A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

The Sonoma Farmhaus project was designed for a cycling enthusiast with a globally demanding professional career, who wanted to create a place that could serve as both a retreat of solitude and a hub for gathering with friends and family. Located within the town of Graton, California, the site was chosen not only to be close to a small town and its community, but also to be within cycling distance to the picturesque, coastal Sonoma County landscape. Taking the traditional forms of farmhouse, and their notions of sustenance and community, as inspiration, the project comprises an assemblage of two forms - a Main House and a Guest House with Bike Barn - joined in the middle by a central outdoor gathering space anchored by a fireplace. The vision was to create something consciously restrained and one with the ground on which it stands. Simplicity, clear detailing, and an innate understanding of how things go together were all central themes behind the design. Solid walls of rammed earth blocks, fabricated from soils excavated from the site, bookend each of the structures. According to the owner, the use of simple, yet rich materials and textures...“provides a humanness I’ve not known or felt in any living venue I’ve stayed, Farmhaus is an icon of sustenance for me".

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

This gray and white kitchen is a home's command center—where late nights of homework mix with parental career demands and—don’t forget—meal planning, prep, serving and cleanup.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

Example of a transitional formal and open concept light wood floor living room design in Las Vegas with beige walls

A full home renovation and addition for a young creative couple - a home baker and an electronic music producer. We designed to their Japanese/American heritage and customized their home to support their lifestyle, hobbies, and careers.

Carly Dow Interior Design Photo Credit: Courtney Steffens
Example of a small transitional galley medium tone wood floor kitchen design in San Francisco