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Just a few things keeping us busy lately. 📐 Custo

Just a few things keeping us busy lately. 📐

Custom homes, renovations, site visits, plenty of time at the drawing board and of course a little fun along the way. Grateful for every project and every partner along the way.

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Postcards from Paris. Lynse and I spent a few day

Postcards from Paris.

Lynse and I spent a few days in Paris recently, and I thought I’d share a few things from the trip that stayed with me.

We stayed at Hôtel Dame des Arts @damedesarts in the Latin Quarter, just south of Notre-Dame. We appreciate a beautiful hotel, but sometimes the bigger luxury properties can feel a little too removed from the place you came to experience. This one felt just right. Thoughtful design, but still very much part of the neighborhood.

Our room had a terrace overlooking the rooftops toward the Eiffel Tower. A couple of nights, instead of heading back out after dinner, we picked up a bottle of wine and sat there watching the tower sparkle. Hard to improve on that.

The food was just as memorable. One night, a contemporary tasting menu at Semilla. Another, a very traditional French dinner at Joséphine Chez Dumonet. Completely different experiences, both worth remembering.

More than anything, Paris reminded me how much I like places that haven’t been overly perfected. Beautiful buildings next to imperfect ones. Restaurants that have been there forever. Streets you actually want to walk. Old and new living together without trying too hard.

A few favorites from the trip here.

And yes, we’re already figuring out when we can go back.

How do you modernize a historic home without erasi

How do you modernize a historic home without erasing what made it special?

For this Winnetka Tudor, we kept coming back to the same question: what is actually asking to be changed?

Some things clearly were. The kitchen needed a better relationship with the rooms around it. The exterior wanted a quieter palette. Certain rooms needed a stronger point of view and a clearer purpose. But the fireplaces, windows, beams, proportions, and unmistakable Tudor character? Those were already doing their job.

So rather than treating the existing house as something to overcome, we let it become the starting point. Walls came down where better flow mattered. New millwork was introduced where it could add function and character. Color, lacquer, chinoiserie, copper, and landscaping did some of the work that square footage didn’t need to.

The result isn’t a new house disguised as an old one. It still feels like this house. Just more connected, more expressive, and much better suited to life now. And that might be our favorite kind of transformation.

Storybook Tudor | Winnetka, Illinois

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Design + Build: @gracekaage / Kaage Homes

Exciting news, we’re growing! Widler Architecture

Exciting news, we’re growing!

Widler Architecture is looking for an Architect or Architectural Designer with 4 to 8 years of experience to join our Downers Grove studio.

This is a part-time position with the potential to grow into full-time. You’ll work closely with our team on thoughtfully designed custom homes, high-end residential renovations and select commercial projects throughout Chicagoland and Southern California. Residential experience is required.

If you care about good design, enjoy collaboration and want to be closely involved in the work, we’d love to meet you.

Send your resume + work samples to brent@widlerarch.com.

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