For a couple’s new home in downtown Bentonville, designer Melissa Hall Simmons creates timeless appeal by embracing natural materials
Beth and Blake Hanby were looking for something permanent when they set out to build in downtown Bentonville. “They have built many houses before and had gotten into the rhythm of building a house, someone would want to buy it, and then they would build another,” explains designer Melissa Hall Simmons who worked with them from the start. “They decided, Let’s build a house for us, where we won’t be displaced—and we want to do it right.”…


