A Modern, Elegant Home in Watkins Creek

The Watkins Creek home in Franklin, Tennessee is a complete whole house remodel: nine spaces across two floors, each with its own program and character, all held together by a design language that was established at the outset and honored in every room.

The unifying thread runs through material selection. Mikado Calacatta Tree quartz appears in the primary bath, the HER bath and the HIS bath, connecting the three most personal spaces in the home through a single countertop surface with genuine movement and warmth. Honey Bronze hardware from Top Knobs appears across the laundry room, the loft, the lounge and the powder room, carrying that warm metallic note through the home's service and gathering spaces. Duchateau The Guild Kayla 7.5-inch prefinished flooring runs through the loft and lounge, grounding the home's public floor in a single continuous material.

The primary bath is the project's anchor: White Oak cabinetry in Flint Hills with grooved solid wood slab drawers, Riad Tile Natural White Zellige in a vertical staggered pattern on the shower walls and window wall, a Tile Bar Basic Cement Grigio floor in a diagonal pattern and a Tile Bar Antique Lovina White Pebble mosaic shower floor. An MTI 66-inch freestanding tub and Delta Stryke fixtures in Champagne Bronze complete a bath built for a homeowner who uses it as a daily retreat.

The powder room layers Ripe Olive and Champagne stain cabinetry with Mikado Cemento quartz, a Native Trails Morro vessel sink and Delta Trinsic Matte Black fixtures for a room with a strong personality in a compact footprint. The HER bath uses White Oak in Tatami with Tile Shop Iris Venezia Beige Decor shower walls and Annie Selke Farmhouse hexagon floor tile. The HIS bath takes a different direction entirely: paint-grade Dune cabinetry, Delta Matte Black fixtures, Daltile Mythology Olympus Glossy sink wall tile and a Zellige Charcoal star-and-cross accent tile program that gives the room a genuinely bold character.

The laundry room shares the powder room's Ripe Olive and Champagne palette and adds a herringbone Daltile Brickworks floor and an unglazed terracotta Zellige backsplash. The loft is built in River Rock and Champagne cabinetry with Duchateau Guild Kayla flooring and Honey Bronze Top Knobs hardware. The lounge uses Dune and Bunker Hill Black cabinetry with the same Duchateau flooring. The living room, mudroom and additional spaces complete the whole house scope.

Across all nine rooms, no decision was made in isolation. This is what a design-build process delivers at its best: a home where the quality of the design is felt throughout, not just in the rooms that were photographed first.