Decorating The World

Mediterranean travel lends flavor to homebuilder’s design – Daily Oklahoman

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• 28 July, 2012
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But the Rices’ personal home in Edmond’s Sorghum Hill neighborhood, on Sorghum Mill Road between Bryant and Coltrane, is larger — around 5,000 square feet compared with 2,110 for the model — and it turns a different face to the world.The model home’s exterior is a rich mix of stone and tradition. The Rices’ home, on the other hand, sports columns and a Mediterranean air that summons to the imagination the sound of waves lapping up on a beach.“My wife and I, through our travels, like the Mediterranean style,” Rice said.So, much of their home reflects that style: a lower-pitch roof, an exterior combining rock, brick and stucco along with arbors and overhangs. The columns line the curved front entrance.“You don’t see many Mediterraneans around Oklahoma,” he noted.The Spanish cantera stone columns, made in Mexico, help “give our home the flavor, the Mediterranean flavor,” Rice said.Other than that, the Rice home reflects the designs of the homes he builds for others, he said.“You’ll find an interior style and exterior style,” added his son and building superintendent, Chad Rice, “and they don’t necessarily need to go together.”For the younger Rice, design considerations fell closer to home in 2003 when he and his wife, Melissa, built a house.“At the time I had a 3-year-old and newborn twins, and so what we needed was space,” Chad Rice said.So their home in Edmond’s Steeplechase neighborhood, on Coffee Creek Road between Bryant and Coltrane, offers bedrooms for each of the children as well as a retreat for the parents and a bonus room over the garage. With small children and dogs running around, they took things a step further, ripping up the carpet in several rooms and simply staining the concrete.…