Anthem: A Mediterranean Home Reimagined for Contemporary Living
Anthem Country Club, Henderson, Nevada
Anthem is a full-home renovation located within Henderson's Anthem Country Club, reimagining a traditional Mediterranean residence through a contemporary architectural lens. Designed around expansive golf course views, the project focuses on opening the home to its surroundings while introducing a more restrained material palette, refined detailing, and a stronger connection between interior and exterior living. Through selective demolition, custom millwork, architectural lighting, and carefully considered interventions, the renovation transforms an existing home into a residence that feels brighter, more open, and more aligned with the way its owners live today.
Opening the House Without Losing Its Structure
The renovation began with a simple objective: strengthen the home's connection to the golf course beyond. A new full-height glass pivot door establishes a direct visual axis from the moment of arrival, while expansive sliding glass doors at the rear of the home dissolve the boundary between indoor and outdoor living. Inside, walls were selectively removed and spaces reconfigured to improve flow, light, and sightlines throughout the residence. A custom glass-enclosed wine display conceals a necessary structural support, allowing the floor plan to remain open while transforming a functional requirement into one of the home's defining architectural features. Throughout the main living area, vertical slatted detailing was introduced as a contemporary architectural element that emphasizes the home's dramatic ceiling heights while bringing warmth and texture to the space. Rather than relying on large expanses of book-matched stone, the slatted feature walls create visual scale and impact in a more restrained and intentional way, drawing the eye upward and reinforcing the home's vertical volume. The result is a home that feels brighter, more connected, and more fully engaged with its surroundings without losing the character that made it worth preserving.
Designing with the constraint, not against it
The most telling moment is one you would never guess had been a problem. The plan called for a fully open span between the kitchen and the living room, but an existing structural beam could not be removed without compromising the house. Rather than fight it, or pretend it wasn't there, the design grew around it. A custom wine display was built into the structural condition, so the beam and its supports became deliberate architectural moments instead of awkward interruptions. Clad in marble-look porcelain for continuity, the structure now reads as sculpture. The openness survived, and so did the integrity of the home. It is a small lesson in how the studio works: the best solutions often come from designing with a constraint rather than against it.
A lower level made for gathering
Downstairs, the basement was completely reimagined into a true entertaining environment, a sculptural custom bar, a dedicated theater room, and lounge areas, all carrying the same architectural language and material refinement as the floors above. It was never treated as a secondary zone. The theater was tucked into the plan for intimacy and separation while staying cohesive with the whole.
How it lives
For all the new openness, Anthem stays warm. Warm materials, layered textures, sculptural lighting, and strong architectural framing keep the contemporary direction from ever feeling stark. The home balances drama with livability, expansive views with intimacy, material richness with restraint.
And it always returns to that arrival: the procession through the glass pivot door and out toward the course, a moment of openness and architectural calm that sets the tone for everything beyond it.