A House With an Edge

The contemporary architecture Muse is trying to lure me into her bony grasp.
I recently visited a friend's newly purchased Charles Goodman-designed house in Silver Spring. Tucked into the trees, the bungalow style home actively rejected the colonial passions of the DMV area. So sweet. So manageable. So much a part of the other group of his houses on this street and yet with  enough details to escape a cookie-cutter label.

But here's where it gets dicey. Inside, they had gutted the whole house and turned it into an updated space with lots of angles and bursts of color. The hidden doors pulled me in, past my own instincts. I liked to look at it. I really thought it was stunning, but, in truth, I could not imagine living with all of those clean lines and sharp edges.

I'm trying. Really I am. I'm keeping an open mind.

And maybe a bottle of scotch nearby. That usually takes the edge off.