Homes

In Salt Lake City, a team of pros transforms a cramped 1942 cottage into an oasis of open spaces, lush gardens and fresh, contemporary style. Photos by Lindsay Salazar, Styled by Noelle Wright. Courtney Little felt the squeeze. For years, she and her three children shared her 1942 cottage’s tight...
Scattered through Heber Valley this week are hundreds of artists hard at work at their easels, participating in Wasatch Plein Air. In the Wasatch back, the week of July 4th is synonymous with artists at work. I have seen them with brushes in hand staring out at a field of...
Like buried treasure, the glass-and-steel International Style home featured in our story "True to the Past" lay hidden for decades behind overgrown woods and a weather-worn fence, nestled in the shadows of Salt Lake’s Mount Olympus. That was before a team of professionals revived this time-worn modernist gem, bringing...
Red Rock Division Headquarters for Onset Financial sets a new bar for commercial design in St. George. For a year or so in the early 1980s I called St. George home, and I was enamored with the beauty of the red cliffs and desert, and I was drawn to the...
What does home mean to you? For husband and wife Jeffrey Sherlock and Katherine Chandler, it is their secluded East Central street in SLC. So when their timeworn 1911 dwelling there was deemed structurally unsound, they eagerly replaced it with a new house, using the same footprint but adding...
It’s no secret that many older houses have layouts and accommodations that don’t quite work for today’s families and they way they live at home. Such was the case of a Bountiful residence recently overhauled by designer John Eyring, principal of Altalux Studio. As told in our recent feature...
The glamorous powder room, an essential element of today’s home entertainment space, is certainly a step up from the humble half-bathroom.  It goes with the territory when you have done something for as long as I have been taking photographs of buildings and homes, that people ask about the changes...
With design emphasis on reception lobbies, offices are becoming more welcoming, friendly, and comfortable.  Making architectural photographs for as long as I have done, I have had an opportunity to observe shifts in design trends and approaches. Earlier, offices were very pragmatic spaces with strong attention paid to “usable space,”...
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In the shadows of Salt Lake’s Mount Olympus, a modernist gem gets a new life 60 years after architect John Sugden pioneered its design. 
DesignBuildBLUFF celebrates its 20th year with a legacy of sustainable homes donated to clients.  It’s rare that I meet a University of Utah trained architect who participated in the DesignBuildBLUFF program who doesn’t describe it as the most meaningful part of his or her graduate education. It’s a collaborative program...