Emery, Teressa and Tony Estigoy
Good Neighbors FRIENDS MADE THIS D STREET REMODEL WORK
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ony and Teressa Estigoy live with their daughter Emery in an adorable D Street remodel. It took serendipity to turn the tiny home into a showplace.
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“We really wanted that open-thedoor wow factor,” Tony says. “This is a 1,000-square-foot home. How do you make it look bigger without having to blow out walls? You open it up as much as you can.” When you walk through the extrawide front door (complete with original brass details), your eyes are drawn past the kitchen and living areas to panoramic doors leading to the backyard. The wall of plate glass cooperates with a skylight in the kitchen to give
the house a sense of size, depth and openness. The chandelier above the dining table was chosen for its thin, practically transparent visual footprint, and doesn’t interfere with the long view from front door to backyard. Teressa, an Air Force veteran, bought the house in 2012 so she could be near her parents, who live next door. The 1940s house stayed mostly original until Teressa met Tony in 2019. “Teressa was a single mom, so it was a kid’s house. Bookcases everywhere, toys and stuff,” Tony says. “It was three
months before she even let me in the backyard.” “Actually, it was four,” Teressa says. Tony, who sells real estate at Sotheby’s International Realty, started fixing up the backyard, but the couple wasn’t sure what to do with the house. Then Teressa’s longtime D Street friends Cris Weber and Mollie Lyon invited them to a Christmas party. Weber and Lyon, of design team Flax + Stone, had remodeled their own home. Tony and Teressa were
