Joe Fletcher Atop a ridge in the Santa Lucia mountains of Carmel, California, an oak tree stands elevated above the fog and wrapped at its base in this ranch retreat. The weekend home’s design grew around the 100-year-old Valley Oak to form a horseshoe-shaped house that gathers ridgeline views of Oak, Madrone, and Redwood groves at its exterior and nestles around the tree at its center. The home’s orientation offers both the shade of the oak canopy in the courtyard and the sun flowing into the great room at the house’s rear façades. This modern take on a traditional ranch home offers contemporary materials and landscaping to a classic typology. From the main entry in the courtyard, one enters the home’s great room and immediately experiences the dramatic westward views across the 70 foot pool at the house’s rear. In this expansive public area, programmatic needs flow and connect - from the kitchen, whose windows face the courtyard, to the dining room, whose doors slide seamlessly into walls to create an outdoor dining pavilion. The primary circulation axes flank the internal courtyard, anchoring the house to its site and heightening the sense of scale by extending views outward at each of the corridor’s ends. Guest suites, complete with private kitchen and living room, and the garage are housed in auxiliary wings connected to the main house by covered walkways. Building materials including pre-weathered corrugated steel cladding, buff limestone walls, and large aluminum apertures, and the interior palette of cedar-clad ceilings, oil-rubbed steel, and exposed concrete floors soften the modern aesthetics into a refined but rugged ranch home.

Kris Krug
Eat-in kitchen - small country l-shaped porcelain tile and beige floor eat-in kitchen idea in Vancouver with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, soapstone countertops, green backsplash, subway tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances and an island

Arts and crafts home design photo in Philadelphia

Project Overview: This project was a new construction laneway house designed by Alex Glegg and built by Eyco Building Group in Vancouver, British Columbia. It uses our Gendai cladding that shows off beautiful wood grain with a blackened look that creates a stunning contrast against their homes trim and its lighter interior. Photos courtesy of Christopher Rollett. Product: Gendai 1×6 select grade shiplap Prefinish: Black Application: Residential – Exterior SF: 1200SF Designer: Alex Glegg Builder: Eyco Building Group Date: August 2017 Location: Vancouver, BC

A newbuild garage in the backyard adds space for storage. The exteriors match the existing home perfectly.
Example of a mid-sized classic detached one-car garage design in Toronto

Simon Devitt
Inspiration for a contemporary exterior home remodel in Auckland

Spacious garage build project, 3 vehicle bays with ample perimeter storage room. Installed built-in cabinets and table worktop, open shelving, and wall of hooks for hanging shop and garden tools are features in this new garage build. Heating system installed as well as heated concrete floor to make space functional as a workshop in all seasons. Floor was finished with polyaspartic epoxy coating. Garage is a bright space with ample lighting and large window for natural light. Exterior clad in Hardie siding and gable ends are stucco with decorative cedar bracket features. Large concrete driveway extends from garage to fence and property line. Cedar fencing, gate and arbour were installed to complete this backyard project.

Ann Lowengart Interiors collaborated with Field Architecture and Dowbuilt on this dramatic Sonoma residence featuring three copper-clad pavilions connected by glass breezeways. The copper and red cedar siding echo the red bark of the Madrone trees, blending the built world with the natural world of the ridge-top compound. Retractable walls and limestone floors that extend outside to limestone pavers merge the interiors with the landscape. To complement the modernist architecture and the client's contemporary art collection, we selected and installed modern and artisanal furnishings in organic textures and an earthy color palette.

Lake Flato Architects
Eclectic exterior home idea in Houston

This modern farmhouse located outside of Spokane, Washington, creates a prominent focal point among the landscape of rolling plains. The composition of the home is dominated by three steep gable rooflines linked together by a central spine. This unique design evokes a sense of expansion and contraction from one space to the next. Vertical cedar siding, poured concrete, and zinc gray metal elements clad the modern farmhouse, which, combined with a shop that has the aesthetic of a weathered barn, creates a sense of modernity that remains rooted to the surrounding environment. The Glo double pane A5 Series windows and doors were selected for the project because of their sleek, modern aesthetic and advanced thermal technology over traditional aluminum windows. High performance spacers, low iron glass, larger continuous thermal breaks, and multiple air seals allows the A5 Series to deliver high performance values and cost effective durability while remaining a sophisticated and stylish design choice. Strategically placed operable windows paired with large expanses of fixed picture windows provide natural ventilation and a visual connection to the outdoors.

Design ideas for a contemporary landscaping in Boston.

Example of a minimalist multicolored three-story mixed siding house exterior design in Grand Rapids with a shed roof

Grabill's custom window solutions are the perfect choice for this sprawling Wyoming retreat. With large expanse glass and monumental openings throughout, this house is all about welcoming the surroundings in. Floor to ceiling window walls, feature a variety of window and door configurations including multi-panel sliding doors, motorized awning windows, casements, and adjoining transoms.

Inspiration for a 1960s white one-story gable roof remodel in Seattle with a shingle roof and a black roof

This historic front porch stairs were built new by Westbrook Restorations in Seattle. These front porch stairs are made of pressure treated wood back framing, solid fir treads, fir risers, vertical grain cedar siding, custom made fir box tops. All stair wood transitional seams are fully glued and screwed, and sloped away from riser to prevent moisture penetration. As Master carpenters we use a mix of old and new techniques to ensure longevity of product.

Custom concrete hot tub clad in limestone walling and coping. Limestone rockery help retain the grade change from sideyard to backyard. Lots of colour in the planting plan especially from the Bloodgood Japanese Maple.

Arts and crafts exterior home photo in Chicago

Project Overview: This modern new build was designed by Robert Neylan Architects and features both interior and exterior applications of our Gendai siding with polymerized black finish. Contractor was Riviera Cedar Homes of Sawyer, MI. Product: Gendai 1×6 select grade shiplap Prefinish: Black Application: Residential – Interior & Exterior SF: 850SF Designer: Robert Neylan Architects Builder: Karl Piotter of Riviera Cedar Homes Date: February 2018 Location: Harbert, MI

This new custom house, completed in late 2012, was designed with an accessory dwelling unit to take advantage of an allowance in the single family zoning code in Seattle. The primary dwelling, 1300 square feet on the upper two stories houses a mother and teenager. The accessory dwelling, 750 square feet, provides a leasable smaller space that can be for a tenant or downsizing in the future. Seattle based RE Store began by completely deconstructing the original home so that its salvaged parts could have a new life in other design applications. The new design for the home is modern with a sustainable theme, incorporating a palette of natural materials. The Paperstone, wood and steel staircase connects the open-plan living, dining areas and kitchen to the upstairs bedrooms and open library. Exterior decks extend the main interior living spaces while sliding glass panels allow the primary bedroom to connect. Stylishly visible from all rooms in the open interior living spaces are two complementary objects, both lit from within, a frosted lexan pantry and a slatted reclaimed fir bathroom, with wood sourced from Windfall Lumber. Throughout the home, finishes are simple and minimal: polished concrete flooring, bright-white walls, and formaldehyde-free sapele and maple cabinetry. The main kitchen is outfitted with Ecotop counters and a custom sapele wood island that has large, handle-free pullout drawers on the cooking side and a built-in wine rack on the other. Maximizing storage, a custom built-in apple plywood bench and open wooden box shelves provide extra space. A model of efficiency, the home maximizes the performance of the envelope of the building. The reclaimed fir car decking wrapped around the exterior from Windfall Lumber, creates the rainscreen siding and is sourced locally from a deconstructed warehouse in Tacoma WA. In addition, access to daylight through high-performance glazing, solar preheat for domestic hot water needs, in-floor radiant heating and a green roof created by the owner adds to the efficiency. Photo Credit & Design: b9 architects URL http://www.windfalllumber.com Photographer: Ed Sozinho