The Windcrest space of Susie Hamilton and Marc Sauceda has become a well-designed orode to mid-century fashion aesthetics that reflects their distinctive design sensibility.
The Windcrest space of Susie Hamilton and Marc Sauceda has become a well-designed orode to mid-century fashion aesthetics that reflects their distinctive design sensibility.
The Windcrest space of Susie Hamilton and Marc Sauceda has become a well-designed orode to mid-century fashion aesthetics that reflects their distinctive design sensibility.
The Windcrest space of Susie Hamilton and Marc Sauceda has become a well-designed orode to mid-century fashion aesthetics that reflects their distinctive design sensibility.
The suburbs are criticized for selling a silly accordance, but beyond carefully carved courtyards and closed doors, many owners create individualized and even encouraged spaces.
He enters the Windcrest house of Susie Hamilton and Marc Sauceda, costume designer, costume stylist and director of advertising art, and he is country musician Jon Wolfe’s guitarist.
Together, the 1967 space bought in 2018 in a well-designed orde is intentionally executed to mid-century fashion aesthetics, but with a distinct sensibility.”We are more interested in the brutalist taste of the time,” Susie Hamilton said.referring to a school of architecture and design characterized by a modular “block” appearance.
It shows the geometrically patterned fabric cabinet from Lane’s Staccato collection that they got from the online grocery shopping site OfferUp.com.”When we got it, they had painted it to look like a quilt,” he says.”Each square another pattern, I identified it as a track with marked corners, so we took it to a repairman who stripped it of the wood.
For just two years living in the house, the couple have been busy in the same way they had left it through the previous owner.
“I hit this position hard,” Hamilton said, laughing.
They replaced much of the laminate flooring, for example, as well as the kitchen cabinets with glass fronts with Texas Star inserts.Plans require you to occupy the large number of white tiles ranging from the kitchen to the laundry room.
Perhaps the maximum application space is the kitchen, which is skewed from the rest of the area and governed through a giant semicircle counter that separates food preparation from the living room.
This is one of the first regions where they started the redesign, replacing those Doors of Texas star closets with minimalist facades that show almost no material, also moved the oven to make the area more effective and added a cut dark brick splash protector to the thickness of classic.Slabs.
The giant kitchen makes it a place of herbal harvesting when the couple welcomes the circle of family and friends, before the pandemic, of course.
“We had up to forty-five other people in space, and it didn’t seem too big,” Hamilton said.”The merchant told us that, in the 70s and 80s, it was the neighborhood’s party space.
The numerous Beaumont Mood lamps are another vital design element.Made in San Antonio, those perforated ceramic accessories were not only architect O’Neil Ford’s favorites, but also made their way, and can still be seen, in restaurants like Taco.Cabana, Jim’s and Bill Miller.
“Once I saw the Beaumont Moods already in the house, I became obsessed with them,” Hamilton said.
There were six accessories when they bought the house, one at the breakfast table, two on the fireplace, two on the garage door and one on the porch.Since then, it has added 4 more. More recently, he bought five more, all in beige, brown and copper tones, from a neighbor who collects them and has more.
“My purpose is to have 3 hanging independently on the dining room table like a great chandelier,” he says.”I don’t know what I’m going to do with the others.”
Like many today, Hamilton and Sauceda have had to balance their preference for authenticity in furniture with the budget constraints related to the schooling of 3 young people: Julian, 10, Marcel, 6 and Tabby, 4.
Thus, the Staccato fabric furniture is original (like the sofa of the master’s gondola and the creating of the living room), many reproductions are also scattered.These come with the Florida sofa and the café table in the living room, either of which mimics the “atomic age” popularized taste through furniture designer Adrian Pearsall.
But when they buy reproductions, they check the quality: the living room sofa, the coffee table and the Z rocking chair in the master bedroom, for example, were made through a now-defunct California company called Thrive.
“We took the step because all the portions were made in the US.But it’s not the first time With the same kind of quality and knowledge you get in an old room,” he says.”I was pregnant and very worried when we bought a lot of breeding equipment.I wanted to do things. Now that we’re here in this house, we’re more deliberately looking to create more original rooms.”
Finding those pieces takes time, they point out. Although the couple browse extensively online on OfferUp.com and Facebook Marketplace, they will also shop at retail stores such as San Antonio Furniture Finders on Blanco Road and Period Modern on McCullough Avenue.
“We’re still looking,” said Hamilton.Si we have 20 minutes, I’ll stop by a store and Marc will stay in the car, but we have to be persistent.We locate anything smart only every 3 or 4 times we go through somewhere.
They don’t make a big difference. They missed the sedan-style doors leading to the master bathroom, for example.Originally, it was one of the first things they planned to kill when they moved out.
“I’ve become so attached to them that I’m looking for portions to make them swing better,” Hamilton said.”I love you because when I’m angry, I can tell myself, “I passed here, but you can see me.””
They also kept the granite vanity counter in the children’s bathrooms because, as Hamilton says, it reminds him of his Italian mother’s house, in granite, marble and other grass stone surfaces.
“For me, it’s a time because it’s an herbal material,” he says.”I also liked the rose that runs through it.”
Around the granite, they reinforced the aesthetics of the 1970s by adding panels to mingle with the rest of the house, striking wall coverings with repeated geometric patterns purchased on the German online page Wallpaperfromthe70s.com and installing white subway tiles in the shower symmetrically, rather than turning off centered as it is done today.Hamilton explained that they sought to emulate the most elegant design taste of the 60s and 70s.
But his smartest reminder of the 70s is the pair of cried-down stems of the most sensible and butt hanging over the bathtub in the children’s bathroom, they look a bit like mascara lashes, and a friend said they remembered a safe Christian singer and evangelist.of that time.
The community is now called Tammy Faye Baker.
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