D3 Architects

Home Improvement Professionals , Architects & Building Designers , Accessory Dwelling Units , Home Remodeling , Home Additions , Universal Design , Basement Remodeling
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Ravenna Garden House

Project Year: 2019
Project Cost: $1,000,001 - $1,500,000
Country: United States
Zip Code: 98115
Nestled into the mature landscape, this new home feels as if it always belonged. A house and its garden is a primary relationship we always consider in our design.
Ravenna Garden House
The flagstone path is an inviting entry into this modern home set into a mature landscape.
Ravenna Garden House Flagstone Path
We kept this beautiful old Japanese maple to offer shade, privacy, and beauty to the front yard. The Ground floor master bedroom opens to a deck and the yard with a beautiful old Japanese maple.
Ravenna Garden House Exterior Cedar Screen
The floor plans of the Ravenna Garden House showing our main design ideas also illustrated in the photos. A generous screened entry foyer, a large and open main communal area, a ground floor master suite, lots of southern daylight, an upstairs lounge, and decks that connect to the garden.
Ravenna Garden House
The entry to this modern home is protected and screened from the main living spaces so people have a moment to acclimate. This is a centuries old tradtional architectural design strategy found all over the world, from England, to North Africa, to East Asia.
Ravenna Garden House entry Hall
The entry to this modern home is protected and screened from the main living spaces so people have a moment to acclimate. The flow of the spaces is natural, practical, and elegant. From the entry zone, you pass by the hidden stair and then open into the main living area. This creates a contrast of...
Ravenna Garden House Entry Hall
Coming from the entry, you pass a space with the stair on the left and a built in console table on the right. This space acts as a “vestibule” transitioning from the protected entry zone to the main living space. We call this a “breath” or “pause” to allow people to acclimate to the interior spaces...
Ravenna Garden House Entry Hall
The main public space of the home is both well defined and flows together. A custom wood screen defines the kitchen and main circulation axis from the living room, but offers screened connection to the space. The entry console is a landmark in the house. It marks the transition from the entry...
Ravenna Garden House Entry Console
The main public space of the home is both well defined and flows together. A custom wood screen defines the kitchen and main circulation axis from the living room, but offers screened connection to the space.
Ravenna Garden House Great Room
The main public space of the home is both well defined and flows together. A custom wood screen defines the kitchen and main circulation axis from the living room, but offers screened connection to the space.
Ravenna Garden House Kitchen and Living Room
We think kitchens are not just for making food, they are the center of the family universe, the place to create and connect, to eat and share. The family spends so much time here, we like to make them beautiful and functional spaces. So we take time to consider the visual lines as well as the...
Ravenna Garden House Kitchen
We think kitchens are not just for making food, they are the center of the family universe, the place to create and connect, to eat and share. The family spends so much time here, we like to make them beautiful and functional spaces. So we take time to consider the visual lines as well as the...
Ravenna Garden House Kitchen Island
A generous 42” wide aisle between the island and the main bank of cabinets and countertop allows people to work at the gas range or the stainless steel undermount sink or go to the paneled refrigerator and someone can easily pass behind them. The white oak and white paint palette with steel and...
Ravenna Garden House Kitchen
Many families do not formally dine and do not need a formal dining room. We find that formal dining rooms in older homes sit empty and waste valuable communal space. In modern homes, cooking and eating are a more fluid, communal process. In this home, we aligned the dining table with the kitchen...
Ravenna Garden House Kitchen and Dining Room
The main communal space in this modern home is the large living room with a large oak paneled fire place and array of south facing windows. A floor to ceiling oak screen offers some spatial definition between the kitchen and the living room, while still creating a fluid great room feel. Tucked to...
Ravenna Garden House Living Room and Nook
Looking on axis toward the oak portal into the ground floor master suite. The portal is composed of oak paneling and a solid oak pocket door that keeps with the clean and warm palette of the main communal space while offering convenient passage to the private bedroom zone.
Ravenna Garden House Portal to the Master Bedroom
Looking through the oak pocket door portal leads right to the get ready vanity zone. The bedroom is to the left with a built in closet cabinet array and to the right is a bathroom with a walk in shower.
Ravenna Garden House Pocket Door into Master Bedroom
The ground floor master bedroom suite features these custom built in cabinets as the closet. It makes for a functional, convenient, and beautiful way to store your clothes in the room. On tight urban lots like this one where you want to maximize the garden and the communal interior spaces of the...
Ravenna Garden House Master Bedroom Built in Closet Cabinets
The beauty of the ground floor master suite is that you have visual and physical connection to the landscape. The sliding glass doors open onto a deck and out to the garden. A Japanese maple offers some visual interest and screening of the street.
Ravenna Garden House
We designed this master bathroom to have a open, simple layout with a minimal palette. The white custom floating vanity cabinet with built into the wall medicine cabinets are on one wall while a large walk in shower with a shower seat is on the other wall. Charcoal grey floor tile and white...
Ravenna Garden House
The ground floor master bathroom has a large walk in shower with a shower seat, a shower wand, sitting height shampoo niche, custom tile work, and north facing windows that bring in natural light.
Ravenna Garden House
Although the main communal spaces are all on the ground floor, closely connected to the garden, families often love having a second large lounge space, especially as the kids start to get a little older and more independent. Games and movies can be going on upstairs while the parents are reading...
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On the west side of the upstairs are two bedrooms connected by a jack and jill bathroom. The southern bedroom opens up onto a deck. The illuminated hallway in the center of the image leads to a naturally lit closet area and then on into the bathroom.
Ravenna Garden House
A view into the naturally lit closet. Natural light in a closet is the best lighting to pick out and try on what you are going to wear for the day. The bedroom also opens onto a private cedar deck.
Ravenna Garden House
All of the bathrooms in the garden house have a simple layout and clean palette for easy use and simple visuals. Custom floating white vanity cabinets on one wall and a small room with the shower and toilet on the other side.
Ravenna Garden House
Custom white painted floating vanity cabinet stretches from both walls. Clerestory windows above the light fixtures bring in natural light from above.
Ravenna Garden House
The closet of the final bedroom looking through the jack and jill bathroom to the other bedroom's closet. Hardwood floors on either side, and tile floor in the bath. Large windows bring in natural light to the closets, bedrooms, and bathroom.
Ravenna Garden House
Upstairs is a second nicely sized bedroom suite, with a walk in closet. The closet features a skylight, built in custom cabinetry, white oak hardwood and flooring. We like putting skylights in walk in closets whenever possible because even natural lighting from above is great fashion lighting.
Ravenna Garden House