Luxury Living

The rest of Jiang home is like many other two-stories, though Truberry didn’t base it on plans for any of its models. Anna’s “apartment” was specially designed, and other parts of the plan were altered to some extent. For example, the great room has a flat, 10-foot high ceiling that allowed for the addition of a second-floor office.

The kitchen and great room are combined. The deck is accessible from the kitchen eating area. Kelly had emphasized the importance of windows in the design, and they are abundant and generous in size, particularly on the rear yard side of the home. in the great room, a row of small windows was added high above the floor to allow light, but leave space along the wall for a television or other furniture.

The dining room is off the foyer and accessible directly from the kitchen as well.

Opposite the dining room is a “music room,” to which Kelly has just added a piano and where she plans to put a couch and other comfortable furniture. She expects both her sons to learn piano as they grow older. Austin is extremely into chess and soccer now, and his trophies are displayed on the corner fireplace mantle in the great room.

Kelly likes the dual stairways to the second floor, one from the foyer and one from the great room, that meet at a landing halfway to the hall, linking two sections of the upstairs. The feature was suggested by Scott Shively, Truberry principal, Kelly says.

The master suite, bath and walk-in closet are at one end of an upstairs hall, toward the rear of the home. A guest room is toward the front and has a Jack and Jill bath between it and one of the boys’ rooms. The other boy’s bedroom has a full bath. The office adjoins the hall between the rear bedrooms.

Kelly was involved in picking some other finishes in the home, such as granite for the kitchen. But she relied on Truberry designers’ expertise when it came to most of the finishing touches.

“i really like a simple life. if i like it, i go with it. Everything is standard,” she says, referring to features like cabinets, flooring and wood trim.

The house is very different, Kelly says – a necessity for meeting the atypical needs of an atypical family.

“We really built this home for her,” she says. “Anna is so happy. So i am happy.” v