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Contractor: Windover Development
Photographer: Steve Dunwell Photography, Olson Lewis Architects Staff
Architects’ design for this home drew upon classic shingle style influences to create a highly articulated exterior. Interiors lead to a sense of compression with intimate spaces and lofty rooms. Hierarchical elements include its monumental chimneys, the “tower” at the heart of the home, and the two story bay windows that dominate one end of its façade. Playful shingle style details such as the eyebrow window lend a whimsical tough to the traditional lines and spaces of the house.

Solid Mahogany Exterior doors with two sidelights-
Model: N-250 & N-100 Sidelight .Full glass door with sidelights
Door size: 36”
Sidelight size: From 11” sidelights threw 16” sidelights
Glass type: Obscured Builder Glass Patina Came
Rough opening- Custom door size - Built to suit
Wood Species: 100% Solid Brazilian Mahogany (no veneers)
Door Thickness: 1 3/4"
Jamb size: Custom jamb size.
Call- 219-663-2279 for inquiries
System is Pre-hung with Solid Mahogany Jambs, 2" Brick-molding, Adjustable Continuous Bronze Threshold,
Our Pre-Hung Door Systems are "NOT" Kits! Shipped truly and completely pre-hung with hinges mortised to door and pre-installed in the Jamb for the easiest installation possible. This will save you Time and Money. No extra work needed for the carpenter. Ready to install into the doorway.
Your Choice of Commercial Grade Ball-Bearing Hinge Color, Q-Lon compression Weather-stripping and Rubber Door Sweep.
Lock Prep included. Left or Right Hand Door Swing. Single or Double Bored. 2 1/8" diameter hole(s), w/ 2 3/4" backset, 5 1/2" spread.
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Contractor: Windover Development
Photographer: Steve Dunwell Photography, Olson Lewis Architects Staff
Architects’ design for this home drew upon classic shingle style influences to create a highly articulated exterior. Interiors lead to a sense of compression with intimate spaces and lofty rooms. Hierarchical elements include its monumental chimneys, the “tower” at the heart of the home, and the two story bay windows that dominate one end of its façade. Playful shingle style details such as the eyebrow window lend a whimsical tough to the traditional lines and spaces of the house.
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A doctor in Dallas hired Mapos to design his dream home in the upscale neighborhood of Bluffview that would serve as both a haven from his hectic days at the hospital and a space to support his active outdoor lifestyle. Mapos was tasked with designing a modern home that would function as a definitive counterpoint to the new, yet traditional McMansions on adjacent properties.
The client emphasized the necessity of informal living and dining areas for entertaining, spacious bedrooms, a home office, and plentiful storage space for his outdoor gear and automobiles. He also requested an outdoor pool, hot tub, and lush landscape to isolate the property and establish a sense of privacy.
The two-story interior was designed as an open volume with the second floor inserted into a larger box, creating a dramatic interplay of double-height and compressed spaces on the lower level. For the exterior, Mapos composed the house out of four flat-roofed volumes, assembled to create welcoming front and rear outdoor spaces, intimate landscaped side gardens, and visual protection from the neighbors. The forms and proportions combined contain a rich assembly of indoor and outdoor spaces that will serve the client for years to come.

Created a dramatic evocation of rain, attractive to the viewer in an ever-changing pattern of growth and compression – much like the rhythm of a rainstorm itself. Suspended from cords, drops of blown glass encase the bulbs – developing the phantasm of underwater illumination – and forged luminous ripples
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Built for the Bluff, A Sea Ranch Home is Remade from the Inside Out
The house had always been grounded, on an ocean bluff at The Sea Ranch. It sits unencumbered, adjacent to one of the most dramatic stretches of the Sonoma coast with protected commons meadow to the east, uninterrupted Pacific views to the west, and a bluff trail running alongside. What it lacked was the feeling of home, one that could hold up its own against the natural landscape.
The owners are entrepreneurs with deep involvement across tech, real estate, and development and they know how things are built. The Sea Ranch house had been in their lives for years, a second residence and a place for family to gather. Built for a different time, it felt more compromising than comfortable. Sitting in a closed off nook, the kitchen fit one cook at a time and turned its back on the rest of the house. The entry was dim and compressed, divided by a structural column that presented itself at exactly the wrong moment. The primary suite was small relative to the view outside it. A large rear bedroom sat behind a lowered ceiling with a bathroom that had never been added. The house was certainly worth the trouble of doing it right.
What followed was not one project but four, each with its own design challenge, each addressed over a period of time.
Where the House Meets the Ocean
The most complex piece of the project, in both structural and spatial terms, was the kitchen expansion. The existing room was a single-person galley squeezed in as an afterthought with no meaningful connection to the dining room, the living space, or the deck outside. To make it useful for a family that cooks and gathers, it needed to grow outward into an existing patio and flow into the rooms around it.
A big challenge was the roofline. Several planes at different pitches and angles converged directly where additional volume was needed. A new form had to join that geometry without reading as a correction. The solution found the simplest possible connection between the existing angles, a roofline that from outside the structure, appears entirely original. From the bluff trail where the addition is visible, there is no discernible seam.
Inside, the kitchen is now open to the living and dining rooms without interruption. A large sliding glass door connects the space onto the rear deck. The deck itself was expanded and oriented so that the body of the house shields it from the coastal wind which is a common consideration that determines whether outdoor space at The Sea Ranch actually gets used. The result is a room that works for large family gatherings where no one feels cutoff, and one that makes the boundary between being inside and outside easy to ignore.
Welcoming Light
A structural column stood at the convergence of eight distinct roof planes in the entry. It was load-bearing, but it was also the reason the entry had always felt like a hallway rather than a welcoming arrival.
With the structural engineer, a custom steel connector was designed to receive beams from six separate directions, redistributing the load through a single new continuous beam. The column was surgically removed. Three triangular skylights were then cut into the roof above, their shapes drawn from the
existing geometry of the planes around them. The entry is now bright and open. The skylights feel native to the structure because they follow the logic already present in the roof.
Two Suites, Two Views
At opposite ends of the house, the two bedroom suites were each reconfigured, and each found a different way to introduce more of the landscape into the room.
An addition to the primary suite extended the structure outward to create a wraparound plan with a loop from the bedroom through bath and closet that had not been possible before. The expansion opened a slot view from the tub and shower toward the ocean. The view is precise and private. The ocean view is present and deliberate.
The rear bedroom absorbed an adjacent storage room to transform it into a full second suite with a vaulted ceiling, a large bathroom with a tub, a shower, and a sauna. A private fenced garden courtyard sits just beyond the glass bringing the outdoors inside. The tub was placed so that, looking past the courtyard and through the bedroom beyond, the ocean is visible at the far end. It is a long view and it makes the room feel larger and more settled than its footprint would suggest.
Glass on Four Sides, Fire at the Center
The main living and gathering room had always been caught between two competing facts: glass on four sides meant exceptional views but at The Sea Ranch, it also meant a cold room. A 360-degree cylindrical fireplace was added at the center on a raised stone base, providing radiant heat in every direction and giving the room a focal point around which a group naturally orients itself, whether that means two people at the end of the day or the whole family after dinner.
Owners Who Picked Up the Tools
The owner was not a passive client. they came with construction knowledge, specific ideas, and the desire to be an active part of the process, a dynamic that other architects may had found difficult, which Klopf Architecture accepted as an asset. They took it upon themselves to complete some of the work during construction, including the installation of a new radiant heating system beneath the floors.
The radiant system added to the older and less-desirable forced-air setup. At The Sea Ranch, that change matters as the house sits close enough to the ocean and moving air competes with the sound of it, where radiant heat does not. Solar panels were added to the roof as part of the new system. Insulation was upgraded throughout the walls, roof, and crawl space. The house that had always had the right setting now holds warmth the way a house on the bluff should.
They were also deeply involved in the design and selections throughout, and the finished house reflects both of them in ways that are specific rather than generic. The process took longer and moved through more iterations than a more arms-length relationship might have allowed. The result is more defined and personal because of it.
The Landscape Holds Priority
Every exterior decision was shaped by The Sea Ranch Design Standards, which require that buildings defer to the landscape around them rather than compete with it. Because this house sits on the bluff and is visible from the public trail, the additions faced a close review. Existing materials were matched. Geometries were resolved. The additions had to become indistinguishable from the original building.
From the trail, the house reads exactly as it always has — low, cedar-clad, secondary to the meadow and the water. The setting holds priority. Inside, the house has been remade.
Klopf Architecture Project Team: Geoff Campen and Trenton Jewett
Contractor: Shawn Bettega Construction
Photography: ©2025 Mariko Reed
Year Completed: 2023
Location: The Sea Ranch, CA

Modern stand alone compressed natural gas or propane firepit. This custom fire pit is polished 316 stainless steel and is available in any shape and size.

Color: Naturals-Elba
Mid-sized elegant u-shaped cork floor eat-in kitchen photo in Chicago with an island
Mid-sized elegant u-shaped cork floor eat-in kitchen photo in Chicago with an island

Seems like the ‘80s weren’t all that long ago. Reminiscing about music from the period harkens me back to all kinds of good feelings. The era’s kitchen and bath design, however, causes me to repress a bit of vomit. The lack of creativity, coupled with a love of beige and cheap brass, still makes my skin crawl. Some builder must have purchased entire container ships of that tile. Enter this bath. The homeowners did their best to add color, but nothing could hide the elements so popular in the day.
In attempting to provide something outside the norm (the shower tower), yet warm and inviting, (curved half-wall behind the curved freestanding tub; compressed ceilings above smaller items), and safe (large, curbless shower with door wide enough for future wheelchair), I endeavored to create a bath that would stand time’s test. It didn’t hurt that the clients, second-timers (see Modern Walnut Kitchen and Great Room) and a delight to work with, had strong opinions. The photos will be retaken soon (we didn’t stage the shoot), but they give an idea of the space.

Solid Mahogany Exterior doors with two sidelights-
Model: AC401 & AC101 Sidelight
Door width size: 36”
sidelight size: From 11” sidelights threw 16” sidelights
Door Height: 6'8" Tall door 7'0" tall door & 8'0" Tall Door
Glass type: Decorative Art Glass
Rough opening- Custom door size - Built to suit
Wood Species: 100% Solid Brazilian Mahogany (no veneers)
Door Thickness: 1 3/4"
Jamb size: Custom jamb size.
Call- 219-663-2279 for inquiries
System is Pre-hung with Solid Mahogany Jambs, 2" Brick-molding, Adjustable Continuous Bronze Threshold,
Our Pre-Hung Door Systems are "NOT" Kits! Shipped truly and completely pre-hung with hinges mortised to door and pre-installed in the Jamb for the easiest installation possible. This will save you Time and Money. No extra work needed for the carpenter. Ready to install into the doorway.
Your Choice of Commercial Grade Ball-Bearing Hinge Color, Q-Lon compression Weather-stripping and Rubber Door Sweep.
Lock Prep included. Left or Right Hand Door Swing. Single or Double Bored. 2 1/8" diameter hole(s), w/ 2 3/4" backset, 5 1/2" spread.

Color: Earth-Bilboa-Matte
Living room library - mid-sized southwestern open concept cork floor living room library idea in Chicago with green walls, a corner fireplace and a plaster fireplace
Living room library - mid-sized southwestern open concept cork floor living room library idea in Chicago with green walls, a corner fireplace and a plaster fireplace

Solid Mahogany Exterior doors with two sidelights-
Model: N-525PP & N-75 Sidelight
Solid Wood Door
Door size: 36”
sidelight size: From 11” sidelights threw 16” sidelights
Glass type:Iron Classic sandwiched for easy clean
Rough opening- Built to suit
Wood Species: 100% Solid Brazilian Mahogany (no veneers)
Door Thickness: 1 3/4"
System is Pre-hung with Solid Mahogany Jambs, 2" Brick-molding, Adjustable Continuous Bronze Threshold,
Our Pre-Hung Door Systems are "NOT" Kits! Shipped truly and completely pre-hung with hinges mortised to door and pre-installed in the Jamb for the easiest installation possible. This will save you Time and Money. No extra work needed for the carpenter. Ready to install into the doorway.
Your Choice of Commercial Grade Ball-Bearing Hinge Color, Q-Lon compression Weather-stripping and Rubber Door Sweep.
Lock Prep included. Left or Right Hand Door Swing. Single or Double Bored. 2 1/8" diameter hole(s), w/ 2 3/4" backset, 5 1/2" spread.
Price is for Unfinished - Optional Exterior Grade UV Stain and UV Sealer Finishing Available
Call 219-663-2279 for more info & sales

Solid Mahogany Exterior doors with two sidelights-
Model: N-250 & N-100 Sidelight .Full glass door with sidelights
Door size: 36”
Sidelight size: From 11” sidelights threw 16” sidelights
Glass type: Decorative Majestic Class
Rough opening- Custom door size - Built to suit
Wood Species: 100% Solid Brazilian Mahogany (no veneers)
Door Thickness: 1 3/4"
Jamb size: Custom jamb size.
Call- 219-663-2279 for inquiries
System is Pre-hung with Solid Mahogany Jambs, 2" Brick-molding, Adjustable Continuous Bronze Threshold,
Our Pre-Hung Door Systems are "NOT" Kits! Shipped truly and completely pre-hung with hinges mortised to door and pre-installed in the Jamb for the easiest installation possible. This will save you Time and Money. No extra work needed for the carpenter. Ready to install into the doorway.
Your Choice of Commercial Grade Ball-Bearing Hinge Color, Q-Lon compression Weather-stripping and Rubber Door Sweep.
Lock Prep included. Left or Right Hand Door Swing. Single or Double Bored. 2 1/8" diameter hole(s), w/ 2 3/4" backset, 5 1/2" spread.

Our Oak Canyon Slabs are a type of quarzitic stone which has similar density and compressive strength to that of granite.

Modern home designed with more than 40 windows and doors total. The vast amount of floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding glass doors allows for much natural light and makes the outdoors feel closer. Architect Rainer Schrom chose REHAU System 4500 fixed and tilt-and turn windows, tilt-slide doors and System 2500 lift-slide doors. The European tilt-turn design allows you to open the full size of the window and provides airtight compression seals when closed. Learn more at na.rehau.com/windows

Color: Luminaries-Creme-Altea
Example of a mid-sized classic u-shaped cork floor eat-in kitchen design in Chicago with raised-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances and an island
Example of a mid-sized classic u-shaped cork floor eat-in kitchen design in Chicago with raised-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances and an island

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