Landscape design offers fun for all ages
Written by: Lyla Haggard/Photos by: Johan Roetz, except where noted With a growing family of three boys, ages seven to one year, Travis and Amy decidedly needed to maximize the…
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Home improvement ideas lead to eclectic redo
Written by: Abby Weingarten/Photos by: Johan Roetz For the past three decades, Karen and Danny Riffe have been remodeling homes, gradually building up to their current 6,000-square-foot residence in St.…
Home design features Tropical Modernism
When an advertising executive escaping the cold New York winters met his wife in Tampa, they had to find a home design that merged their personalities and families. “My wife says…
Kitchen remodel is a natural beauty
Paula and Chip Everton, who in 1994 moved into their lovely Avila home to rear their three children Cory, Christy and Courtney, finally decided last year that it was time…
East meets West in unique home design
Kirit and Pratibha Patel, both natives of Gujarat, wanted to bring a little bit of India to their newly-built home in Lutz. The entrepreneurial couple and their two daughters, 28-year-old…
Secluded home serves as a private oasis
A long winding driveway gracefully leads to the traditional white two-story estate of Elliott and Virginia Dorsch and their two children, 6-year-old Aiden and 2-year-old Emma. Centrally placed in the…
Interior design ideas making waves
If you want a peaceful life, perhaps you should not make waves. That rule does not apply at Sean Field and Jennifer Merritt’s St. Petersburg condo, where the wave motif…
Restoring a classic with a unique house remodeling project
A 1925-built structure in a historic district of Lakeland, the home of Pam and Larry Norman has been a true labor-of-love house remodeling project. “Renovating this house has definitely kept…
Kitchen design offers rustic elegance
“Rustic Glam” is the phrase homeowner Suzanne Raburn uses to describe her family’s new home in Wimauma, just southeast of Tampa. Conveniently located on family-owned property, Suzanne, husband Ryan, and…
Remodeling project reveals an updated mid-century gem
What do you get when you cross an entrepreneur artist and a savvy realtor with a 1951, untouched Mid-century modern home, hiding in an overgrown jungle? You get a magical…
Home design bears a cultural soul
Inspired by the royal palaces of their home country, one couple’s Thonotosassa residence is a love letter to both India and to each other. The husband-and-wife homeowners, who hail from…
Home remodel with all the right moves
Mike and Chantal Peterson searched for two years for just the right home in Tampa to put down roots. Mike, a defensive lineman for the Atlanta Falcons, lives and works…