Renovation stories often begin with subtraction: walls taken down, furniture discarded, a home reduced to its bones before being built back up again. But how often does a renovation read more like an act of preservation? In this 5,000-square-foot, six-bedroom Chicago home, designed by Jennifer Kranitz of Set Setting Studio, the impulse was not to erase what existed, but to listen to it.
Rather than overwrite the home’s history, Kranitz honored its soulful details, layering in beautiful craft pieces collected on her travels through Mexico. The result is a modern home that feels at once deeply personal and richly storied.
