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The entryway features a Studioilse Bench 443 in walnut with a leather pad by De La Espada.

The old wooden ceiling beams in the dining room were purchased from a local Amish farmer and painted white. Warm timbers tie the home together.

For a family of four, Ueda Design Studio restores the luminous-yet-drafty midcentury home of Alden Mason with warm materials and sensible restraint.

The master bedroom was enlarged by claiming a nearby closet, creating space for a walk-in shower beneath an existing skylight.

The original sliding doors to the adjoining bedroom lacked artistry.

"Around the time we were thinking of moving back [to San Francisco], I took a trip to Marfa, Texas, and fell in love with the agelessness of Donald Judd’s work," says Amy. "I liked the idea of having a classic American reference to the space, since we are influenced as much from America as we are by Asian culture."

Floor Plan of Glen Road Residence by Risa Boyer Architecture

The one bedroom-one bath guesthouse has a kitchenette, and also utilizes the same materials as the main house: walnut cabinets, cedar walls, and the tongue and groove ceiling treatment.

In the kids’ bath, green hexagon tile from Heath Ceramics is a lovely backdrop for the walnut vanity.

In the main bath, a wall of Heath Ceramics tile joins a terrazzo floor from Ann Sacks.

The original layout was very much of the time: a perfect midcentury modern flow, with a closed-off kitchen and a fire put in the floor. “They were cool but impractical spaces,” says Schaer.

The marble in here matches the marble in the kitchen.

BEFORE: Two bathrooms both featured awkward, cramped layouts.

From street view, the remodeled home—now sporting a sleek black exterior—appears to only be one level.

"As an amateur astronomer, Roberson made sure to also include a well-equipped observatory,