December 10, 2024

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In a Sonoma Barn, a Design Couple Conceives a Cozy and Creative Apartment

In a Sonoma Barn, a Design Couple Conceives a Cozy and Creative Apartment

For Alex Mutter-Rottmayer and Austin Carrier, husbands and the designers behind Hommeboys Interiors and Haus of Hommeboys, the separation between life, work, and play is infinitesimal. Considering this, it’s no surprise that the AD PRO Directory members’ office, showroom, and home all sit under one roof. Their lives unfold in an admittedly nondescript circa-1970s Sonoma, California, barn—and that’s just the way the pair like it. That unremarkable rectilinear exterior sets the stage for a happy surprise when guests, clients, and friends cross the threshold and find exactly the opposite inside: a treasure trove of luscious materials pulled from nature and arches dancing across their ground-floor professional space and private 1,200-square-foot apartment upstairs.

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The transition from office space to living space happens in this grand foyer-like entry to the curved staircase, with immense 15-foot-tall windows (and custom Roman shades from the Shade Store in Kelly Wearstler fabric) and Eco Outdoor Arbon Limestone flooring. In the remodel they blew out the side of the barn to “volumize,” letting in light from the west that “refracts off everything and really changed the space dramatically,” says Carrier. Marmorino plaster, which they’d been dying to use for some time, covers the walls, while a Noguchi Akari B pendant hangs over the Bishop stool by Haus of Hommeboys.

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This is the result of an extensive remodel Mutter-Rottmayer and Carrier designed and contracted themselves, answering a major need for space for their rapidly growing business, which they founded in 2018. Now the deluxe interior is a true reflection of not only the idyllic environs beyond its walls—olive groves, vineyards, expansive blue skies, and prolific cacti—but also of the two men responsible for its loving evolution.

There’s history in the barn, which sits on a three-and-a-half acre family compound where Mutter-Rottmayer’s parents and aunt live in separate abodes. In 2015, his father offered to teach them the ropes of his design and homebuilding company with the goal of taking it over when he retired. That invitation, Carrier says, “was very mesmerizing. So we moved down here from Washington, essentially took hold of the barn”—which comprised a 40-by-60-foot rectangle and a 20-by-60-foot volume above it—“and started transforming it on our own, making it a space that was ours.”

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