COVER STORY: Bold Homes

BY TRACY ZOLLINGER TURNER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KENDALL REEVES

If we have the privilege of choice, the environment in which we live is a reflection of who we are. The owners of the four homes featured here all share the characteristics of decisiveness, risk-taking, passionate vision, and a powerful sense of place.

Within the walls of these distinctive dwellings are two couples who abandoned brand-new custom-built structures in order to pursue and restore older, more stylized homes. There is a woman who grew up in a culture that fostered hospitable, welcoming domestic atmospheres who later found her inner Ralph Lauren-inspired groove. And finally, one daring Indiana University professional couple demolished a derelict house in order to build the madly modern, hardware-adorned loft home of their dreams. Bold moves all.