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FRESH STARTS
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f numbers tell the story, 2013 could be cause for optimism, though
knocking on wood may be advisable. As of this writing, the
Architecture Billings Index is up for the sixth consecutive month.
The list of improving markets has lengthened for the sixth
month running. Starts and permits are up, and the builder condence
index is at its highest level in almost seven years.
Many of you report that 2013 feels like a fresh start, too. But whether
its in Austin,Texas, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, or Minneapolis,
even the rosiest outlooks are tempered with this refrainthat an
eagle eye on the market and precise,cautious business strategies are
more important than ever.
This issue marks a fresh start for custom home, as well. Its our
debut as a quarterly in a package thats visually enriched, thanks
to a redesign by Hanley Woods chief design director Gillian Berenson.
Still, were holding tight to what has always been great about this
magazine.As before, well bring you the very best in custom home
design.As before, youll nd valuable leads on top-of-the-line products,
smart advice on best practices, and good scoop on up-and-comers.
As before, experts in the eld, including contributing editors Bruce D.
Snider and Cheryl Weber, will turn you on to their favorite discoveries.
In the world of food, the seasons are a heavy driver of editorial
content. In the home building space, thinking seasonally assumes
more permanence, for the obvious reason that building a house takes
a lot more time, investment, and resources than cooking a meal.
But great food and shelter have more in common than is at rst apparent
because both are about living well. On any given day, your job involves
lling manysome days it probably feels like way too manyroles.
But a big reason you keep doing what you do is to help clients live the
best life they can, in the best place possible.
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2. STEALTH SINK
Blancos Crystalline sink incorporates
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Crafted with the companys MicroEdge
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www.blancoamerica.com.
3. PLUSH PATINA
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sheet metal. Its striking, yet its subtle
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The b2 kitchen workbench is a
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The Tango pendant achieves dramatic
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StyleDrain Tile is a decorative shower
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is available in polished chrome,
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www.californiafaucets.com.
7. VINTAGE VANITY
The Wide Blues Console gets its vintage
vibe from curving metal grillwork and
circular-pyramid section legs. Rounded
edges continue in the white ceramic
mono-block vanity top that houses
two integrated oval washbasins. The
metalwork comes in polished nickel,
chrome, and light gold finishes. Devon
& Devon. 718.649.5882. www.devon-
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The REFLEX Aztec vessel sink, perfect
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Gold, copper, and coffee hued foils in an
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12. HIGH-TECH HOPPER
The SensoWash C toilet designed by
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14. UNDER THE VOLCANO
Pyrolaves custom sinks are made
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Pyrolave. U.S.A. 919.788.8953.
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Designed by Davide Oppizzi of DCUBE,
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Thirty colors are available for the body,
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The Palomba Collection, designed by
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866.696.2493. www.us.laufen.com.
18. FLOOR TO CEILING
Poggenpohls +Artesio, designed in
collaboration with architect and designer
Hadi Teherani, integrates walls, floor and
ceiling into a cohesive unit that reflects
the Bauhaus philosophy of form following
function. The base of the kitchen is a
design grid that brings together the wall
panel and base unit in a horizontally
linear arrangement. The arch houses
systems for lighting, ventilation and
sound. Poggenpohl. 973-812-8900.
www.poggenpohl.com.
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The Monsoon DCBL is a one-piece vent
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BY AMY ALBERT
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s interior design goes, the open kitchen is a relative
youngster. Its a modern idea, and with it come
challenges. Even in homes with traditional styling,
clients want open kitchens and all that they deliver:
the cooking space as the center of the action, with clear
sightlines to everything thats going on in and around it.
The kitchen as wide-open continuation of the living space (rather
than tucked-away scullery) brings its own set of questions, such as
clear and sensible spatial geometry, denition of function, sufcient
wall space for big appliances, and lighting. The hardest part is
visibility. It becomes more than just working space, because everything
is on stage and exposed, says Tom Shafer, a principal of Grunsfeld
Shafer Architects in Chicago. For a couple who wanted to stay put in the P
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lighting challenges for the open kitchen. A custom-crafted chandelier
made with parts sourced from a flea market works in tandem with task
and ambient lighting, illuminating the room in layers.
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an extensive remodel, designing the entire houseincluding the open
kitchenby following the homes existing lines. They wanted
to keep their memories and use the house with the next generation,
their married children and grandchildren, Shafer says.
Several elements in this open-plan area separate the cooking space
from the living area while keeping the kitchen an integral and clearly
dened part of the room.A work island of oiled English brown oak
became the centerpiece, notes Shafer, who adds that he and the clients
wanted it to be a magnet. The island serves as bookshelf, storage area,
work surface, and room divider. Its a great product for use around
water and food, says Shafer of the oiled oak workspace, which includes
an undermounted sink.
The home itself was quirky, as described by the architect, with
a high wood ceiling of Western red cedar.To give the kitchen a needed
sense of denition and intimacy, Shafer designed a dropped ceiling.
This delineates the cooking zone and houses recessed halogens on
dimmers that can serve as task and ambient lighting.The white dropped
ceiling bounces light into the cooking area, too.With its large, metal-
framed windows, the entire space living looks west to the pool, providing
the Palm Springs, Calif.,vibe that was desired (the house actually is
located outside Chicago). For the clients, the scale of the kitchen works
for all occasions and has become the epicenter, Shafer says. It has
changed the way they use the house.
In Austin,Texas, architect Paul Lambs client wanted a kitchen
where she could be in the center of the entire oor plan. Sure enough,
in this L-shaped house, the kitchen is nested in the right angle of an L.
An added challenge was that the client wanted the replace and seating
area to be facing the kitchen so that family and guests didnt have their
backs to her while she was working in the kitchen.A limestone wall
with a generous archway cuts through the rst oor so the kitchen
and living area are separate yet together.
The house has a family-lodge kind of style, with a 12/12 roof and
an 18-foot, double-height ceiling of Douglas r beams and planks,
so an open kitchen wasnt such a stretch.Those soaring ceilings made
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open kitchens, says architect Julie Hacker. When that modern idea gets
partnered with Arts & Crafts materials, one result is a multitasking room
like this, which can go from brunch for four to cocktails for 40.
lighting tricky, but Lamb designed a large chandelier, starting with
a circular steel tube 13 feet in diameter that serves as a lighting track.
MR16 spots throw light everywhere we needed it, says Lamb, while
old English lanterns sourced at a ea market provide ambient glow.
Undercabinet illumination provides additional task lighting. Even the
stove is a light source,with work lights that glow through a glass-fronted
vent hood. The challenge of an open kitchen is keeping it human,
says Don Crowell, general contractor on the project. Even though this
one has a lofty ceiling, the experience of the kitchen is a cozy place
where youd like to hang out.
In Chicago, Stuart Cohen and Julie Hackers clients craved
a home with bungalow character and detailing, right down to the
mortise-and-tenon joinery on the kitchen island. But they, too,
wanted a large, open kitchen that could handle informal gatherings
with friends as ably as it could big dinner fundraisers. The architects
designed an open room divider that separates the family room from
the kitchen while it joins the two spaces, allowing sightlines of Lake
Michigan from clear across the kitchen. The divider serves as a wine
storage area, work space, and display shelving for pottery. In dening
the room, it gets a graceful assist from a continuous band of crown
molding that wraps around the entire kitchen, crossing the divide
between kitchen and family room. The divider is sitting in space,
but its locked in by the trim, Cohen points out. Floor materials
underscore the difering functions of each space: antique French
limestone in the cooking area and 6-inch-wide white oak planks
in the sitting space.
Cohen and Hacker design mostly contemporary spaces, but even
with an open kitchen that has traditional ttings and materials,
the questions remain the same.As for the main challenges, Hacker
sums it up with a question of her own: When you have a room thats
one big space,what are the architectural ideas that allow you to have
the room perceived as a big open space but have dened functions
and sub-spaces within? she asks. Its like solving a puzzle. CH
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models. The custom home market in Santa Barbara,
Calif., long favored the kind of operation Doug Ford
runs: technically capable, tightly organized, and as
sophisticated as the architects, designers, and clients
with which it works. Until the late 2000s, other
exclusive enclaves around the country constituted similar, nearly
recession-proof microclimates for high-end builders. Not only was
work plentiful, but clients were willing to pay a premium for a
rst-class ride. That all changed with the Great Recession, which
confronted Ford and builders like him with a stied ow of available
work, aggressive competition, and shrinking prot margins. Santa
Barbaras real estate market began to improve in early 2012, and
construction is slowly picking up, too, Ford says, but its still harder
than it used to be. Do custom builders face merely the lingering
efects of an especially rough business cycle or, rather, a fundamental
shift in the business climate? And how should they respond? If youre
Doug Ford, you dont sit and wait for the good old days to return, but
neither do you panic and abandon principles that have been the basis
of your success. You adjust course, trim your sails, and carry on.
Our market is typically a lot of high-net-worth people and a
lot of second homes, says Ford, who started out as an independent
cabinetmaker in the late 1970s. He became a general contractor soon
after, believing that people of means would pay for top quality work
and attentive service. Over time he built a business that reects
that philosophy, investing in the staf, infrastructure, and systems
required to handle the most elaborate residential projectsand their
relationship-conscious ownersas a matter of routine.
Over the years, Fords project mix evolved into a balance of custom
new construction, large-scale remodeling, nish carpentry, and home
maintenance work. Since the downturn, however, the blend of fuel that
powers Fords machine includes a higher proportion of smaller jobs.
The larger projects that are out there are very competitive. Its been
tough to secure any of that work, he says. Not only are local custom
builders chasing a smaller pool of jobs, weve also seen a lot of builders
coming in from the L.A. area, and some [bidding] at very low margins. I
dont think theres a lot of relationship-building going on there. Ford
has adjusted his pricing yet still nds himself being undercut with bids
that make his head spin.
But while Ford has trimmed his margins, he steadfastly refuses to
join a race to the bottom. Weve been very aggressive with our trade
partners, and weve been as competitive as possible, he says, but
when it comes to [construction] quality and quality of service, we
wont give that up. We let people know that we cant compete with the
guy in the truck with the dog in the back whos running between three
jobs. It doesnt t our company or our culture. When cost becomes the
overriding consideration in a project as large, complex, and personal as
a custom home, Ford believes, problems are bound to follow. Some of
these [clients] are going through experiences out there that arent so
great. The bottom line is, we dont believe you can get a quality product
and a great experience without full-time supervision on the job.
Passing up low- or no-margin work has cost Ford volume, but heads-
up management has kept his company protable. Weve cut 40 percent
of our overhead, he says. We streamlined our project management
systems and our billing process, and we reduced costs on things like
Doug Ford
President
DD Ford Construction
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homes character. Because the roof describes a tapered barrel shape,
each of its curved structural members follows a different radius.
Cabinetry and a change in floor elevation separate the kitchen and family
room. Architect: Ferguson-Ettinger Architects, Santa Barbara, Calif.
phones; we just negotiated better deals on things. Ford also shifted the
companys mix of projects to favor remodeling and home maintenance,
where prot margins have remained strong. Overall, our revenues have
dropped by about 35 percent, he says. But our margins on the smaller
jobs are higher, so were running something like 5 to 7 points higher
in margins than we were.The blend is at about 25 percent. Our margins
have gone up every year over the last three years.
Refusing to chase work that undermines his business model has
allowed Ford to concentrate on the clientele that appreciates what his
company ofers. Were working for the same type of client [as before
the recession], he says. In fact, some of them are our past clients.
As always, Ford ofers them a choice of pricing structures. Fixed-cost
contracts carry slightly higher margins for the company, he says, but
if our client really feels more comfortable with cost-plusand thats
complete open-book project management and costingwell do it.
With both methods, the company applies the same rigorous estimating
and cost-reporting regime. The client always knows where the project
is going, Ford says. Just sending bills is not the way we work.
After years of a punishing downturn, even with some light nally
showing on the horizon, a businessman might well question his
own long-held principles. Ford counsels colleagues to change their
practices as conditions dictate, but never to abandon their core
values. Everybody in your company would be lost, he says. Youd
be rudderless. For his part, Ford seems never to have wavered in
his commitment to what might be called the custom builders gold
standard: an approach that brooks no compromise in performance
or respect for both the craftsperson and the customer. Ive been in
business in Santa Barbara for 34 years, Ford says, and Ive always said
the same thing: Do the right thing. Even if it costs us here or there, if
we do the right thing for our clients, it always pays of in spades. CH
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James Trahan graduated with multiple
honors from Louisiana State University
and is a past recipient of the AIA Young
Architects Award. The up-and-coming
architect began his career at a small rm
in Phoenix designing mostly light commercial
projects. Trahan enjoyed the work, but was
frustrated by frequent communication
disconnects with contractors. Rather than
complain about the problem, he decided
to x it by becoming a licensed contractor
and starting his own design/build rm.
I actually took the residential licensing test
by mistake, Trahan admits, but hes glad
he did because it was a house that launched
his edgling rm into the stratosphere
of Phoenixs construction elite.
I originally intended to only build
projects we designed, Trahan explains,
but we won a competition with a house
we did and suddenly all of these prominent
architects were asking us to build their
designs. As the rms client list grew,
Trahan began hiring, but he sought out
recent architecture graduates rather than
experienced contractors. The strategy was
to avoid communication issues by selecting
people who could already interpret plans
and be taught the rest. I hired staf with
architecture backgrounds, Trahan says,
so theyd understand what I or another
architect were talking about in our designs.
Each new employee at 180 Degrees
goes through intensive training. The
program is similar to an apprenticeship,
but covers all steps of producing a building
from conception to completion.The staf
member who designs a particular project
follows it through construction, serving
as architect, project manager, client liaison,
site supervisor, craftsperson, and more.
In addition to teaching each employee every
job, this arrangement means that the person
who knows the project best also is the one
building it.
The training creates better builders
because they understand the concepts
behind the design. It also improves their
architecture skills because they know how
things go together. The approach creates a
group of designer/builders who are capable
of creating highly complex projects. The
company incorporates extensive 3D modeling
into their designs as well as projects where
they act only as the general contractor.
We do our own drawings even when we
get construction drawings from architects,
Trahan says. We basically go back and
rebuild a project with three-dimensional
drawings so we know exactly how it works
and goes together.
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budget. It helps with cost estimates that
a lot of fabrication is done in house, which
also yields higher quality and ability to
handle complex designs. We have about
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do custom design and fabrication of furniture,
cast concrete, glass installation, and specialty
nishes, Trahan explains. He adds that
many architects choose the rm because of
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to a multitrack family life.
BY BRUCE D. SNI DER
PARALLEL PLAY
Design Studio
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very custom home responds to a clients
unique program; thats what makes it
custom. But Sams Creek began with an
unusual combination of requirements.
Its owners, the parents of two young
children, also are a classic New York
power couple. Hes in nance; she runs
a 60-person PR agency. Shes really
a multitasker, says architect Paul Masi.
They have parties of 20 children and
entertain 30 adults at the same time, some of whom are clients. To
help manage their overlapping family and professional lives, Masi
and his partner Harry Bates designed the new house as a grouping
of connected pavilions, each serving a specic set of functions.
Theyre almost like separate buildings, says Masi of the open-
ended boxes that make up the building. Theres a connection
between them, but theyre allowed to be separate. Oriented toward
the north and southand screening out neighboring houses at the east
and westthe interlocking volumes open onto sheltered courtyards
and hedge-bordered lawns. Despite a relatively tight neighborhood
location, Masi says, youre really just looking out into the landscape.
A high, glass-walled living and dining pavilion stands at the
center of the composition, linking the kitchen and family room to
the east, and family bedrooms to the west. A transparent gateway
between the formal entrance and the main patio, the central pavilion
accommodates large gatherings that ow comfortably onto the main
patio and into the kitchen without disturbing the houses more
private zones. A pair of two-bedroom guest quarters, at opposite ends
of the house, mirror each others compact oor plan. The pool house,
conceived as a detached fragment of the main house, serves as
a fth guest suite. Theres denitely an efciency we were trying
to achieve, keeping the house as small as possible with this number
of bedrooms, Masi says.
An abbreviated palette of rich materials unies the loose-jointed
oor plan. Mahogany exterior siding wraps into the house, where it
covers walls, oors, and ceilings. Travertine pavers form an unbroken
plane from the entrance walk, across the living room oor, and into
the backyard hardscape. To keep the number of materials down, we
even carved the stone to make grills in the oor, says Masi, referring
to the HVAC. His rm also designed the houses interiors.The resulting
integration of architecture and furnishings reects the architects goal
of letting it be about the geometry rather than about the materials.
Where a material moves to the foreground, it does so with authority.
The replace that divides the living and dining room, a steel-framed
structure clad in slatted bronze plates, asserts a strongly sculptural
presence. Builder Stephen Breitenbach points out that the assembly
also conceals mechanical equipment, a coat closet, and a structural
moment frame that provides rigidity to the entire pavilion. Rather than
gas jets, the hearth holds a troughlike alcohol burner set in a bed of
brass BBs. Thats a ueless replace, Breitenbach says.The hood above
leads to a skylight, he explains, so instead of smoke wafting up, during
the daytime, light comes down that shaft over the replace.
The kitchen works a similar trick, with a rooftop monitor that pours
light into a recessed counter area lined with travertine.The back wall
of the recess borrows its lapped pattern from the buildings exterior,
where the same detailalso in travertineaccents the window
walls. We had special stainless steel wire clips fabricated for that,
Breitenbach says. Elsewhere, the room draws from the houses core
palette, with hinged mahogany panels concealing the refrigerator,
storage cabinets, and a wood-burning brick pizza oven.The consistency
of materials gives the kitchen the sense of being another entertaining
space, Masi says.
But every party ends eventually, so the house reserves a few visual
treats for its owners alone.The master bedroom centers on a built-in
bed whose high headboard repeats the replaces cladding pattern, but
in leather rather than bronze.The master baths focal point is a vessel
tub, bracketed by the rooms etched glass shower and toilet enclosures
and backed by a panel of narrow ceramic tiles.The custom light xture
above, with its dangling curtain of bead chain, echoes the tiles rainlike
pattern. It has the same efect as water, Masi says. CH
Selective Focus The houses interlocking,
open-ended forms direct views toward
landscaped yards, screening out neighboring
houses at both sides.
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Project Credits: Builder: Breitenbach Builders, Bridgehampton, N.Y.;
Architect: Bates Masi + Architects, Sag Harbor, N.Y.; Structural engineer:
Steven L. Maresca, Hampton Bays, N.Y.; Photographer: Bates Masi +
Architects; Resources: Cabinetry: Ciufo Cabinetry; Countertops: Corian;
Decorative hardware: Accurate, Emtek, Hafele, Johnson; Disposal:
Insinkerator; Faucets/Fittings: Kallista; Paints/Stains: Benjamin Moore;
Sinks: Julien, Kallista; Windows: Arcadia
Material Witness Clockwise, from left: Bronze
plates clad the fireplace that divides the living
and dining areas. Its vertical element contains
a coat closet; the chimney leads to a skylight.
In the master bathroom, a custom light fixture
fabricated with bead chainone of several
that Bates Masi + Architects designed for this
projectechoes a panel of narrow vertical
wall tile at the tub. A ceiling-height room
divider creates a sheltering surround at the
master bedrooms built-in bed. The headboard
repeats the fireplaces slatted pattern, but in
leather instead of bronze. The kitchen island
is faced with the same mahogany that covers
the buildings interior and exterior walls. The
stainless steel counter includes a recessed
drainboard with a cutting board insert. The
kitchens breakfast booth enjoys a widescreen
view of the yard.
Design Studio
A deft remodel opens up a venerable
northern California cottage.
BY BRUCE D. SNI DER / PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHEW MI LLMAN
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can be less than the most willing of
creative partners. But when equally
gifted members of these not-
always-allied professions work as a
team, the results can be impressive.
Witness this Victorian-era cottage
in the northern California town of
Larkspur. Interior designer Carol
Knorpp bought the house with her
real estate developer husband, Jon, and hired architect Ken Linsteadt
to design a top-to-bottom remodel. I had worked with Ken before,
says Knorpp, who calls the architect one of the most creative people
Ive ever come across in the business. Their seamless collaboration
here yielded a residence that is both historically grounded and fresh,
personal yet quintessentially Californian.
Knorpp says the house drew her, in part, because it hadnt been
touched in 50 years. But its historic designation meant that any
exterior alterations would be subject to review board approval. Its
congurationa single-level plan with a semi-nished basement and
an unnished atticposed additional challenges. Including nished
and unnished areas, the house ofered the potential of more than
4,000 square feet of living space, but it wasnt very user friendly,
Knorpp says.The main levels elevation, nearly a full story above grade,
was an especially high hurdle, Linsteadt notes. For a lot of people, that
would have been a deal-breaker, he says.
Because the rst order of business was to connect living areas with
the outdoors, Linsteadt lled an open corner of the buildings footprint
with a large, elevated deck. Given the houses regulatory constraints,
most of our other moves were internal, he says. Gutting the lower
level yielded space for a two-bedroom childrens suite and a guest
quarters.A 1960s-era garage addition became a recreation room with
direct access the backyard pool.Three discreet dormers and two new
staircasesone for general use and one for secondary egressopened
up a gemlike space at the attic level. Upstairs, youre almost in a nest.
Its three stories up, so it gets extraordinary light, Knorpp says. We
grabbed that for the master suite, Linsteadt adds, which left the main
oor for living spaces.
Structural edits and repurposing of existing rooms at the main
level updated a choppy Victorian oor plan, locating formal and private
functions at the front of the house and casual spaces at the rear.
The heart of the house is now moved to the back, says Linsteadt,
who linked the kitchen, family room, and deck in a carefully composed
sequence of living spaces. One of the bigger decisions we made was
disconnecting the family room from the kitchen. But the resulting
plan, with its choice of indoor and outdoor circulation paths, ofers
a richer experience than would a great-room layout. It makes this
interesting loop, he says. At its huband at the center of family life
is the kitchens breakfast bay, whose deceptively oversize windows ofer
a treetop-level view of Marin Countys iconic Mount Tamalpais.
One good thing about being up so high is we have wonderful light,
Knorpp says. Her kitchen capitalizes on that resource with abundant
glazing and a pale palette of subtly textured materials.The walls and
ceilings are tongue-and-groove wood paneling with joints that show
random unpainted gaps.The oor is salvaged white oak with a hand-
scraped surface; the same material, left rough, covers the range hood.
Countertops are Calacatta marble, except for a section of stainless
steel at the range recess. The glass-front cabinets draw on the old
butlers pantry model.
Throughout the project, Knorpp and Linsteadt sought sweet-spot
solutions that would highlight the houses historical character while
gently nudging it in a more contemporary direction. Presented with
an 11-foot ceiling height at the main oor, they raised door openings
there by more than a foot. We replaced the casings with something
more modest, Linsteadt says. Theres still detail there, but its less
gingerbready. The master bedrooms horizontal paneling, while new,
allows a hint of the former attics character to ghost through. An
eclectic mix of lighting xtures, sourced from Italy, Spain, Belgium,
and the U.S., seasons the projects enlightened nostalgia with a dash
of ironic humor. Such deft moves represent not only the fruits of
a successful design partnership, but also a kind of gift to the house
itself. It needed so much, Knorpp says. But we didnt want to take
out the history. We didnt want to take the soul out of the house. CH
Ground Control Located at the hub of
circulation among the kitchen, deck, and family
room, the breakfast bay is the most popular
spot in the house. Its deceptively oversize
windows offer views of Mount Tamalpais.
Project Credits: Builder: Floyd Construction, San Rafael, Calif.; Architect:
Ken Linsteadt Architects, San Francisco; Interior designer: KB Design,
Larkspur, Calif.; Living space: 4,500 square feet; Site: 0.5 acre; Construction
cost: Withheld; Resources: Bathroom plumbing xtures: Waterworks;
Dishwasher: Miele; Fireplace: Isokern; Hardware: Ashley Norton;
Interior doors: TruStile; Kitchen plumbing xtures: Blanco; Lighting
xtures: Ameico, Hemera; Paints and stains: Benjamin Moore; Range:
Wolfe; Refrigerator: Sub-Zero
Victorian Perfection Moving casual living
spaces to the rear made the houses original
first-floor rooms available for more formal
purposes. While easily accessible from the
kitchen, the dining room and its adjoining sitting
room offer a quieter setting than the familys
daily gathering places (top). Required as a
secondary means of egress, this compact stair
also provides a shortcut from the master suite
to the first-floor library (above, right).
The picturesque entry elevation is little changed
since the Victorian era. Nearly a full story above
grade, the houses main-floor living spaces offer
views in every direction (above, left). Taking
advantage of the original 11-foot-high ceilings,
the renovation included new, taller doorways
that maximize the penetration of natural light.
An eclectic mix of lighting fixtures adds
a contemporary touch that complements
the houses vintage character (opposite page).
Design Studio
A Sonoma house embraces site and sky
BY BRUCE D. SNI DER /
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHEW MI LLMAN
UPWARD
MOBILITY
Inside Out A concrete floor (top) flows to the
patio and pool deck, which has a sauna,
changing area, half bath, and outdoor kitchen.
The copper-clad chimney (right) is a hat-tip to
the owners roots, in Michigan mining country.
L
ocated in the hills above Californias
Sonoma Valley,Sonoma Mountain House
occupies a high,sloping site shaded by
towering trees. You climb a long,winding
drive to get to the site, says architect Richard
Schuh,then youre surrounded by these
classic California trees: rs,redwoods,oaks,
and madrones. Schuh insisted on saving
as much of that standing timberand
of the sites existing topographyas possible
in this project,designing the house as a largely transparent platform for
living,entertaining,and,most important,simply being here.
Schuhs clients, a couple embarking on post-retirement life, envisioned
a casual mode for their new home. This was to be their transition from
living in the city, a place where they could just relax and absorb the setting,
Schuh says.To accommodate frequent visitors without cramping the open-
plan lifestyle they sought, Schuh divided the program into two structures
a main house and a guesthouselinked by a linear deck that runs the length
of both buildings. The grade drops of dramatically, he says, so the deck
can bridge to the guest house. Its this spine that holds things together.
The main houses L-shaped plan orients its private wing upslope,where
it digs into the hillside. It gives you the sense of tucking into the site, Schuh
says. Its kind of the opposite of the guest house,which hovers above the
site. The topography falls away along the entry wall of the houses great
room wing as well, permitting on-grade access to the garage below. Schuh
located the kitchen and dining areas at the hinge of the L,where they open
onto the linear deck and a pool terrace at the houses northeast side. Like
the house itself,the pool meets the grade at its uphill side,Schuh says,but
then it shoots out into the landscape.
Schuh heightened the tree house atmosphere inside with a shed roof that
oats over a tall,glazed clerestory.Tubular steel struts shorten the efective
span of the rafters,which also benet from the cantilever efect of the roofs
12-foot overhang,permitting the use of relatively small 6-inch-deep,wide-
ange I-beams. We used steel because we wanted to keep the framework
as light and airy as possible, Schuh says. Laminated r decking boards span
the 8-foot bays without purlins,so we were able to keep the roof prole really
thin. And while the ceiling planes skyward trajectory draws ones gaze out
into the treetops,the roof structure asserts its own sculptural presence.
Most of the walls dont go up to the main roofjust two interior walls
doso theres always this sense of it hovering over the space, Schuh says.
A similar roof tops the two-story guesthouse,whose upper level shares
the oor elevation of the main house. It has a living room upstairs and
bedrooms downstairs, Schuh says, but theyre not connected inside,
which allows the guest living area to serve as an overow living space.
Despite their close connection, however, the two structures ofer subtly
diferent experiences of the site.The main house is grounded by its board-
formed foundation walls, which extend outward from the building to
become site retaining walls. In contrast, the guesthouse perches lightly
on a scafoldlike steel framework.As the building rises into the forest
canopy, Schuh says, the site just ows through underneath. CH
Project Credits: Architect: Nielsen: Schuh Architects, Sonoma, Calif.; Builder:
The Gray Co., Sonoma; Structural engineer: Jankovsky Engineering Services,
Cloverdale, Calif.; Landscape architect: Nielsen : Schuh Architects; Project size:
3,350 square feet (main house), 850 square feet (guest house); Site size: 10 acres
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HEAVEN AND HILL
A sunrise-to-sunset pavilion puts down Texas roots.
BY CHERYL WEBER, LEED AP / PHOTOGRAPHS BY CASEY DUNN
S
ituated on a plateau a full mile from the
main house, Lake|Flatos 2,375-square-foot
pool house has nearly wraparound views
of Texas Hill Country. The clients, who own
a large ranch where the rm has designed
multiple buildings over the years, asked
for a contemporary outdoor room like the
open-air pavilions in Thailand, where the
husband frequently travels for work.
Years ago, the spot had been marked
informally with a re pit and vintage Airstream trailer, smartly
remodeled, that sat in the hot sun. They thought we should pull the
trailer away, but we said, We love it, lets design for it, says project
architect Karla Greer. The new pool pavilion is composed of three
simple elements whose materials echo those on the main house: ipe
decking, an open steel superstructure with a roof that tips up to the
south, and two thick Texas limestone boxes that run perpendicular
to each other, blocking the summer sun and winters northwesterly
winds. The smaller masonry volume holds a full kitchen and media
center, both of which can be closed of with slatted Western red cedar
doors. The owners are huge cooks, says Greer, so kitchen ttings
are deluxe, including a Viking grill, a wok cooker, an oven, and a
dishwasher. The larger box houses an indoor-outdoor bathroom,
laundry, and storage. Through an opening is the Airstream, shaded by
oaks. It sits under an arbor and was given a new deck. The trailer was
remodeled years ago with old longleaf pine oors and decorated with
leather, and looks like something Ralph Lauren would have worked
on, Greer says. But no one seemed to want to go there.
In summer the pavilion collects the prevailing southeast breezes,
and the tilted roof mimics the lands natural topography. We strove
for a light, delicate structure whose job is just to shade people from
the sun, Greer says. Its Tinker Toylike steel frame arrived on a truck
and was bolted together in a day, then topped with Douglas r planks
and a standing seam metal roof.
With the fully equipped Airstream nearby, the pool house has
evolved as another guesthouse, minus the walls, windows, and
doors. The living area contains a custom furniture piece that invites
lounging, naps, and nights under the stars. When the couple is here,
they use this space actively, Greer says. With so little light from any
town, there are fabulous views of the stars.
The visual context was as carefully considered as the structure.
Using an enormous oak tree to the west as a reference point, the
architects pulled the pool house back from the hills edge. Rather
than looking down the hill, you feel like youre on an island in the
landscape because all your views become distant views, Greer says.
On misty mornings the mist comes just below the top of the plateau,
so you feel like youre oating in the clouds.
Those efects are amplied by a planting design that blends in
with the big picture: a swath of drought-tolerant zoysia turf where
the grandchildren play, and a sea of native grasses that move with
the wind. The pool interior, too, is covered in sandy-colored plaster
that evokes the limestone bottom of the regions rivers and creeks.
All these gestures defer to the land, while rendering a formerly
inhospitable site relevant again. CH
Be Prepared The scene of frequent al fresco
dinners, home-cooked and catered, the pool
pavilions full kitchenincluding a wok cooker
makes food prep a breeze. The countertop is
Lueders limestone quarried in Texas.
Project Credits: Architect: Lake|Flato Architects, San Antonio; Builder:
Duecker Construction, Stone Wall, Texas; Landscape architect: Southwest
Turf and Irrigation, Comfort, Texas; Resources: Dishwasher: Asko; Bath
ttings: Phylrich, TOTO; Kitchen faucet: Jado; Kitchen Sink: Rohl; Range
and refrigerator: Viking
Raise the Roof The tilted roof opens to the
south, tracing the lands topography. Sandy-
colored pool plaster has a greenish tinge
in keeping with the regions limestone-bottom
creeks and rivers. Opposite the pool area,
a new deck and steel arbor create a magical
enclave for the old Airstream trailer. Slow-
growing vines eventually will transform the
arbor into a leafy shade structure.
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