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The new four-season room is 14 by 18 feet, with huge windows on three walls, a tongue and groove ceiling, and a mini-split HVAC system to keep it comfortable at all times of the year and.
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The house is on the tree line, with lots to see, and Naomi wanted to take full advantage of that opportunity.
“I wanted to be able to see the trees, and one of the things I really stressed when we were discussing the room with Rick and Jeremy was that I wanted windows ceiling to floor,” she says.
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Impressive crown molding, light gray walls and white woodwork are among the other features that define the new room.
“It feels like you’re walking into what my parents used to call a Florida room,” says Naomi.
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The Hoyts worked with Katie Lombardi of Dublin-based KDL Interiors LLC to decorate the new space. Naomi wanted the room to be “light and airy,” she says, a contrast to darker lighting and furnishing tones throughout the rest of the house.
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The beautiful flagstone patio is another new aspect in which Naomi takes a lot of pride.
“It’s a great environment to work in,” she says.
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The beautiful flagstone patio is another new aspect in which Naomi takes a lot of pride.
“It’s a great environment to work in,” she says.
When Naomi Hoyt got tired of using the dining room as her office, she pondered what she wanted in an office.
Among her priorities: privacy, comfort, climate control, aesthetics and – importantly – a great view.
That’s how the old deck outside the Dunmere house she and her husband, Sean, share with their two sons became the four-season room Naomi works out of today.
The couple worked with Rick Kelley Builders to turn their idea into reality. Though the company is based in Concord Township, just north of Dublin, it has Dublin roots – it was the first builder to sell a spec home in Muirfield, and Jeremy Kelley, son and business partner of the titular Rick, grew up in Dublin attending Dublin City Schools.
When the Hoyts moved into the house in 2006, they converted a formal sitting room into an office. Naomi teaches piano, and that’s where they located the piano. But over time, Sean ended up taking it over, and having to work out of an open dining room became inconvenient for Naomi.
The family loved the house, as well as the neighborhood and neighbors, and didn’t want to move. Under the circumstances, adding a room – accessed by double French doors – just made sense.
“I wanted something that I could be in all the time – that was climate-controlled, that could be comfortable any time of year,” says Naomi.
Garth Bishop is an editor. Feedback welcome at gbishop@cityscenemediagroup.com.
