• Lance and Nicola Herbst designed large furniture pieces from the same timbers they used to build the house. The living area’s sofa and kitchen island are of spotted gum to match the floors; there’s a poplar plywood daybed in the open hallway over the living area, above, that is lined with poplar bookcases that echo the walls and cabinets of the kitchen and bedrooms. For contrast, wooden pieces are detailed with the same blackened steel used for the living area’s fireplace surround.
• Light and dark meet in the stairwell and the upstairs bedroom, where the Herbsts created walls of laser-cut poplar plywood with a pattern that Lance describes as “the negative of the pattern of the exterior cladding.” They like the way the laser leaves a charred finish, he…
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ELLE DECOR (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2017