On a recent trip to San Francisco I saw two more nice examples of Architectural sun rays. First has metallic gold rays and the second one has little stars at the tip of each ray. Both houses are on 25th Street.
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More Sun Rays in SF
Posted in Design Projects, tagged color, details, fun, houses, patterns, Sun Rays, victorian, whimsy on August 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Sunrays
Posted in Design Projects, Found Objects, tagged Berkeley, color, details, fun, historical styles, house, Sun Rays, sunrays, trim details, whimsy on July 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We stole this detail from the Victorians for two projects underway in Inverness, California and North Berkeley, California.
Here are a few of the inspirations, mostly from the early 1900s in Berkeley & San Francisco:
Someone else was recently inspired by the sun rays –
Remodel Alive
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, fun, living architecture, remodel on April 5, 2021| Leave a Comment »
This was a really fun project with creative owners. It was a house with a lot of character to start with, but also in need of reorganizing and re-tuning.
It started off as a duplex. The family lived upstairs and there was a dark, low ceiling rental below. We turned it into a single family home with the addition of a stairs between the floors. The lower floor became a fun space for the two boys plus storage and we moved the water heater out of the attic into the lower floor as well. (Upgrading to an Electric heat pump water heater to serve the main house plus the new ADU behind)
It is always hard to explain the subtle rearranging of the floor plan in a remodel..but one example is flipping a door and a window in the dining area to bend the traffic flow and improve the dining area tremendously.
One of my favorite things about this project and client is the instantaneous lived-in feeling, the retention of spaces like the boys workshop where they can be messy and creative, and the addition of details like the in progress mural on the new cabinets behind the stairs.
Tons more I could say…but pictures are more fun.
Contractor – McBride Construction
More Architectural Monkey Bars
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, body coscious design, children, designing for movement, exposed structure, fun, get off the couch, health, home fitness, kids, monkeybars, pandemic, vaulted ceiling on January 26, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I took a class in graduate school with Professor Galen Cranz called Body Conscious Design. That is where this idea started. The class was all about how to design better spaces, furniture and other things for the health of our bodies. Much of our built environment, down to the typical chair that often causes back problems, are not great for human health. This architectural detail helps prevent the atrophy of the upper body muscles. One of my projects in school had monkey bars in every hallway for an alternate means of travel.
Picture frame cabinet doors from recent project
Posted in Design Projects, tagged cabinets, details, fun, Rockridge, whimsy on September 28, 2020| Leave a Comment »
More On Our Castle Post
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, carving, castle, cedar, construction process, curiosities, details, fun, historical styles, McBride Construction, modern, patterns, process, small buildings, whimsy, wood, zig zag on September 10, 2019| 1 Comment »
Hexed
Posted in Design Projects, tagged cedar, details, fun, hexagon, Oakland, pattern, red cedar, Rockridge, shingles, whimsy on July 1, 2017| 1 Comment »
By J. McBride
Remarkable Kitchen Lighting
Posted in Found Objects, tagged baja, color, curiosities, fun, humor, kitchen, lighting design, mexico, whimsy on January 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I saw this unique kitchen lighting solution in Baja recently while house shopping with a friend.
Dining Room Addition
Posted in Design Projects, tagged addition, Berkeley, cedar, copper, dining room, fun, indoor-outdoor, lighting design, poet's corner, redwood on November 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Hallway Monkey Bars
Posted in Design Projects, tagged body conscious design, curiosities, fun, home fitness, metal, Oakland, Rockridge, utility, value, whimsy on September 5, 2014| 8 Comments »
One of Many Uses for the Collar Ties after you Vault the Ceiling
Posted in Design Projects, tagged collar ties, designing for children, designing for kids, details, exposed beams, fun, interiors, techtonics, wood on November 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I am a fan of having some exposed structure in a house. This photo shows one of the reasons. In addition to hanging a bouncy swing, these beams can make a great place to hang a mobile or colorful flags, wrap holiday lights, store fishing poles or a small boat, install lighting to shine up on the ceiling, and more.
In addition they add a three-dimensionality to the space and light filtering down through the beams from high windows creates interesting shadow patterns.
Kids Like Lofts
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, children, fun, interiors, kids, Lofts, whimsy on September 29, 2011| 1 Comment »
There is something really nice about climbing up a bookshelf ladder to a cozy loft and looking down on the party from above. (photo by Joma Jones)
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