In-built 1901, Seven Hundred Pearl has served many various functions, together with as a grocery retailer … [+]
With a historical past primarily outlined by the transition from a Wild West mining city to a hub for scientific analysis and the tech trade, Boulder, Colorado, is without delay rugged and refined. So, too, is the two,200-square-foot residential loft, Seven Hundred Pearl.
At first look, the downtown Boulder residence could appear to be your common big-city artist loft. However look nearer, and also you’ll discover one thing distinctly Coloradan.
A floating mattress hangs from thick rope in one of many residence’s two bedrooms.
Homage to the bygone period of the loft’s origins will be discovered within the particulars all through, together with a cluster of Edison mild bulb fixtures, partitions adorned with buffalo nickels and bullet shells and weathered wooden accents.
Superstar inside designer, Kari Whitman, whose residential shoppers embody Jessica Alba, Kristen Bell and Antonio Banderas, redesigned the loft in 2017. Whitman’s expertise in each residential and business design is on full show with an suave execution of making an area without delay industrial but homey.
A group of hanging Edison lamps make for a fittingly industrial but refined chandelier.
Beforehand the Racket Grocery retailer, which served the Boulder mining group on the flip of the nineteenth century, the house’s design capitalizes on this distinctive historical past as business area and maintains such options as excessive, exposed-beam ceilings, brick partitions and storefront-facing home windows looking at Pearl Road, repurposed for a modern, luxurious industrial residence.
A bedside hearth makes for a comfy bed room regardless of the grand scale. Large, sliding steel-framed glass doorways enable for extra non-public areas when closed or an ethereal, open-concept really feel when retracted.
A contemporary brick hearth showcases the house’s mixture of contemporary and conventional options.
Additionally consistent with Whitman’s trademark sense of styling, the two-bedroom, two-bathroom residence was recreated with eco-conscious sourcing, utilizing 80% repurposed or recycled supplies—9-foot glass panels from a New York Metropolis prewar high-rise, avenue lamps from France and, maybe most original, a wall of recycled leather-based belts.
Sliding glass doorways will be discovered all through the house, permitting for each privateness or an open-concept … [+]
Different distinctive design installations embody a metal-framed mattress hanging from thickly braided rope, recycled teak flooring and a residing wall of moss and sage.
Situated on Pearl Road, the $4.2 million loft is within the coronary heart of downtown Boulder, ripe with outlets, eating places and cultural areas. Out the door, a five-minute stroll west places you on the Trailhead, with entry to Boulder’s world-renowned mountain climbing trails.
Intelligent makes use of of recycled supplies, like this wall of outdated leather-based belts, give the loft area a … [+]
Francis Hagan of Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate holds the itemizing for 700 Pearl Road.
