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Luxury Home Magazine - May 2004
Dynamic Duo
Inspired by the residential architecture of Barbados, where abundant windows and doors open to capture ocean breezes, this 4,500-square- foot, spec-built beauty in Charleston, SC., features a floor plan that wraps around an open-air piazza.[READ MORE...]
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Home Magazine - April 2004
Sneak Peek- A Look at the Construction of the 2004 American Home of the Year
For the second year in a row, Home Magazine, Kalman Construction, and Schmitt Sampson Walker Architects have teamed up to build a showhouse on Daniel Island, South Carolina, a 4,000-acre sliver of land that lies between the Ashley and Cooper rivers, just a stone’s throw from Charleston...[READ MORE...]
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Home Magazine - February 2004
Daniel Island Park Day - A Community Success
Over 1,200 visitors stopped by the Home Magazine tent to learn more about the 2004 American Home of the Year, currently in the building stages by Kalman Construction...[READ MORE...]
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Professional Builder - January 2004
Best in America Living Awards
The 2003 winners exemplify the best home designs available in markets throughout the country. [READ MORE...]
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Home Magazine - December 2003/ January 2004
Windows of Opportunity
Throw your house open to light, style, and views with these brilliant design ideas
Ever since people first punched holes in their grass huts, the primary purpose of windows has been to provide light and ventilation... [READ MORE...]
Produced and written by Carolyn Weber |
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American Dream Homes - October 2003
Timeless Simplicity
A family retreat combines a classic exterior with an interior layout that functions for today
The traditional shingle style so prevalent on Nantucket is the embodiment of timeless charm, but this is a recently constructed dwelling planned for a contemporary lifestyle. [READ MORE...]
By John Loecke | Photographed by J. Savage Gibson | Styled by Whitney Wise Long |
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Nantucket Today - September/October 2003
The Lure of Charleston
Comfort is in the Details
As the island population swells, there is an emigration in progress out of Nantucket by both natives and long-term residents. A surprising number of them are turning up in Charleston County, South Carolina. [READ MORE...]
Text and Photography by Peter Aiken |
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Home Magazine - May 2003
Home Magazine's 2003 American Home of the Year
Daniel Island, South Carolina
Comfort is in the Details
A case in point the beautiful kitchen and bathrooms in our spectacular American Home of the Year .
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By John Loecke | Photographed by J. Savage Gibson | Styled by Whitney Wise Long |
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Home Magazine - March 2003
Comfort Is in the Details
Welcome to our newest showhouse, where vintage grace meets modern amenities -- Location: Daniel Island, S.C.
A contemporary interpretation of a classic Charleston residence: This is how Kevin and Betsy Kalman, the husband-and-wife team who took on the task of building Home Magazine's American Home of the Year, describe the honey-hued, two-story stucco house. For the past year, the couple's firm, Kalman Construction, has overseen the design, building, and decorating of the house. [READ MORE...]
By Derick Belden
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Southern Living Decorating - Fall 2002
Spanning the Years in Style
Building in three phases lets this house grow with a family. Nuetral colors keep it looking current.
Southerners have always taken pride in holding to the basics of life- family, traditional values, a place cherished as home. A truly great house should be more than four walls and a roof. It should be designed wisely to adapt for a growing and ever-changing family.
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By John Loecke | Photographed by Josh Gibson | Produced by Colette Scanlon Ortiz | Styled by Whitn |
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Home Magazine - September 2002
Home Magazine's 2003 American Home of the Year
Daniel Island, South Carolina
Home Magazine is building a stunning show house Located on the South Carolina shore
Home Magazine has joined forces with Kalman Construction Corporation and Schmitt Sampson Walker Architects to build a show house that celebrates the architectural heritage of Charleston, South Carolina, and takes an in-depth look at how we live today. [READ MORE...]
By John Loecke | Photographed by Josh Gibson
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Southern Living Favorites - June 2001
Built for a Lifetime: The Lifespan House
Southerners have always prided themselves in holding on to the basics of life- family, traditional values, a place cherished as home. Today, however, with the explosive growth of many Southern cities, we have begun to lose that sense of community. Architecture, once a defining characteristic of the region, is becoming homogenized. It seems the concept of homeplace is being forgotten. [READ MORE...]
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House Beautiful - Summer 2001
Improving on the Past
Updating a 200-year-old Nantucket house for today's lifestyle, an owner-architect stays faithful to old-time charm and character
Carol Cross Wodtke, an architect whose practice is located in Boston, didn't have to look far to find someone to remodel her venerable Nantucket house, a favorite gathering place for family celebrations and vacations; she undertook the job herself, updating and expanding the 200-plus-year-old house for contemporary living without compromising its original character. [READ MORE...]
By John Loecke | Photographed by Sam Gray Styling | Styling by Biata Smoler |
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House Beautiful - Spring/Summer 2001
Shingle-Style Simplicity
A family retreat combines a classic exterior with an interior layout that functions for today
From the outside, Ronnie and Bill Scott's Siasconset Bluff vacation house looks as though it has stood behind its massive hedges since the 1920s or '30s. The traditional shingle style so prevalent on Nantucket is the embodiment of timeless charm, but this is a recently constructed dwelling, planned for a contemporary lifestyle.
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By | Photographed by Sam Gray | Styling by Biata Smoler |
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House Beautiful - Fall 1999
Reinventing a Ranch
Fresh White Trim. Plenty of Porches and a Portico at the Entry Add Much- Needed Charm to a Shingle-Style Retreat
It wasn't a pretty picture that greeted designer/ builder Kevin Kalman on his first visit to Robert and Dorothy Palmer's newly purchased vacation home on Nantucket. Sadly, despite the glorious location, the long, boxy house could hae been built anywhere.
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By | Photographed by Mark Samu | Styling by Margaret McNicholas |
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Builder Magazine - October 1998
Builder's Choice Awards
Winner of Custom Grand Award and Special Focus Judges' Award
Boston-based architect Graham Gund, FAIA, generally designs large-scale public buildings such as libraries, opera houses and museums with a contemporary flair. But his aesthetic revealed a respect for tradition when it came time to design his own house on Nantucket Island, Mass. [READ MORE...]
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Architectural Digest- June 1998
A Nantucket Tale
An Architect's Family Compound Restates Island Traditions
Surely nothing could be simpler than to say of architect Graham Gund that he has designed and built for himself and his family on the windswept little island of Natucket a house ideally suited not only to the family's informal way of life but also to its superb setting on a bluff above beach and sea. [READ MORE...]
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Remodeling Magazine - May 1996
The Big 50
When a firm's market is a 90-square-mile chunk of land surrounded by ocean, one might assume that options for business growth are limited. But making such an assumption about Nantucket Island's Kalman Construction would be wrong. [READ MORE...]
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Nantucket Magazine - Fall 1995
Creating Sunny and Breezy Interiors
Light and air bring Nantucket's outdoor beauty indoors
"I never wanted to own a house on Nantucket," Scott said with a laugh, only moments after guiding me through the front door and into her bright, airy, and open living area - a spaciousness belied by the house's simple, traditional exterior... [READ MORE...]
By Anne M. Phaneuf | Photographed by Jack Weinhold |
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Builder Magazine - October 1995
Builder's Choice Awards
The 1995 Builder's Choice Judges
Kevin G. Kalman is co-owner of Kalman Construction Corporation, a family-run design/build firm on Nantucket Island, Mass. Kalman, a second-generation builder serves the custom home and remodeling markets on Nantucket. He is currently testing the waters around Kiawah, SC by building a spec house.[READ MORE...]
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Craftsman Calendar
Bob Vila's Home Again
In the first half of the series, Bob heads to the Low Country: Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Steeped in tradition, this historic suburb of Charleston is the scene not only of a remarkable new home, but of a remarkable transformation in suburban living at the newly developing community of I'On. [READ MORE...]
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Country Kitchen Ideas - Summer 1993
Good-as-Gold Renovation
Flex a little creative muscle and invigorate your kitchen with an exercise in color. These two kitchens gained design strength by warming up with hearty hues.
For designer Luigi Bianco, the kitchen in the circa- 1830s Nantucket Designer Showcase offered this formidable challenge: Update the space with an efficient design and fresh style yet respect the dwelling's unusual mix of Greek Revival and Quaker characteristics.[READ MORE...]
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