Historic Grand Tudor
Historic Grand Tudor
Renovations & Furnishings
2026
Wynnewood, PA
Yenhoa & Yaacov
From the very beginning, Liz and her team took the time to understand how we live and what was most important to us. Their attention to material selection was exceptional, introducing layers of texture, character, and craftsmanship that feel collected over time rather than pulled from a showroom. Every detail was considered, resulting in a home that feels unique, personal, and unlike any other.
The Project
In the heart of the Main Line, a stately 1913 Tudor had all the good bones a home could ask for, and a family of five ready to give it a glamorous second act. At 7,500 square feet, the house carried more than a century of character in its original windows, doorways, woodwork, and the beautiful fireplace detailing in the dining room, and our first charge was to honor every bit of it.
Set on the five-plus acres once known as Twin Hills Farm, this home began as a promise to the future. The original 1840 farmstead, with its barn and milk house lovingly preserved, now shares the land with the new 8,000-square-foot home the family built in 2022, along with the goats, chickens, and dogs that make the property feel wonderfully alive. When they first invited us in, they were a family of five with a tender, clear-eyed request: build us our forever home, and make sure it endures. In the years since, they have welcomed two more babies, and the house has grown right alongside them. It is a home made to hold a family for generations, and all the ordinary, extraordinary years in between.
What the family wanted next was a feeling: the glamour of an expensive hotel, the kind of place where walking into a room feels like an occasion. They love to entertain, so this home needed to be as gracious to a crowd as it is to the five people who live in it, gorgeous enough to make an entrance and warm enough to make everyone stay
Our Approach
Because this was a home meant to last, we began where endurance begins: the layout. Working hand in hand with the architect, we shaped every room to feel generous without ever feeling cavernous, so that a home of this scale could still wrap around you like something small and warm. That closeness lives in the details: the trim, the paint, the wallpaper, the reclaimed brick underfoot in the mudroom still bearing the markings of where each piece came from, and the corners we carved out for the children's art and their own dedicated places to play. The family's trust made the boldest choices possible. In the primary bath, an awkward run of windows became an invitation, and their open-mindedness let us float the vanities back to back to open up a generous wet room, water closet, and a make-up vanity all her own. Nothing here is precious. It is a home you can truly live in, the kind you might mistake for a gracious country inn at the end of its long drive, and the kind where two people still meet on the front porch each morning for the first sips of coffee, before the day, and the whole warm house, wakes up around them.
Earning this family's trust took time, and we were grateful to earn it. The client knew exactly the level of elegance she was after, and she leaned on us for the why behind every decision, from where the investment belonged to how each material would wear through years of real entertaining. That balance, luxury that can also take a life, guided everything. The kitchen, long and generous, demanded careful proportion, so we surveyed every one of her belongings until nothing was left without a place, then layered in metal accents on the hood and cabinetry, a geometric backsplash of natural stone, and durable quartzite counters that look far more precious than they are to live with. Above the island, we carved a wood-lined tray
ceiling and sprinkled it with crystal chandeliers. The dining room, a natural extension of the kitchen, earned its drama through dark grasscloth, green and black marble with a hint of 1920s regal, and two bars flanking the opening, one with a sparkling water dispenser at the ready. Even the smallest spaces make a statement: a powder room wrapped floor to ceiling in black and white marble, and a once barely functional primary bath reborn as an oversized shower with two of everything and a generous vanity for each of them, tucked thoughtfully around the original windows. It is glamorous, yes, but it is also the shower the kids love best and the powder room they use the most, which is exactly the point.
