Kentucky's yew dell botanical garden home for the castle-like pool house
YEW Dell Botanical Gardens in Crestwood, Kentucky, houses many rare and usual plants as well as a pool house for decades that looks like a castle.
Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal
- A family moved from Austin to Kentucky and was looking for a home with contemporary architecture and sufficient outside space.
- The 1981 house was carried out extensive renovation work, including a colorful interior design with a blue fireplace, yellow seat patches and a large bookshelf.
- The kitchen, which was initially not planned for renovation, was updated with blue cupboards, a yellow hood and an orange island, which prioritize the functionality and safety of children.
- The house can be seen on the 31st annual house tour of the Filson Historical Society.
Saba and Elias Kamaras were in Austin, Texas when they had their first child.
“He was born a year before Covid,” said Saba about her son Ori. “We didn't have anyone nearby, and it got really difficult. When he got a little older, we wanted to get closer to one of our families.”
They finally decided to look for houses in the Louisville area near Saba's parents and brother. It took six months of the search for a certain prospect property to be available.
“We thought it was great that the original architecture in 1981 was very contemporary,” said Saba about her 4.200 square meter living place. “It still had very clear lines and (was) still something modern, although it was built 40 years ago.”
As an enthusiastic gardener, she was particularly the extensive outer space that offers a stream in the back yard and several areas for her little ones.
“We just loved it that it was a lot of land and a really nice house that we could change something like our family,” recalled Saba.
Although the outside was ideal and the house had solid bones, the Kamarasen knew that it would take some work to bring them to where they wanted it. Some of the bathrooms and bedrooms have not been renovated since the first building of the house, and Saba – who has a background to fashion design – had some ideas on how to revitalize the interior.
Brave and bright
“I always wanted a very colorful house,” said Saba. “I love color in all aspects of my life.”
She decided to keep the outer neutral appearance of the house with black and warm wooden tones-but the interior is a completely different story. With the help of the design company of Louisville Natalie O Design, Saba sprinkled brave colors in her entire house.
“Everything inside is like a Crayola explosion,” she laughed, adding that she has always wanted to integrate more color into her old apartments, but never had the opportunity to go out and to really make the room into her own.
“We really worked with Natalie and her team to push the envelope as far as possible with color without making it too overwhelming.”
To achieve this, they anchored the room with white oak floor and kept most walls neutral. But there are bright color shoes almost everywhere else.
Multi-colored carpets directly in the front door lead to the living room, which offers a dark blue, tiled fireplace that extends to the 22-foot ceiling. A bold floating strip keeps the look over the ceiling, which offers five large neutral trailers.
Corners and novels
The fireplace is flanked by two bright yellow seating halls, which looks like the extra large, baby blue bookshelves, Saba's favorite area of the house.
“Since I saw 'Beauty and the Biest' when I was a little child,” she said, “I wanted a bookshelf and a ladder who ran around, and now I actually have one.”
She adds that you did not want much dead space in a room with such high ceilings, so that the bookshelf was individually created in order to use the wall as much as possible. Completed now – and full of books that belong to the entire family of four – it offers an entertaining space to get lost in a book for hours.
“It is a really funny expression of what our family enjoys and the little things that make us what we are,” said Saba.
The expansive living room also offers a baby grass piano that plays Little Ori. additional comfortable seats; a dining area; And lots of space for the little ones you can roam through.
Make meals and memories
The living room flows into the kitchen, which was initially not part of the Kamaress conversion plan.
Saba explains that the previous owners renovated the kitchen in 2014. When she and Elias bought the property, it was the most modern part of the house and didn't seem to be a revision. But their plans changed quickly when the rest of the house turned.
“We found that we literally touched every other room,” recalled Saba, “the kitchen would look completely different, so we also repeated it.”
The room now has blue cupboards, a yellow hood and an orange island. However, the room has been updated to add more than the color pops that were seen in the rest of the house. It was also carefully built taking into account function and security.
A hob for induction keeps small hands safe and facilitates, while two dishwasher ensure that a variety of cookware is always ready.
“My husband went to the cooking school, so he is a big house chef,” said Saba, adding that she likes to bake, and both enjoy the children to keep the food. They even called a lower drawer on the island to keep the dishes intended for small hands so that their son and daughter can easily reach the dishes with which they cook their parents.
“We wanted a room where they could really come and join us.”
The Kamarasen house is one of several residences on the 31st annual house tour of the Filson Historical Society.
Do you know a house that would be a great home of the week? E -mail to the writer Lennie Omalza at aloha@lennieomalza.com or lifestyle editor Kathryn Gregory at kgregory@gannett.com.
WHAT: The annual tour of the Filson Historical Society celebrates the clear beauty of the houses in the Louisville region. The residences are carefully selected by the House Tour Committee and reflect different styles of houses.
WHEN: Sunday, September 14th, 1pm to 6pm
WHERE: All houses are geographically summarized in the Louisville region to minimize the travel time.
Tickets: Tour tickets are available for members of the Filson Historical Society for 250 US dollars. Membership begins at $ 30.
More information: Visit Filsonhistorical.org/filsons-annual-House tour or by phone at 502-635-5083.
Nuts & bolts
Owner: Saba Juneja Kamaras and Elias Kamaras. Saba is a co -founder of Spoonie Threads The Adaptive Fashion Company and Elias is a software consultant. Ori, 6 and Lina, 2.
Home: This is a four and a half bathroom with four bedrooms and 4.200 square meters, contemporary house in Prospect. It was built in 1981.
Characteristic elements: Oversized Cumaru house door; Multi -colored 3form panels on the stairs; Floor and fourth tiles around the living room fireplace, which are nested between tailor -made bright yellow seat patches; Huge bookshelves in the living room with rolling library manager; Clean face cabinets in the kitchen with orange Island, blue pantry and yellow ventilation hood; Children's room with attic and rattles.
Applause! Applause! Langan and Matt Hollowell in Karen Langan + James, general contractor; Emily Paprocki at Rock Paper Hammer, architect; And Natalie Officer at Natalie O Design.