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A Fork in the Road
House Beautiful US
|July - August 2023/Summer 2023
A welcoming Montana vacation home sits at the intersection of rustic and refined
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION ARE bound to come up when a house is being designed for more than one person. For a San Antonio–based couple building a holiday home, it was easy to agree on a location: Bigfork, Montana, a favorite vacation spot for them and their four college-aged children. But they couldn’t come to a consensus on aesthetics. “One wanted more of a white farmhouse and the other a woodsy retreat,” Seattle-based designer Kylee Shintaffer says. Fortunately for them, Shintaffer excels at elevated rustic style.
This story is from the July - August 2023/Summer 2023 edition of House Beautiful US.
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