News — Berman Horn Studio

Little Peek Featured in HIVE

We are thrilled to be part of the Design Leadership Network, who featured our Little Peek project in the summer 2021 issue of HIVE.

Farm House Featured in Gardenista

Gardenista celebrates our landscape design work for a farm house in Ancramdale, NY! Click to read the article.

Little Peek Featured in New Book!

We are honored to be featured in this wonderful book project celebrating Maine homes by Basha Burwell & Maura McEvoy! Click image for more information.

Little Peek wins a SARA Award!

We are honored to have won a design award for our Little Peek project from the Society of American Registered Architects!

Little Peek Wins a Maine Homes Design Award!

We are thrilled that our Little Peek house has won a 2020 Maine Homes Design Award!

Little Peek Featured in Domino Magazine

We’re so excited to have our Little Peek project published in Domino Magazine! The article focuses in detail on our screened porch and the process of design. Click to read the full feature.

Little Peek Featured in Dezeen

Check out Dezeen’s recent write-up about our Little Peek project. The article discusses the house’s design and integration with its surrounding landscape.

Little Peek Featured in Architectural Digest

We’re so excited to have our work featured in Architectural Digest! Click to read the article.

Little Peek on Cover of Maine Homes Magazine

We’re proud to have our Little Peek project featured in the upcoming issue of Maine Homes. Article to come!

Little Peek Featured in Dwell Magazine

Dwell Magazine featured Berman Horn Studio’s new residential design project in Maine in April. Dwell highlighted our custom designed, screen porch as an innovation in indoor/outdoor living.

Little Peek Featured “Project of the Day” on Architizer

Click to view the project on Architizer.

Hudson Valley Farmhouse Bedroom

One of our favorite bedrooms from our Hudson Valley Farmhouse project is this sun filled room with three twin beds for kids and friends. Wood floors within certain rooms were painted vibrant colors and contrasted with pale walls and matching trim. Bright American quilts and simple vintage pieces such as this punched tin pie chest create layers of pattern, color and texture in an otherwise spare space and make typically country furnishings and accessories much more contemporary.⁠

Modern Barn Renovation in New York’s Hudson Valley

We love this photo of our project in New York’s Hudson Valley. We renovated a 19th century dairy barn into a studio for an artist. We kept the existing historic elements such as the timber framing and divided light windows, but also added large new openings such as the one seen here. An over-scaled glass pocket door slips into the wall to allow large sculptures and canvases to be brought in and out of the space. When open, the fields, pastures and hills beyond become a visceral part of the space.

Little Peek Porch Installation

Many of you have asked us about the central screened porch space in our Little Peek house: whether parts of it are glass, how it works, and what the installation process was like given that this house in on a small island in Maine. We were incredibly lucky to work with a great metalworking shop on the mainland who specializes in marine construction such as building docks. They were able to fabricate our porch elements in their shop, partially assemble, and then bring the pieces over to Vinalhaven on their barge. Then, their boom truck took the pieces to the site and their amazing crew installed the porch frame over two days. Fun fact: the entire screened porch frame weighs under 300 pounds. ⁠

Simplicity, Balance, and a Refined Palette

Our Black Barn project is a working farm building surrounded by grazing cattle and the rolling hills of New York’s Hudson Valley. While designing this project we drove through the county backroads documenting other barns and outbuildings to study and understand what gives many such buildings the simple grace that makes them so appealing. We tried to distill these qualities into a new barn that focuses on simplicity, balance, and a refined color and material palette to create a modern structure that feels both timeless and at home among the surrounding animals and hills.

BHS Custom Lighting

Maybe it’s the glimmers of hope in NYC that’s making us think about light this week and the magic and brightness that it can bring to a room. But a light fixture can have equal power during the day when its own sculptural form takes precedence over the light that emanates from within. In this light-filled home in New Orleans, renovated for dear friends, the black leather pendant in the dining room creates a goth counterpoint to the vibrant colors and traditional shapes of the furniture, bringing light and darkness into balance.

Gardenista’s Garden Design 101

BHS is mentioned in Gardenista’s “10 Ideas to Steal from Organic Gardens Around the World” from their Garden Design 101 series. Our Black Barn project is highlighted for its use of simple forms and materials to create a sense of accretion over time, as if the space could have been renovated and added to over many years

BHS Featured in House & Garden’s Design Directory

The List, House & Garden’s indispensable directory for those looking for design professionals for their homes and gardens, featured BHS and highlighted some of our recent residential projects. Read the full profile here.

Welding Shed Boston Ivy

The gable elevation of our Welding Shed project. The traditional barn shape found throughout New England was reinterpreted in a clean industrial poured concrete structure. The severity of the form is softened by Boston ivy that was planted around the entire periphery of the building and trained up the concrete. Over time the ivy has enveloped the building, adding a living layer of green leafiness. Because this ivy is deciduous, the colder months allow the concrete to re-emerge, subtly tattooed with the ivy’s bare branches.

More Photos of Little Peek

Excited to share a few more photos of Little Peek from photographer Greta Rybus. The project, recently featured in Dwell Magazine, is named Little Peek because as you walk up the footpath from the water you get little peeks of the house through the pine and spruce trees and over the huckleberry bushes and rocky outcroppings.

BHS Featured in Remodelista’s Architect & Designer Directory

Remodelista featured our Pine Plains projects, which included painting and sculpture studios, the renovation of a historic house and the design of residential interiors, and a barn complex to house livestock.

Calacatta Dining Table

Detail of one of our projects with a custom-designed dining table. Made by one of our amazing carpenters, it features curved corners, cerused white oak, and a floating honed Calacatta marble top. This table is a new addition to Berman Horn Studio’s collection of custom-designed furniture and lighting. We work closely with our design clients to create unique pieces for their homes.

Bedroom Fabric Swatches

We’re putting together some moody colors and shimmery textures for a bedroom that isn’t afraid to be both glamorous and playful.

Paint Color Selection for New Restaurant Project

Selecting paint colors for the brick walls at a new Berman Horn Studio restaurant project in New York City. We love the history and wear of the natural brick coming through the layers of paint. Benjamin Moore is our long standing go-to for their off-whites. Classic and wide selection of rich tonal shades. Nothing better than looking at samples with our clients in the actual light of the space.

Process Models!

Bathroom tile schemes and studies for a new Berman Horn Studio residential project in Manhattan. So excited to be renovating this almost untouched loft and gently bringing it into the 21st century. We playfully experiment with unique ways to visualize design options with our clients.

Harlem Townhouse Renovation

Almost done! We’ve loved renovating this neoclassical beauty. We restored some incredible details and fully updated the layout, infrastructure and overall style to create the perfect combination of modern and traditional design.