Scandinavian Modern Remodel.
Scandinavian interior design is a minimalist style that mixes textures and soft color palettes to make elegant, modern décor feel warm and inviting—clean lines, utility, and no-frills furnishings that are practical, attractive, and comfortable. This remodel carried that idea through every room of the house, and the Tricorn Black exterior, in five and a half months.
Featured in NOCO Style Magazine
Warm minimalism, room by room
Most remodels change finishes. This one changed the logic of the house. A single Scandinavian vocabulary — frosted white oak against matte black, wood slats overhead, concrete gray for weight, hickory underfoot — repeats from the great room to the coffee bar to the boys' bathrooms, so every before-and-after reads as the same calm idea arriving in a new room. The whole transformation, inside and out, took five and a half months.
See it move: the full video tour below, and the project as featured in NOCO Style Magazine.
Great room
The empty two-story volume became the house's anchor: a floor-to-ceiling wood slat fireplace wall with floating shelves and a mounted TV, concrete dome pendants overhead, and hickory floors warming the whole span. The furniture keeps the Scandinavian brief — leather barrel chairs in wood frames, a faceted concrete coffee table, a sculptural root-wood console, and a forged-steel floor lamp.
- Fireplace wall
- Full-height wood slat surround with floating shelves
- Lighting
- Concrete-look dome pendants; cascading brass stick pendants at the stair
- Floors
- Hickory plank throughout
- Coffee table
- Urbia solid faceted concrete
- Console
- Ibolili solid root-wood table behind the sofa
- Floor lamp
- Hubbardton Forge Stasis 59″
- Side table
- Perpetual concrete side table
Dining room
The builder-beige tray-ceiling room became a slatted-wood dining space centered on a live-edge table with a sculptural base. A wood artichoke pendant hangs above; seating mixes tall black cotton wingbacks and metal leather wingbacks at the heads with pewter-textured Barbana chairs and Tig metal barrel chairs along the sides.
- Ceiling
- Wood slats over the dining area
- Pendant
- Wood artichoke-style dining pendant
- Host chairs
- Narciso 50.5″ cotton wingback; metal genuine leather wingback
- Side chairs
- Barbana chair in pewter texture; Tig metal barrel chair with black leather cushion
Kitchen & fireplace table
Frosted white oak uppers float over matte black lowers beneath a concrete range hood, with wood slats running the ceiling and woven basket pendants over the island — now extended with a butcher-block table edge and upholstered stools. Beside it, the stacked-stone fireplace gained a black slat surround and a live-edge counter-height table, turning the hearth into a place to eat.
- Cabinets
- Frosted white oak uppers, matte black lowers
- Range hood
- Concrete
- Ceiling
- Wood slats throughout the kitchen
- Island
- Quartzite counters with butcher-block table extension
- Pendants
- Woven basket island pendants
- Fixtures
- Matte black semi-professional faucet, putty composite sink
- Stools
- Ansel bar & counter; Barbana pewter; Laredo white leather; Tig with black leather cushion
Coffee bar & wine wall
A pass-through of plain white cabinets became the most-used corner of the house: black lower cabinets under quartzite, a black croc-textured hexagon backsplash, and frosted white oak open shelves that wrap the corner under lighting. A beverage fridge tucks below; nearby, a glass wine wall between columns puts the collection on display.
- Cabinets
- Black lowers with quartzite counters
- Backsplash
- Black croc-texture hexagon tile
- Shelving
- Frosted white oak open shelves, corner-wrapped, with under-shelf lighting
- Bar fixtures
- Bronze bar faucet with round bar sink; beverage fridge
- Wine display
- Glass wine wall between columns
Entry & mudroom
The entry gets a custom statement: a metal pivot front door in wide corrugated panels, powder-coated black with chunky metal hardware, under a glass-shaded sputnik chandelier, with a glass railing keeping the stair light. The mudroom pairs black locker cabinets with a wood-plank hexagon porcelain mosaic against concrete gray ceramic tile.
- Front door
- Custom metal pivot door — wide corrugated, powder-coat black, chunky hardware
- Entry lighting
- Glass-shade sputnik chandelier
- Railing
- Glass railing at the stair
- Mudroom floor
- Hasley Manor matte wood-plank porcelain mosaic; concrete gray ceramic tile
- Mudroom storage
- Black locker cabinets
Master bath & powder
The master bath trades twin white vanities for black cabinetry, a freestanding tub against a wood slat accent wall, and Sedona 3D hexagon porcelain tile — all finished in champagne bronze, from the floor-mount tub filler to the shower set. The powder room grounds a vessel sink and brass faucet on Costa Bella Nero porcelain floors.
- Tub
- Freestanding with champagne bronze floor-mount filler
- Accent wall
- Wood slats behind the tub
- Tile
- Sedona 10″ 3D hexagon porcelain
- Fixtures
- Champagne bronze shower set and vessel faucet
- Powder floor
- Costa Bella Nero porcelain tile
Kids' spaces & remaining baths
The playfulness stays on-palette. The play room mixes a wood geometric chandelier, a hanging rattan chair, and a solid wood play table with crate storage. The boys' rooms build around cabin and tent beds with navy striped bedding, each with its own bath tile — geometric Canberra Decor II for one, steel-blue Angela Harris Inspira Oxide for the other — while the downstairs bath goes graphic with Kenridge Ribbon Black 24×48 tile.
- Play room
- Wood geometric chandelier, hanging rattan chair, wood play table with crate storage
- Boys' rooms
- Cabin & tent beds, navy striped bedding, animal lounge chairs
- Bath 1 tile
- Canberra Decor II porcelain
- Bath 2 tile
- Angela Harris Inspira Oxide 12×24 matte porcelain
- Downstairs bath
- Kenridge Ribbon Black 24×48 tile
Mountain modern exterior
The transformation runs all the way to the curb. The green-and-gray traditional facade went Sherwin-Williams Tricorn Black with cedar trim and railing accents against the original stone, finished with modern black exterior lights — a mountain modern exterior that makes the before photo look like a different house entirely.
- Paint
- Sherwin-Williams Tricorn Black
- Accents
- Cedar trim and railing against original stone
- Lighting
- Modern black exterior sconces
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A minimalistic style that mixes textures and soft colorings to make elegant, modern décor feel warm and inviting. It accentuates clean lines, utility, and no-frills furnishings that are practical, attractive, and comfortable — warmth through material, not clutter.
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Five and a half months, covering the great room, dining, kitchen, coffee bar, entry, mudroom, master bath, powder, kids' rooms and baths, and the full exterior.
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Slats add warmth, rhythm, and acoustic softness without ornament — the Scandinavian move in one material. Here they run across the kitchen and dining ceilings, wrap the great room fireplace, and rise behind the master tub, tying the whole house together.
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This one did. The befores in every photo are standard builder finishes; the afters come from a repeated palette — white oak, matte black, wood slats, concrete gray — applied with discipline rather than a bigger footprint.