Category: stick framed
Feb
CHALLENGE
Create a home that blends the traditional elements of Mediterranean design with contemporary tastes and materials, creating a transitional home. Develop different pods for the family to relax and work, as well as provide a locus to come together. Integrate the outdoor into the home itself.
SOLUTION
We chose to give the family a place to focus their own activities, whether it be work or play, as well as their common family interests. Lighting is brought into the interior of the home with the upper clerestory windows, and the outdoor living area opens up to the living room, blurring the lines between the two. Stucco, stone and timbers are used to bring out the old-world aesthetic, but the surfaces have been broken up to add more to the contemporary aesthetic of the clients.
RESULT
This home is fun to live in, as well as to work in. An exercise room, home office, play room, and private balcony all allow the family to have their own space. The open living/kitchen/dining/outdoor living are tailor made for entertaining. A tree house at the rear allows the kids to be kids. Privacy is valued, but shared family experiences are what is cultivated.
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Dec
A traditional Craftsman inspired home, featuring easy living, and perfect detailing.
Dec
CHALLENGE
Create a contemporary residence in the Boise foothills that is Modern but livable. This hillside home has a 50’ drop from front to back of the yard. Integrate the home into an existing, 25 year old neighborhood. Create outdoor living areas for the family to enjoy the long summer evenings. The north-slope orientation of the home needs to be addressed.
SOLUTION
We decided to work with the terrain, and not against it. The home is held down below the level of the street, and steps down to the back yard. Ample deck space is placed on the view side of the home in between the living levels, and the rear yard. Clerestory windows were placed on the Southern elevation. Simple, mono-pitched roofs cover the home, and it is finished with tongue and groove siding, and stucco.
RESULT
We have created an easy-living, contemporary home that is both interesting to live in and look at. By stepping down with the terrain, the home is held below the site lines of the road. This allows the neighborhood to enjoy the existing view, reduce construction costs AND provide visual privacy for the family.
Deck space creates a living area off of the main levels, since the rear yard is 25 feet lower than the living room. Wide, open views can be seen to the North, and Northwest.
Clerestory windows help to bring the southern light deep into the home. Being placed on a northern slope can be difficult, so these upper windows go a long way towards solving this problem by keeping a connection with views of the sun-filled sky.
The mono-pitched roofs provide a contemporary and sleek style. The stucco is easy to maintain, while including the wood siding helps to warm up the exterior.
The interior features warm, light-filled spaces. A small Zen garden is placed directly off of the master bedroom. An open plan is great for entertaining. Modern homes can be cold, but through the use of textures, materials, and volumes, we have created not a house, but a home.
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