Red- and blue-pigmented cement augments the color palette of the courtyard.
Kitchen
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A full-height fireplace anchors the primary gathering space, which connects to an open dining area.
The enclosed courtyard off the living room invites plenty of fresh air and cool breezes inside.
The firm designed the 1,800-square-foot home with an open layout spread across one level.
The drop ceiling was removed to make the kitchen feel larger, and Troy RLM kitchen lights were installed above it.
The new lower level makes space for guests and the owners' two children to have privacy.
A tiled soaking tub and double shower overlooks the fenced-in side yard.
The home retains its open-air atrium, a signature element of Eichler homes.
“The idea was not to make a total break between the existing building and the new work, but to allow a sort of deliberate overlap,” explains Brian.
“The approval process wasn’t easy. It’s just a guesthouse, but we may as well have been trying to build an apartment complex in the backyard,” says Marks. Walls of board-formed concrete are warmed by the cumaru wood ceilings and decks.
“We designed and built a custom floating desk, just in time for the work-from-home, COVID lifestyle,” says Santa Ana. “Sylvia loves working from the second floor loft office,” where she looks out onto the landscape and a large Tipu tree.
The house's south side looks onto the meadow that Jenny and Shawn first fell in love with.
The yellow door is the house's official entrance, but the family naturally gravitates to the movable glass walls.
Reilly, pictured here, deleted the original front door in order to create an expanse of uninterrupted wall in the living room. The existing slider is now the main entry point. She clad the exterior with planks marketed as a shou sugi ban product that reads as burned, knotty cedar. A new, corrugated metal roof replaced asphalt shingles.