The arched details first appear at the front façade, where a sleek metal-frame door opens to a hallway tiled in a black-and-white checkerboard flooring pattern. “We wanted to delineate the entry from the rest of the house,” Davis says, “but it still feels so classic.” To the right, a series of arches leads into the soaring, cathedral-like great room holding the kitchen, living and dining spaces.
As appealing as large communal areas can be, Davis admits they can also present a challenge for space planning and decor. “It’s important to make things more human and livable—creating zones and rooms within rooms,” she notes. To foster intimacy, and echo the curved forms, “We added a barrel vault over the kitchen and repeated a shallower version over the bar opposite,” she says. “The paneled ceiling also brings down the scale and warms things up.”
Dividing the room into discrete areas further tempers the volume. Near the bar, Davis arranged a pair of kidney-shaped sofas into a lounge-like vignette and centered another, larger seating group before the cast-stone fireplace. For the adjacent dining area, the designer skipped the standard table-and-chairs combo in favor of curved banquettes at both ends. “I didn’t want to plunk a table down with chairs around it,” she says. “This feels more intentional and inviting.”
Davis offset the kitchen’s white oak flooring and lower cabinetry—the latter accented by Rejuvenation hardware—with Ciot zellige tile around the pizza oven. The Poetto fixture is from California Faucets.
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To soften the scale, designer Jessica Davis carved out distinct zones in the great room. A custom Niba Designs rug grounds the living space beneath a Clad Home sofa and an RH coffee table.