The Modern Ranch | A Custom Renovation, Head to Toe
Some homes get a few thoughtful upgrades. This one got the full treatment. Every surface, fixture, and finish in this Boise ranch was considered on purpose — custom Pratt + Larson tile in the kitchen and both bathrooms, sculptural Manzoni hardware throughout the cabinetry, imported wallpaper in nearly every room, penny round mosaic floors in the bathrooms, vintage lighting from the entry to the primary suite, and a front door color you won’t forget. Nothing here is default, and nothing was left half-finished. This is what “head to toe” actually looks like when you follow it all the way through, room by room, without skipping the parts that are harder to get right.
We didn’t approach this as a series of separate rooms to update. We approached it as one house with one point of view, and let that point of view show up differently depending on the room — bold in the kitchen and bathrooms, quieter in the bedrooms, playful in the sunroom. Here’s how it breaks down, room by room.
An Entry That Sets the Tone
We didn’t want a front door you’d walk past — we wanted one you’d remember. The original slab was replaced with a custom door in a saturated burnt orange, set against navy walls, glass panes, and a wallpapered ceiling that turns a five-second entrance into a moment. It’s a small square footage doing a lot of work: the first material decision that tells you exactly what kind of house you’re standing in.
A Sunroom That Doesn’t Quit
That same botanical wallpaper doesn’t stop at the entry — it wraps the entire ceiling of the sunroom just past the front door, running dark and moody over herringbone flooring, white-painted brick, and a mix of wicker and vintage furniture. It’s the kind of detail that rewards you for looking up, and it’s what turns a transitional space into a destination in its own right. This room does triple duty as a reading nook, an art studio, and the hinge point between the house and the backyard patio, where a leopard-print umbrella and a full outdoor dining set carry the same sense of personality outside.
The Kitchen: Pratt + Larson Tile Meets Manzoni Hardware
This is the room that took the most patience, and it shows. The full backsplash is handmade Pratt + Larson triangle tile in a soft cream-to-gold ombre — each piece kiln-fired and slightly irregular by hand, which is exactly why it catches light the way it does behind the range and up around the hood. It runs the full length of the kitchen, uninterrupted, so the tile reads as one continuous material rather than a backsplash-sized accent.
The cabinetry is quarter-sawn white oak, and instead of standard pulls, every door and drawer carries sculptural wood hardware from Manzoni — an organic, leaf-shaped pull that we repeated on the refrigerator panels so the appliances disappear into the same design language as the cabinets. It’s a detail most people won’t consciously clock, but it’s the reason the kitchen feels furnished rather than installed.
An imported diamond-pattern wallpaper wraps the remaining walls in the same warm palette as the tile, so the room never feels like it’s mixing patterns — it feels like it’s mixing textures. A brass globe pendant and a mustard-toned island add just enough contrast to keep the space from reading as one note.
Vintage Lighting and a Dining Room That Doesn’t Hold Back
The dining area is anchored by a vintage sputnik chandelier, sourced for scale and shine rather than safety — it’s the kind of fixture you build a room around. Overhead, the same imported wallpaper family continues in a warmer diamond and grasscloth mix, tying the dining room back to the kitchen without repeating it exactly. A walnut credenza and a set of Saarinen tulip chairs keep the room from feeling like a period piece — it’s vintage-informed, not vintage-frozen.
The Primary Bedroom: Vintage Lighting, Reconsidered
Vintage lighting shows up again in the primary bedroom, but in a completely different register than the kitchen’s sputnik chandelier. Here, it’s a pair of saucer-shaped bedside lamps in warm walnut and cream, clipped to the wall on swing arms so they read as sculpture as much as function. They flank a channel-tufted upholstered headboard and a bed layered in a moody floral navy print — pattern that’s rich rather than busy, thanks to a restrained palette of navy, rust, and cream that repeats in the abstract art above the headboard.
Walnut nightstands and brass accessories keep the room grounded in the same midcentury material language as the rest of the house, while the lighting does the quiet work of making the space feel considered rather than merely coordinated. It’s proof that “vintage lighting throughout” wasn’t a line item — it was a standard applied to every room, including the ones that don’t get photographed as often.
Two Bathrooms, One Material Language
Both bathrooms in this house share a signature move: penny round mosaic tile underfoot. It’s a small, classic detail that keeps the floors from competing with everything happening on the walls, and it’s the kind of finish that reads as intentional rather than practical, even though it’s doing practical work.
The primary bath carries the Pratt + Larson tile story from the kitchen into a different register — a floor-to-ceiling white subway tile, set vertically with black grout for a graphic, almost gallery-wall effect, grounded by that penny round floor. Brass fixtures and a punchy marigold floral wallpaper finish it off. It’s proof that a small bathroom can carry just as much design weight as the rest of the house.
The second bathroom takes a softer approach — blush vertical tile in the shower, a sculptural asymmetric mirror, and a moody branch-print wallpaper that reads almost like line art against the pink. Same penny round floor underneath, same attention to every surface, entirely different mood. That’s the throughline of this house: consistent standards, never a repeated formula.
Custom, On Purpose
None of these choices happened in isolation. The tile, the hardware, the wallpaper, the lighting, and the front door were all selected to talk to each other — bold where it counts, restrained where it needs to be, and finished with the same level of intention from the entry to the primary bath. Handmade Pratt + Larson tile shows up in three different rooms, in three different ways. Manzoni hardware ties every cabinet run together without ever repeating the same finish twice. Wallpaper does the work that a feature wall usually does, room after room, without ever feeling redundant. Vintage lighting shows up as a sputnik chandelier in one room and a pair of saucer lamps in another, and both feel like they were always meant to be there.
That kind of consistency doesn’t happen by accident. It comes from treating a renovation as one continuous decision rather than a checklist of rooms, and from being willing to slow down on the details that are easy to skip — sourcing handmade tile instead of a mass-produced look-alike, choosing hardware that has to be special-ordered instead of picked up off a shelf, hunting down a wallpaper pattern in the right scale instead of settling for whatever’s in stock. It takes longer. It’s worth it every time.
That’s what “head to toe” means to us: no default fixtures, no placeholder finishes, and no room left to figure out later.
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