Stars of ASID
Each year, regional ASID chapters host design competitions to honor the best and brightest new projects. Here are a few recent residential award winners that have received accolades from the jurors.
BY NORA BURBA TRULSSON
Boulder Residence
Boulder, Colorado
Kate Ohle, Allied Member ASID, IIDA
Cherie Goff, AIA
Harvey M. Hine Architects
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BEN TREMPER
 Simple, neutral-colored furnishings keep the emphasis on the home’s spectacular views.
Of all the cities in the West, Boulder has to rank as one of the most eco-conscious. Thus, it was not surprising that when an active couple chose to build a new home there, they wanted it to be simple, open and environmentally friendly.
The couple asked a design team from Boulder-based Harvey M. Hine Architects--interior designer Kate Ohle and architect Cherie Goff--to help create the new home. The resulting airy house, which emphasizes natural hues and finishes, simple furnishings and abundant daylight, won the firm a 2008 design award in the category of Primary Residence Under 5,000 Square Feet from the Colorado Chapter ASID.
The three-level, 3,700-square-foot house is located on a hillside lot, walking distance to downtown Boulder, with views of the city’s signature mountain formation, the Flatirons. The nearly half-acre site had an existing house that was removed to make way for the new structure.
 The living room and kitchen are separated by a sleek fireplace.
Working together with firm principal Harvey M. Hine, AIA, and intern architect Chris Norris, Goff and Ohle created a floorplan that steps the home into the hillside to take advantage of views and utilizes a smaller footprint. The main level includes a long entry gallery, which serves as an organizing element for the house. The public areas of the main level, including kitchen, dining area and living room, are to the south of the gallery, while private areas, such as a media room, office and powder room, are located to the north. The master suite and a second bedroom that doubles as an at-home yoga studio, are located on the upper level, while guest quarters and the garage are at the lower level.
The home’s contemporary exterior features large expanses of glass and flat rooflines that give way to curves over the master bedroom and living area to maximize sightlines from within the home. A series of decks on the main and upper levels invite outdoor living. Exterior materials include stucco, local sandstone and rust-patinaed CorTen steel. “The tones and materials of the house blend with the site,” explains Goff, “and were repeated inside to blur the boundary between indoors and out.”
Inside, Ohle strove to keep the look elegant, yet casual enough for homeowners who like to bike, run, hike and ski. Crisp white walls link the cinnamon-hued hardwood flooring used throughout much of the interior with the warmth of the tongue-in-groove cedar-clad ceiling. In the kitchen, simple cherry cabinetry is contrasted with charcoal-toned soapstone counters and a concrete bar top. The master bathroom is a mix of tile sizes and colors, dark wood cabinetry and stainless steel vessel sinks.
Furnishings reflect the simplicity of the home’s lines. “We used many of the homeowners’ existing pieces,” explains Ohle, who mixed in Mimi London tables with upholstered pieces from Room and Board to create a sleek, clean look. Colors were kept neutral to keep the emphasis on the couple’s art collection and surrounding views.
 The home, which has three levels, steps down the hillside site.
While the home is visually appealing to both the homeowners and design jurors, it’s also appealing on a sustainable level, a key mission of Harvey M. Hine Architects. The house has many green elements, including solar panels, an advanced heat-pump system and the use of local and recycled materials (the flooring is made of reclaimed tropical hardwoods). Plenty of windows flood the interior with daylighting, while a south-facing stone wall in the entry gallery adds a passive solar element during the colder months. Even the fireplace, an Australian innovation, is eco-friendly. Parts of the old house that was torn down were donated to ReSource, a building materials-recycling company located in Boulder.
The bottom line? The clients wound up with a comfortable home that fits their active, earth-friendly lifestyle. The design team took home a special award and the satisfaction of a green mission accomplished.
Interior design and architecture: Harvey M. Hine Architects, 1701 15th St., Unit A, Boulder, CO 80302; (303) 444-8488 or www.hinearch.com.
Builder: Cottonwood Construction, 4439 N. Broadway, Suite E, Boulder, CO 80304; (303) 449-3076 or www.cottonwoodcustombuilders.com.
Reclaimed wood flooring: Terramai, www.terramai.com.
Fireplace: EcoSmart Fire, www.ecosmartfire.com.
Dining, coffee and side tables: Mimi London, from John Brooks, Inc., 601 S. Broadway, Denver, CO 80209, (303) 698-9977, www.johnbrooksinc.com; or www.mimilondon.com.
Sofa, chair and ottoman: Room and Board, www.roomandboard.com.
Master bath field and 1/2” wall tile: Ann Sacks, www.annsacks.com.
Master bath floor tile: Capco Tile and Stone, www.capcotile.com.
Master bath sinks: Neo-Metro, www.neo-metro.com.
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Fountain Hills Residence
Fountain Hills, Arizona
Anita Lang Mueller, Allied Member ASID
Interior Motives, Inc. | Fountain Hills and Scottsdale, Arizona
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DINO TONN
 Pomegranate-hued cabinetry punches up the sleek kitchen.
For Anita Lang Mueller, the interior design of a Fountain Hills, Arizona residence melded the best of both worlds, reflecting the desires and personalities of the clients--the husband, an engineer, who likes straight, simple lines, and the vivacious wife, who gravitates toward vivid colors.
For that matter, the project was the best of multiple worlds, as it won Mueller two First Place Awards in the categories of Residential Kitchen and Residential Singular Space (for the great room and dining area), as well as a Third Place Award in the category of Product Design for the dining area chandelier, all from the 2008 ASID Arizona North Chapter design competition.
The triple-award winning residence evolved from Mueller’s longstanding professional relationship with the couple, who had moved to Arizona from the Midwest. “I did their first house here,” says Mueller, principal of Interior Motives, Inc., “and it was definitely more conservative.” Several years of living Arizona’s more casual and contemporary lifestyle convinced the clients to make their second desert home more informal, as well as to take a few more design risks, with Mueller’s guidance.
 The great room’s focal point is a custom mahogany media cabinet, detailed with glass tiles.
The new, 4,500-square-foot, three-bedroom home, designed by Phoenix architect Randall Ewers, AIA, has great views, Mueller explains, and the interior plan accents the vistas, as well as provides a comfortable place for entertaining, particularly the sit-down dinners the clients enjoy hosting for friends.
For the interior, Mueller worked with a backdrop of limestone flooring, pale neutral walls and stacked stone accents. For the great room, Mueller designed a nearly wall-sized mahogany media cabinet, creating a focal point for the seating area with the cabinet’s warm, ruddy hue and its embedded glass tiles. A custom sectional and low-profile side chairs angle around an onyx-topped coffee table, all underscored by a Calvin Klein area rug. Niches next to the media cabinet serve as a place to display a collection of ceramic and glass art.
In the dining area, Mueller surrounded the onyx-topped dining table with low-profile upholstered chairs, and kept the room free of too much fuss to focus views on the surrounding desert hills. She did design an art glass chandelier, hung over the table, made of cast glass panels embedded with dichroic ribbons, fabricated by a local artist. “We didn’t want to do too much for the space,” says Mueller, “but the glass chandelier seemed to be the right touch.”
 The dining room was kept simple, emphasizing desert views.
 The dining room’s custom chandelier is made with cast glass panels.
It was in the kitchen that the wife’s love of color came to full fruition. Mueller suggested sleek, custom anigré cabinetry, punched up with a jewel-toned pomegranate stain. Graphite-colored granite in the countertops and slate for the backsplash, as well as stainless steel appliances, keep the cabinetry from overpowering the space. “We used deep grays in the countertop and backsplash to balance out the red,” Mueller explains. Mueller also designed a curving island, accented by a glass and steel ledge, which terminates in a circular bar. “The curving lines help with the traffic flow and let the homeowners interact with guests when they cook,” says Mueller. A light soffit and a ribbon of glass mosaic tiles in the floor echo the curves of the island.
The completed home allows the owners to relax, cook and entertain in style. It also allowed Mueller and her Interior Motives, Inc. design team three trips to the podium to claim awards during the 2008 Arizona North Chapter ASID design banquet.
Interior design and custom furnishings: Interior motives, Inc., 16851 E. Parkview Ave., Fountain Hills, AZ 85268, (480) 837-8979; 6921 E. 1st St., Suite 2, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, (480) 970-8979 or www.interiormotivesaz.com.
Architecture: Randall Ewers Associates, 11611 N. 12th Terrace, Phoenix, AZ 85020;
(602) 750-9268 or www.rea-architecture.com.
Cabinetry fabrication: Affinity Kitchens, 7848 E. Redfield Rd., Suite 10, Scottsdale, AZ 85260; (480) 348-0088 or www.affinitykitchens.com.
Flooring, kitchen backsplash and granite: Arizona Tile, www.arizonatile.com.
Wolf and Sub-Zero kitchen appliances: Westye Group Southwest, 15570 N. 83rd Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85260; (480) 921-0900 or www.subzerowolfsouthwest.com.
Great room area rug: Calvin Klein Rugs, www.calvinkleinrugs.com.
Great room sectional fabric: Highland Court Fabrics, www.highlandcourtfabrics.com.
Great room chairs fabric: Robert Allen, www.robertallendesign.com.
Dining room light fixture glass: Artisan Glass, www.artisanglassco.com.
Dining room chairs fabric: Mokum, available through John Brooks, Inc.,
2712 N. 68th St., Scottsdale, AZ 85257, (480) 675-8828, www.johnbrooksinc.com; or www.mokumtextiles.com.
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