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My clients sent me a few photos last week!

This photo captures the four fir columns with foyer with slate floor to the north, bedroom and bathroom wing to west, living and dining to south and kitchen to the east. While most walls are simple painted surfaces, the four columns add some warm fir wood and organize the space.

The ceiling transitions from vaulted in the kitchen to flat elsewhere, and the wall between living and hallway stops short of the ceiling to allow for privacy and natural light beyond the wall. (Most of the windows are on the south side)
Living room with woodstove supported by an exposed steel beam and sheetmetal shelf… wood storage below.

Here are a few more photos: 1) Lower floor TV room – nice the way the TV disappears into the dark wall. 2) Primary bath curbless shower 3) Burnt orange Powder room with interior window to adjacent skylight 4) Looking in from the front door 5) Dining room 6) Kitchen – Kitchen features paperstone countertops and dark cabinets…a cantilevered island seating area and the best view in the house.

The initial concept was to remodel and possibly expand the kitchen, relocate the stairs down, fix the funky half wall between living room and hall….improve the primary suite, but we ended up doing a fair bit more. The sunroom was a bit too sunny with all those skylights, and it didn’t have any insulation in the roof, so we made some big changes there. (switched to high south windows instead of the skylights)

The big updates to energy efficiency are not evident in the photos.

There was a lot of good teamwork on this project between the very involved owners, the local builder and architect and myself.

Below are some before and after plans, then a few before photos.

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Ive been sorting old photos lately. 🙂 This was one of 2 bathrooms part of a full house remodel. It was fun to design the sliding barn-door mirror that opened to reveal a window (to the back yard) Built by Canivet Construction and John McBride (Working for Canivet as a carpenter)

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I visited a ten year old project yesterday. This client commissioned me to design a translucent floor in her dark entry hall. There was already a skylight directly above.

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I just realized that I never added this recent bathroom remodel to my digital diary. I wish I had a photo of the tiled shower surround because it is really pretty, but here is the vanity.

The countertop is Paperstone (FSC certified and also acoustically and thermally more like wood than most counters, but very durable) The bright purple floor is Marmoleum. The cabinet and mirror frame are ash. The light is from Metrolighting in Berkeley. The white rectangle is a secret cabinet. 🙂 There is space under the vanity for scale, stool, & waste bin….even a basket of bath toys.

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These two are of the mudroom with pendant light from Metrolighting in Berkeley and stained glass fabricated by Feral Studios in Oakland, cabinets by Wood Art in El Sobrante..door by Acosta Woodworking, Richmond, floor tiles – Arto (Los Angelos) Studio Series. The builder is Bayside Builders (Marin). Whew. Design by me. There is space under the shelving for a rolling cart with food dehydrators…or boxes..other large objects. (Still waiting for real photoshoot. )

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The clients sent me these photos from their recent visit to the project.

Im excited about the vaulted ceiling and the transition to the flat ceiling beyond. High south facing windows to the left are still covered in plywood
This photo is looking back towards the entry (Defined by four 6×6 fir posts) and the kitchen (vaulted ceiling)
Another shot of the kitchen (high windows covered)

The view to the south is hard to beat!

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A Little Project

An old client wanted to create a small enclosed office to hide the books and papers and also give her some acoustical and visual separation from the loft -family room. It was important not to block the light from the two windows at that end of the loft. Nice craftsmanship by Steve Coleman Builder.

Before shot
the new insualted wall with glass door and two windows

The desk..almost finished
bookshelves
And we created a new space at the other end of the room for a desk overlooking the kitchen and dining below for the daughter.
Detail of the copper railing (from 2009)

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Justin Prevadoros, the builder for our Galiano Island project, sent this great photo of his crew testing the steel beam that will span the living room and support a dual purpose hearth & bench.

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We still are not ready for a full photo shoot, but we got a chance to visit this project in Inverness over the weekend. The remodel (Bay Builders general contractor) was extensive and included many upgrades to the exterior for energy efficiency, wild fire safety and general design improvement. We got to have some fun in the interior including the green Arto tile backsplash and the handmade ash island posts with diamonds cut into them. (They match the three redwood posts on the back porch)

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Weve done a few of these in fir for interior and exterior, but this is the first one in ash. It will support a sitting area at the end of a kitchen island. Ill post photos after it is installed.

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Still not quite finished, The owner is doing many things himself…slowly but surely. I didn’t want to wait to get a few pictures.

This was a typical Berkeley bungalow situation where the kitchen was separated from the yard by a laundry room and a kinda tight breakfast nook. Owner wanted to better connect to the garden and also upgrade things a bit. The upgrades included new custom wood windows & dutch door (Acosta Woodworking). (The existing windows were mostly aluminum sliders installed in the mid 1900s.)

Ash and painted cabinets were built by Xylo Interiors, Oakland. We collaborated on the design details.

Lots of good storage details make for a well organized kitchen

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It feels good to see this house sitting on a solid foundation after 100+ years.

It will have a new Accessory Dwelling Unit and improved workshop below along with new windows and siding throughout when all is finished.

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