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HONOR ROLL

ANYONE who has ever built a new home knows that the design and construction process takes time, patience, and creativity. Infusing fresh life into the bones of an existing home is an even greater challenge—it’s about respecting what’s already there. About blending old with new, traditional with contemporary. Which is exactly what one couple—with the help of architecture firm One 10 Studio—did with their head-turning home in a prestigious pocket of distinctively designed houses near Highland Country Club.

The couple, founders of a. It had a tired floor plan and needed work, but there was potential in the old-growth trees and Eden-green grass that surrounded the home, which leaned modern. So they started making plans to leave their traditional suburban mansion for a fresh start in a contemporary masterpiece.

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