Two Cooks & a Cottage

Jacques and Carrie Larson’s West Ashley home looks contemporary from the curb, but it’s filled with meaningful pieces from the past and present, like this pomegranate still-life by Carrie, needlepoints by Jacques’s grandmother, and a red clog carved by his great-grandfather.

Jacques and Carrie Larson, pictured here with six-year-old son Jack and pups Lily Bean and Maggie Mayhem, hired Alicia Reed of Reggie Gibson Architects to help them transform their West Ashley cottage into a modern home perfect for the way their family lives and eats. Much of the landscape is devoted to edible plants, including an olive tree