When comparing the 2020 Smart Home to homes she worked on in prior years, Brooks explains how the technology gets cooler each year.
"You just don’t want sitting out looking like a piece of technology,” she says, but for the "products to flow almost effortlessly in a design plan that is forward-thinking, functional, and beautiful.” Fortunately, the home’s many sponsors-such as SimpliSafe Home Security, Keurig, and Sleep Number-offer products with styles that Brooks was able to easily weave into the design. When laying out the plans, she looked for unique ways "to either conceal or accent " into the home's aesthetic. " definitely has to play a character in your entire design scheme,” she says. When Brooks started designing it last June, she had to be mindful of all the cutting-edge technology that would be implemented. "With Pittsburgh being the steel city that it was, I wanted to use gears, she says, but notes "it’s becoming more and more of a city where you see everyone on a bicycle, so I also picked up on that." The result: an incredibly standout sculpture composed of dated gears and bicycle wheels that also was worked into a light fixture.īesides the decor, this home is called a smart home for a reason. “I always wanted to do something old that had a really cool fluid geometry,” she says, noting that she knew this home would be the perfect place for it. Inspired by a collage she had seen years ago fashioned from old bobbins, the designer longed to make her own version.
One of the first things you'll notice upon walking in is an eccentric light fixture hanging in the foyer - a piece that truly speaks to the home’s character. Brooks set out to design a home that not only paid homage to Pittsburgh's rich industrial history, but its current sports culture (go Steelers and Pirates!), and its future. "You’re going to see a lot of references in that house to industrialism," Tiffany Brooks tells House Beautiful of this year's build, a 4,500 square foot, four-bedroom, three-bathroom home nestled in the Wexford neighborhood of the Steel City. Local builder Infinity Custom Homes built the house, Brooks dazzled its interiors, and the sweepstakes sponsors pitched in their finest "smart" technology to make this home valued at $1.5 million a real gem. This year, the sweepstakes brought her to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to design a home that's compliant with the technology of tomorrow for a mystery family. But what happens when the client is unknown-just a name among many in the HGTV Smart Home 2020 entry box, say? Chicago designer Tiffany Brooks has been at the helm of the HGTV's Smart Home sweepstakes for the last couple years, surprising families across the country with unimaginable, avant-garde homes. When designers draw up a fully-furnished design plan, it typically reflects the client's taste and style.
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