

Back ToTop