Open to Change
Small rooms demand creative storage, yet Tim Cuppett and Marco Rini took a counterintuitive approach by putting pretty much all of their belongings on display when they bought their circa-1850 fixer-upper seven years ago in Austin. "Everything here is a reflection of us," Cuppett notes, "And prompts us to reflect more."
In this photo: The kitchen's floor-to-ceiling shelves—accessible by rolling ladder—hold tons of tableware. The wall is painted Land of Liberty by Benjamin Moore.
What would entice someone to move from a modern loft—a loft that same person describes as "sleek and minimalist, like an art gallery"— to a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places? It certainly wasn't the old house's meager 1,200 square feet that sold Austin architect Cuppett. Nor, he says, was it the "carved-up rooms," the "unfortunate kitchen," or the "garden of weeds and pea gravel."
No, it was something intangible yet inarguable that led Cuppett's partner, landscape designer Rini, to declare "We'll take it!" before he and Cuppett had even toured all the rooms or asked the price. "The house had a soul," Cuppett explains.
In this photo: The center hall before it was painted and transformed into a dining room.
Perhaps the most ingenious maneuver Cuppett and Rini utilized was strategic furniture placement. Rather than waste the home's wide hallway as a repository for coats and keys, the couple reimagined it as a dining room. "Marco found a narrow, French tailor's table from the 1840s, on which bolts of silk would have been unfurled," Cuppett explains. "We paired it with inexpensive Crate & Barrel chairs and benches. Overhead, we removed electric lights in favor of candleholders, forcing us to dine by candlelight."
In this photo: Cuppett and Rini woke up their blah center hall with paint—contrasting a light-reflecting high-gloss white (Silver Satin by Benjamin Moore) with dramatic gray-black trim. Austin blacksmith Daniel Smith forged the iron chandeliers.
Cuppett ripped out the cabinets in the kitchen in favor of open shelving and freestanding furnishings.
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