At home: Her midcentury home in Lakeshire is one she used to know as a child – STLtoday.com

In both bedrooms the windows on two walls meet at a corner, affording a 180-degree view of the woods beyond, which are home to deer and several barred owls.

An acre lot allows the outdoor pool to be offset from the back of the home, where it becomes a destination. The walk to the water first passes a large patio enclosed by a low stone wall accentuated by built-in planters at the corners. The walk continues through a second small patio and down a hill before arriving at the pool gate.

We were fortunate the previous owner left us 10 pieces of John Salterini wrought iron furniture, Lara says. He was a well-known midcentury furniture designer whose work is still sought by collectors.

Laura enjoys collecting area rugs, and the daughters bedroom displays two on the floor layered on top of each other. The owls on the walls are paper cutouts Lara created before their daughter was born.Several real barred owls live in the woods nearby.

Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com

The couple spent a month last summer removing overgrown shrubbery and taking down a collapsed stone retaining wall in front of the home. Reusing the same stone, they reconstructed the wall themselves, and then landscaped the area anew. It was a lot of work, but we are happy with how it turned out, Ehren says.

The residence features exceptionally large windows in the front and back, and from the street passersby can clearly see through the residence into the backyard. When it is snowing, it looks like we are living inside a snow globe, Lara says laughing.

Ehren and Lara Leonberger, in their Affton mid-century ranch home, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. Photo by Hillary Levin, hlevin@post-dispatch.com

Lara and Ehren Leonberger

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