An East Nashville house taken back to almost nothing and rebuilt — black siding, cut stone, and an antique door chosen for the front of an otherwise new build.
Technically a renovation. In practice, close to a new house: almost nothing of the original remains beyond what had to stay, and everything behind the front wall is new.
Black siding against a full-height run of cut stone, with a round window set into the gable and a covered side porch. At dusk, with the lamps on, it is the kind of elevation that makes people slow down on the sidewalk.
The entry door is the one deliberately old note — stained oak with leaded glass and a lion's-head knocker, bought as an antique and fitted specifically for this house. It was never part of the original building. It is there because a new house wearing one genuinely old thing at the front reads differently from a new house pretending to be old.
Inside, white oak floors and oak cabinetry run throughout, with a book-matched marble backsplash carried up behind the range and a window seat built into the dining end of the kitchen. The primary bath pairs black soapstone with fluted oak and brass; a second bath goes the other way entirely, in terracotta tile laid in a basketweave. An arched niche in green tile holds a wet bar with a wine fridge.
Out back, a deck off the rear of the house looks over the garden.
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