Cheryl Weber

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Writer and Editor at Freelance

Contributor at Residential Design

Senior contributing editor for residential architect magazine, design and construction journalist.

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Case Study: Southcliff Residence by Harding Huebner - Residential Design

2 weeks ago | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

Step through the front door of this Harding Huebner–designed mountain house, and you might still feel like you’re outside. Through a glass wall in the entrance hall you can see the ferns and boulders that fringe a terrace and firepit at the center of this U-shaped house. Enclosed by a sassafras-clad great room and two board-formed concrete wings, the courtyard’s fourth side dematerializes in a forested hillside.
Case Study: Tetherow Overlook House by Hacker Architects

4 weeks ago | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

Distinctive geological formations often inspire great architecture, and that is true of the Tetherow house, set amid the dry volcanic landscape of Central Oregon. Its landforms are relatively new in geological time, having been created from lava flows as recent as 1,300 years ago. This particular site also experienced a wildfire that burned all the trees and foliage, further exposing the undulating pumice slopes and cinder cones formed by volcanic eruptions.
Case Study: Nauset Beach House by GOA Architecture

2 months ago | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

From their office in New Haven, Connecticut, Lisa Gray, FAIA, and Alan Organschi have been designing buildings on Cape Cod for more than 20 years. Their portfolio—encompassing single-family homes, educational and cultural buildings, and elegant vehicular and foot bridges—has taken them to many parts of the New England coast. Their Modernist residences, in particular, are rooted in the simplicity of the region’s wind-scoured farmhouses.
Case Study: Peach Court Garden ADU by Wittman Estes

2 months ago | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

Peach Court had all the architectural bona fides of the best vintage Craftsman houses: a welcoming front porch, generously sized rooms with exposed oak box beams, diamond-pane doubled-leaded windows, and a stately staircase. The owners, a young couple thinking of starting a family, had purchased the 1910 house for the long term and loved the neighborhood’s historic charm. But what it lacked was equally obvious. Like many houses of that era, it was inward-looking.
Case Study: Overbrook Overlook by BNIM

Jan 16, 2025 | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

Situated near the state line between Missouri and Kansas, this 78-acre farm has been in architect Steve McDowell’s family since 1960. He and his wife and son visited it only occasionally until the pandemic arrived, when their son started camping out there with friends. As the pandemic wore on, Steve and his wife Mary Ann decided to purchase an Airstream trailer to park on the property—a place to escape their house in the center of Kansas City, Missouri, about 90 minutes away.
Case Study: Telescope House by Wendell Burnette Architects

Dec 4, 2024 | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

It was the ultimate site on which to build a landscape-specific house, but it took Wendell Burnette’s discerning eye to see it. His clients, software designers who have a condo in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had been hiking and exploring in the West for decades before they decided to build a getaway that will eventually become their forever home. The couple asked him to help them choose from among several lots laid out in a loop near Sedona’s Red Rock State Park.
Case Study: Field House by David Coleman Architecture

Dec 4, 2024 | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

David Coleman, FAIA, approaches residential design with the conviction that houses should be “happy.” To him, that means buildings that have abundant natural light and break down the difference between inside and out in a variety of unexpected ways. Sometimes it means using bold geometries to create dynamic environments, especially in modestly sized houses like this one on 10 acres of grassland. The underlying notion is that houses should provide not only physical but psychological sanctuary.
Case Study: Meadow Lane Retreat by Wheeler Kearns Architects

Nov 20, 2024 | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

Located on a bluff above Lake Michigan, the rigorous wood-clad house designed by Wheeler Kearns began with a big program and a site that was amenable to nearly any creative vision. Indeed, the 21/2-acre property was a dream. Its views extended from the lake’s azure horizon to a deep woodland with a cleared-out understory, creating a stunning juxtaposition of the vivid blue lake and the tree trunks. What’s more, the neighboring parcel was preserved woodland.
Case Study: 4015 House by Observation Studio

Oct 24, 2024 | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

Where is the line between too much and not enough on a home remodel? It’s a question almost every architect and client ask themselves, and the answer is important not just in terms of time and money, but also aesthetics. This project presented all three of those challenges. The owners had one daughter when Chris Brown, AIA, began working on the design. Then twins arrived, and along with them a request to fast-track the construction schedule.
Case Study: OFFbeat by Nick Deaver Jes Deaver Architecture

Oct 9, 2024 | residentialdesignmagazine.com | Caroline Hetzel |Cheryl Weber

Vultures and at least one fox were living in this storybook house in Austin’s Travis Heights neighborhood when Jes and Nick Deaver’s clients first saw it. Having been derelict for a decade, its renovation was an unlikely choice for a retired couple looking to build a modern house on an infill lot. Until, that is, they met the Deavers. Architects Nick Deaver, AIA, and Jes Deaver, AIA, are a father-daughter duo who have thought a lot about the distinctive qualities of urban neighborhoods.