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Home Schooled

Interiors, Fall 2019

Architect C.P. Drewett of Scottsdale, the Phoenix builder, Rich Brock’s Bedrock Developers, and Scottsdale interior designer Claire Ownby, ASID, collaborated on this sleek Paradise Valley home and three in-spirit adjacent ones. The one-level four-bedroom Modern home is transparent, without clutter: Outside are the landmark Camelback and Mummy mountains, which the Chicago couple enjoy with friends and family through large glass windows and doors or outside on beautifully landscaped grounds. Contemporary lines and materials integrate with details such as knotted wide oak planking, alder woodwork, a distressed acacia dining room table and petrified wood blocks in the great room. Darrin Kauer, the project superintendent for Bedrock Developers, aptly said: “I enjoyed the feeling of discovery when entering each room.”

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The Treasured Life at The Village at Silverleaf

Interiors, Fall 2018

The Rural Mediterranean-style villa comprises 6,924-square-foot on three levels, with a light-filled entertainment basement and an upper-level master suite. The two first-level bedrooms comfortably accommodate guests. Co-owner Lauren Rautbord is principal of Paul Lauren Design Consultants, a residential interior design firm which recently relocated from her native Chicago to Scottsdale. This and all of the available homes at The Village at Silverleaf are designed by Don Ziebell, president of Scottsdale’s Oz Architects Inc., and built by Rod Cullum, principal of Cullum Homes, also Scottsdale. Customized to fit their collectibles and treasures, the home synthesizes old and new, combining classic European design and repurposed materials with today’s open-space layout. “The end result is contemporary timelessness,” Rautbord says.

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