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Slurried brick and black-frame casement windows give this home in Houston a warm and rustic yet modern look. Lantern lights and modern house numbers maintain that elegant balance. Designed by Jamestown Estate Homes, the house features a front lawn and a path of concrete pavers and pebbles, maintaining a clean, streamlined entry.
The two main houses of dark-stained cedar are connected by a foyer. The living area structure, on the right in the photo, contains a kitchen, dining room and living room-great room in an open-floor plan. The house is open almost entirely on two sides, with porches extending the living area to the outdoors. The sleeping structure contains a main bedroom, guest bedroom, sleeping loft, laundry and bath.
Great example of modern home designed to fit older neighborhood. To meet the challenge of building a modern house in a historic district, Howe gave the house traditional street cred with a gabled roofline, a classic chimney profile and narrow, mullioned windows. Crisp lines and smooth stucco walls nod to modernism, while the Mediterranean influences reveal themselves to one side of the house and inside.
Fencing: The Douglas fir fencing works to solve the sound and privacy problems; Krueger filled the double-sided wood fence with rigid insulation to reduce sound. Additionally, he spaced the slats at the top of the fence so that they let in light and allow the homeowners to look out at the street, but are high enough off the street that passersby can’t look in, without the fence’s looking like a fortress. This same Douglas fir was used for the house siding. Built-in seating: Ipe wood and custom cushions Outdoor lighting: Outdoor lighting along the house, directional lights in the planting beds and uplights along the driveway are by Hinkley.
Pergola structure: A steel frame that projects up from the fence Pergola cover: The custom shade structure is composed of cables and four pieces of Sunbrella fabric. Each fabric piece is 28 feet (8.5 meters) long; the outer two are 3 feet (0.9 meter) wide, and the inner two are 4 feet (1.2 meters) wide. A small draw stick hooks into the fabric sails individually to open or close as much of the shade structure as is desired. Pergola dimensions: 471 square feet (43.8 square meters) Attached or detached? Attached. A steel structure extends up from the fencing that the cables feed into. Krueger also attached the steel frame to the house overhang and existing site wall to prevent it from bowing when the owners need to tighten the shade structure’s cables.
The patio floor is a porcelain material made to resemble limestone. “The advantage of this material was that we could have the beauty of limestone without the discoloration that sometimes happens with a natural stone,” Krueger says. A slight slope drains all water from the impervious surface into the surrounding planters. The homeowners wanted the majority of the outdoor space to be paved so that it would be easy to move around as they grow older. Krueger softened the edges of the patio with plantings. Threshold: You step down 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) from the interior wood floor to the paved courtyard. The sliding glass doors lead to the front bedroom; the front door is between the sliding glass doors and the entry gate. Krueger maintained the home’s existing footprint and kept most of the original door openings and entry points.
Front yard of a home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles Size: 558-square-foot (51.8-square-meter) patio Budget (includes labor): Patio: $12,000 Awning: $6,000 Planting: $10,000 Fencing: $15,000 Custom water feature: $1,300 Built-in seating: $7,000 Custom fire pit: $11,000 Green screen: $1,400 Purpose: To create a relaxing outdoor space for a retired couple that took advantage of their home’s limited outdoor space. The property is on a busy street, so it was important to reduce the noise of passing traffic as well as create privacy and security from the many people who walk by the house.
Carport instead of garage! the carport is an attractive solution, especially from an architectural standpoint. It has a minimal visual impact while still offering convenient protection from the elements and a covered means to get inside. With a little forethought, it can also address some storage needs, as seen here.
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It’s hard to tell where the fence ends and the garage begins in this project. Larger design moves are the key to making this concept so successful. The fence is a wholly appropriate device for separating public and private areas. Matching the height of the fence with the required height of the garage seamlessly integrates the two elements.
Great way to deal with garage. The siding material matches the adjacent wall.
Port Townsend
Note that this was built in Port Townsend!
Love the look of this house! Small and stylish.
I really like this exterior. Even though the garage is right there, it doesn't look like a regular garage. I like the extended roof and also the courtyard entry to the house.
All the floors are tiled in 30-inch by 6-inch Italian porcelain planks that resemble wood. The flooring is unbroken through all of the rooms and hallways, has no thresholds and is heated from underneath. It even continues up this high media wall, warming up the space. They painted the vaulted ceiling white to lighten things up and cover inconsistencies left behind by old walls, since removed. In keeping with the home’s proportions, Johnson designed windows that are 10 feet high, as opposed to their previous standard sliding door height of about 6 feet, 8 inches
Lovely look and can be done without the lower level.
Lovely courtyard/privacy entrance
Great way to update traditional style house! Love these windows!
Love this angular look for a hillside.
Classic proportions compose a pleasing front facade. A dining area on the left balances out the screened-in porch on the right, creating symmetry, with a porch in the center.
Love the way the right side looks - the windows and the roof lines. Fireplace on the end - but not with an outdoor side.
The new all-glass foyer connects the two wings. Sliding glass doors and windows provide views to the front and back courtyards as well as through to each wing.
Palacios kept the H-shaped house pretty much as it was — one arm of the H holds the bedrooms and a small informal living room; the other arm is the kitchen, dining and living room. But he essentially added another wing in the form of a new garage and guest room.
Love the modern look, wide overhangs, slanted roof, large windows.
To soften its presence in the landscape, a trellis has been mounted onto the concrete block walls as an armature for climbing plants.
Lovely living room!
All the windows, including in the master bedroom (seen here), are high-performance triple glazed. Gray says he spent about $50,000 on windows for the home. “That’s actually quite cheap,” he says. “If I went up to the next efficiency level, it would be around $85,000.”
All the door swing above the floors to make room for wood floors in the future. Good insulation keeps the indoor temperature near constant. “No matter what room you’re in, the temperature never changes,” Gray says. “And the humidity is always 45 to 50 percent.” The ABC logo on this hallway wall is from an old New Zealand beer crate. The wall is concrete inlaid with wood. On the other side are the refrigerator and freezer, which produce heat that radiates into the wall.
Gray also wanted the home to function for his family for many years to come. So he employed many universal design principles, many of which center around the use of a wheelchair in the home. A ramp leads to the front door, for example; all the hallways are 5 feet wide, and the doorways are 3 feet wide. All the outlets are more than 16 inches off the ground, and none of the showers have thresholds.
n the wet climate, concrete walls seemed like a practical choice. “Bugs can’t eat it; there’s no mold issues,” Gray says. Plus, it’s durable and easy to insulate. The walls are a sandwich construction that consists of 2 inches of concrete, then 7 inches of Styrofoam, followed by a 5-inch structural layer of concrete with rebar. The concrete panels were cast onsite and lifted into place by a crane. The exterior shows the beautiful wood-grain impressions left by the formwork from casting the concrete.
Seven-foot overhangs provide shade in the summertime. The concrete table was created from a leftover exterior panel. It’s attached to casters so the family can roll it around the patio. Other leftover concrete panels became retaining walls on the property. Loose river rocks create a moat around the house so water can drain.
Concrete with plenty of windows!
Concrete house - After Gray measured the sun’s path, the L-shaped design emerged as the most advantageous. Gray learned that the property got the most sun on that L-shaped pocket at 3 p.m., so he responded accordingly. “If I changed the angle of the house by 15 degrees, it lessened the energy performance by 25 percent,” he says.
Great general layout of living, dining, kitchen with high peaked ceiling in central living area.
Love the frosted glass, gable and single story sleek look.
LOVE the full length windows and the welcoming lighted style.
Very Cute! Plantings, lighting and wall around chimney with matching path make this ideal.
Love the exterior walls. Forms privacy and design element
Clean and open. Simple lines but with interest.
Wonderfully bold exterior
Great looking exterior.
One of the few exteriors with a prominent garage that I've liked. Angled roof and overhangs may be the reason.
Lovely exterior with great lighting
Love the dark color in the forest setting. The house is L-shaped; the main living room is on the left. The siding is tongue and groove cedar stained dark bronze.
Like this look. House facing side yard (courtyard) with entry courtyard and carport to the side.
great renovation
By providing this interior courtyard at the intersection of the two legs of the L, the architects ensured that each room gets natural light from at least two sides. This again keeps the interior light and bright and, once the courtyard landscaping matures, will allow views of nature from every room.
Another shot of Tenna's house
Tenna Florian's design in San Antonio. Loved this house! Note the screened in porch on the left side.
Like the floor plan - especially the way the master is placed. Upstairs could be storage. I even like the parking courtyard.
Nice floorplan
Inside, the home features two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a two-car detached garage and a central great room. Though the space is open and airy — with floor-to-ceiling glass walls and clerestory windows above welcoming views of nature — it feels intimate and comfortable for a family.
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