When graphic designer Amanda Jane Jones and her law professor husband, Cree Lane Jones, began making plans for a move from Chicago to Utah (he had just gotten a job at Brigham Young University), the perfect home practically found them.
The couple’s friends in Provo, a picturesque college town
with nature at its doorstep, proposed they buy the
mid-century modern house right next door. The 2,800-square-foot fixer-upper leaned Scandinavian with its clean lines and simple architecture, a detail that Amanda says more closely aligned with her personal style.
There was just one problem: “It wasn’t for sale,” she notes, laughing. “But it was the only house I saw that I felt really connected to. It was secluded and up in the mountains with this incredible view. I thought, I can make this work.”
HOME TOUR
This Mid-Century
Fixer-Upper Went From “Falling Apart”
to Family-Friendly
Now every room is set up for play.
Photography by Alpha Smoot
Words by Jennifer Fernandez
December 9, 2021
Tuck In Dining Chair Wood Seat, Sundays; Custom Desk, 57st. Design.
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