Bay-facing rear exterior of a ground-up new construction home in the Berkeley Hills, CA, as featured on America ByDesign on CBS. The full glass rear elevation of the Fold House is revealed from an elevated angle - dark steel moment frames supporting floor-to-ceiling glazing across all three levels simultaneously, the stacked living spaces visible through the transparent facade. The floating switchback stair is visible through the mid-level glazing, the rooftop deck with outdoor dining furniture and frameless glass railing at the uppermost level, and the bedroom suite with sofa and tropical plants at the lower level. The Berkeley Hills neighborhood context fully surrounds the site. Drought-tolerant planted hillside borders with ground cover and mulch on all exposed slopes. Fold House - Berkeley Hills CA - CB Architecture + Design

Secondary bathroom of a ground-up new construction home in the Berkeley Hills, CA, as featured on America ByDesign on CBS. The bold large-aggregate multicolor terrazzo vanity - featuring oversized chips of coral, cream, sage green, and black - wraps from countertop to waterfall end panel in a continuous slab. Floating walnut three-drawer cabinet with brushed metal bar pulls and an extended walnut shelf beside it. Wall-mounted matte white two-handle faucet with integrated undermount sink. Frameless glass shower enclosure with black hardware, built-in niche shelf, and polished concrete shower floor visible beyond. Wide frameless mirror with medicine cabinet above. Sculptural wood cylinder and globe pendant light with black cord. New Construction - Fold House - Berkeley Hills CA - CB Architecture + Design

Living room of a ground-up new construction home in the Berkeley Hills, CA, as featured on America ByDesign on CBS. Golden afternoon light rakes across full-height birch plywood wall panels - the continuous warm timber surface that defines the lower level's architectural character - casting long diagonal shadows that animate the room throughout the day. Three distinct seating zones are layered in a single open plan: a pair of cream linen lounge chairs with bentwood oak frames and cognac accent pillows in the foreground, a cognac leather curved sofa with layered linen and woven throw pillows at center, and a charcoal upholstered wing chair reading nook with small black side table visible beyond. White floating stair with glass panel railing visible at left. Fold House - Berkeley Hills CA - CB Architecture + Design

Bay-facing rear exterior of a ground-up new construction home in the Berkeley Hills, CA, as featured on America ByDesign on CBS. The full glass rear elevation of the Fold House is revealed from an elevated angle - dark steel moment frames supporting floor-to-ceiling glazing across all three levels simultaneously, the stacked living spaces visible through the transparent facade. The floating switchback stair is visible through the mid-level glazing, the rooftop deck with outdoor dining furniture and frameless glass railing at the uppermost level, and the bedroom suite with sofa and tropical plants at the lower level. The Berkeley Hills neighborhood context fully surrounds the site. Drought-tolerant planted hillside borders with ground cover and mulch on all exposed slopes. Fold House - Berkeley Hills CA - CB Architecture + Design

Long Beach, CA - Small backyard space with everything needed for family gatherings and entertaining, done in a simplistic modern style. Elements incorporated: Built in Ipe wood bench with backrest - custom poured in place concrete pads/pavers with TopCast #2 finish - built-in cooking station with custom poured countertop - black Mexican beach pebble - custom fabricated water feature pouring from a smooth stucco accent wall - drought tolerant planting - steel edging - decomposed granite patio space with integral hardener - Ipe wood deck - custom pergola - streamer lights and low voltage landscape lighting - Podocarpus hedge.

Rich is a custom home builder with an emphasis on structural performance and energy efficiency. He is a Certified Master Builder building for over 20 years, in the resort mountain areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Orlando, Florida area for the last decade. Rich seamlessly blends different architectural details, energy performance, and hardened structures to create high performance luxury homes. He gives personal attention to "Easy Living Design" in order to create a home that can adapt to the aging homeowner making life more convenient, enjoyable, and safe. Rich works closely with his customers to ensure every detail, need, and expectation is exceeded. He has chosen a team of tradesmen that compliment his work and share the same work ethic and thoughts of delivering a quality product, and who desires to build lasting relationships with the homeowner long after their project is complete. Rich engages the homeowner throughout the entire building project to ensure that he educates them on products and methods that are compatible with their desired goals. Understanding that the financial goals of a project are of equal importance, Rich provides a detailed job cost budget, so the homeowners are given the opportunity to help guide their project financially.

A concrete paver walkway with dark river rocks. Alongside is a drought-tolerant bed with a concrete paver bricks as a border and gravel & drought-tolerant plants along with a fountain and small Buddha statue.

Inspiration for a large contemporary white one-story stucco flat roof remodel in Tampa

Rich is a custom home builder with an emphasis on structural performance and energy efficiency. He is a Certified Master Builder building for over 20 years, in the resort mountain areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Orlando, Florida area for the last decade. Rich seamlessly blends different architectural details, energy performance, and hardened structures to create high performance luxury homes. He gives personal attention to "Easy Living Design" in order to create a home that can adapt to the aging homeowner making life more convenient, enjoyable, and safe. Rich works closely with his customers to ensure every detail, need, and expectation is exceeded. He has chosen a team of tradesmen that compliment his work and share the same work ethic and thoughts of delivering a quality product, and who desires to build lasting relationships with the homeowner long after their project is complete. Rich engages the homeowner throughout the entire building project to ensure that he educates them on products and methods that are compatible with their desired goals. Understanding that the financial goals of a project are of equal importance, Rich provides a detailed job cost budget, so the homeowners are given the opportunity to help guide their project financially.

Photography by: Anna Yanev Rich is a custom home builder with an emphasis on structural performance and energy efficiency. He is a Certified Master Builder building for over 20 years, in the resort mountain areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Orlando, Florida area for the last decade. Rich seamlessly blends different architectural details, energy performance, and hardened structures to create high performance luxury homes. He gives personal attention to "Easy Living Design" in order to create a home that can adapt to the aging homeowner making life more convenient, enjoyable, and safe. Rich works closely with his customers to ensure every detail, need, and expectation is exceeded. He has chosen a team of tradesmen that compliment his work and share the same work ethic and thoughts of delivering a quality product, and who desires to build lasting relationships with the homeowner long after their project is complete. Rich engages the homeowner throughout the entire building project to ensure that he educates them on products and methods that are compatible with their desired goals. Understanding that the financial goals of a project are of equal importance, Rich provides a detailed job cost budget, so the homeowners are given the opportunity to help guide their project financially.

We created a space to enjoy the games, adding a dry bar/beverage center area, along with a fire pit. The concrete is rock salt finish with a color hardener similar to the existing color of the pool deck. We added brick columns with heavy mortar to match the existing style of the mortar finish on the home. The ceiling is a painted 4x8 bead board ceiling to match the existing patio space with LED recess cans and fans. The 5' diameter fire pit is filled with lava rock rock then covered on top with a blue fire glass to match the existing fire glass behind the pool area. We built in exterior lights to accent the knee wall behind the fire pit and matched the stone on the knee wall and fire pit to the existing wall on the pool to tie the two spaces together.

Rich is a custom home builder with an emphasis on structural performance and energy efficiency. He is a Certified Master Builder building for over 20 years, in the resort mountain areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Orlando, Florida area for the last decade. Rich seamlessly blends different architectural details, energy performance, and hardened structures to create high performance luxury homes. He gives personal attention to "Easy Living Design" in order to create a home that can adapt to the aging homeowner making life more convenient, enjoyable, and safe. Rich works closely with his customers to ensure every detail, need, and expectation is exceeded. He has chosen a team of tradesmen that compliment his work and share the same work ethic and thoughts of delivering a quality product, and who desires to build lasting relationships with the homeowner long after their project is complete. Rich engages the homeowner throughout the entire building project to ensure that he educates them on products and methods that are compatible with their desired goals. Understanding that the financial goals of a project are of equal importance, Rich provides a detailed job cost budget, so the homeowners are given the opportunity to help guide their project financially.

Rich is a custom home builder with an emphasis on structural performance and energy efficiency. He is a Certified Master Builder building for over 20 years, in the resort mountain areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Orlando, Florida area for the last decade. Rich seamlessly blends different architectural details, energy performance, and hardened structures to create high performance luxury homes. He gives personal attention to "Easy Living Design" in order to create a home that can adapt to the aging homeowner making life more convenient, enjoyable, and safe. Rich works closely with his customers to ensure every detail, need, and expectation is exceeded. He has chosen a team of tradesmen that compliment his work and share the same work ethic and thoughts of delivering a quality product, and who desires to build lasting relationships with the homeowner long after their project is complete. Rich engages the homeowner throughout the entire building project to ensure that he educates them on products and methods that are compatible with their desired goals. Understanding that the financial goals of a project are of equal importance, Rich provides a detailed job cost budget, so the homeowners are given the opportunity to help guide their project financially.

Rich is a custom home builder with an emphasis on structural performance and energy efficiency. He is a Certified Master Builder building for over 20 years, in the resort mountain areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Orlando, Florida area for the last decade. Rich seamlessly blends different architectural details, energy performance, and hardened structures to create high performance luxury homes. He gives personal attention to "Easy Living Design" in order to create a home that can adapt to the aging homeowner making life more convenient, enjoyable, and safe. Rich works closely with his customers to ensure every detail, need, and expectation is exceeded. He has chosen a team of tradesmen that compliment his work and share the same work ethic and thoughts of delivering a quality product, and who desires to build lasting relationships with the homeowner long after their project is complete. Rich engages the homeowner throughout the entire building project to ensure that he educates them on products and methods that are compatible with their desired goals. Understanding that the financial goals of a project are of equal importance, Rich provides a detailed job cost budget, so the homeowners are given the opportunity to help guide their project financially.

Rich is a custom home builder with an emphasis on structural performance and energy efficiency. He is a Certified Master Builder building for over 20 years, in the resort mountain areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Orlando, Florida area for the last decade. Rich seamlessly blends different architectural details, energy performance, and hardened structures to create high performance luxury homes. He gives personal attention to "Easy Living Design" in order to create a home that can adapt to the aging homeowner making life more convenient, enjoyable, and safe. Rich works closely with his customers to ensure every detail, need, and expectation is exceeded. He has chosen a team of tradesmen that compliment his work and share the same work ethic and thoughts of delivering a quality product, and who desires to build lasting relationships with the homeowner long after their project is complete. Rich engages the homeowner throughout the entire building project to ensure that he educates them on products and methods that are compatible with their desired goals. Understanding that the financial goals of a project are of equal importance, Rich provides a detailed job cost budget, so the homeowners are given the opportunity to help guide their project financially.

Rich is a custom home builder with an emphasis on structural performance and energy efficiency. He is a Certified Master Builder building for over 20 years, in the resort mountain areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Orlando, Florida area for the last decade. Rich seamlessly blends different architectural details, energy performance, and hardened structures to create high performance luxury homes. He gives personal attention to "Easy Living Design" in order to create a home that can adapt to the aging homeowner making life more convenient, enjoyable, and safe. Rich works closely with his customers to ensure every detail, need, and expectation is exceeded. He has chosen a team of tradesmen that compliment his work and share the same work ethic and thoughts of delivering a quality product, and who desires to build lasting relationships with the homeowner long after their project is complete. Rich engages the homeowner throughout the entire building project to ensure that he educates them on products and methods that are compatible with their desired goals. Understanding that the financial goals of a project are of equal importance, Rich provides a detailed job cost budget, so the homeowners are given the opportunity to help guide their project financially.

Long Beach, CA - Small backyard space with everything needed for family gatherings and entertaining, done in a simplistic modern style. Elements incorporated: Built in Ipe wood bench with backrest - custom poured in place concrete pads/pavers with TopCast #2 finish - built-in cooking station with custom poured countertop - black Mexican beach pebble - custom fabricated water feature pouring from a smooth stucco accent wall - drought tolerant planting - steel edging - decomposed granite patio space with integral hardener - Ipe wood deck - custom pergola - streamer lights and low voltage landscape lighting - Podocarpus hedge.

Rich is a custom home builder with an emphasis on structural performance and energy efficiency. He is a Certified Master Builder building for over 20 years, in the resort mountain areas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Orlando, Florida area for the last decade. Rich seamlessly blends different architectural details, energy performance, and hardened structures to create high performance luxury homes. He gives personal attention to "Easy Living Design" in order to create a home that can adapt to the aging homeowner making life more convenient, enjoyable, and safe. Rich works closely with his customers to ensure every detail, need, and expectation is exceeded. He has chosen a team of tradesmen that compliment his work and share the same work ethic and thoughts of delivering a quality product, and who desires to build lasting relationships with the homeowner long after their project is complete. Rich engages the homeowner throughout the entire building project to ensure that he educates them on products and methods that are compatible with their desired goals. Understanding that the financial goals of a project are of equal importance, Rich provides a detailed job cost budget, so the homeowners are given the opportunity to help guide their project financially.

Kitchen of a ground-up new construction home in the Berkeley Hills, CA, as featured on America ByDesign on CBS. This angle reveals the open walk-in pantry tucked between the upper cabinet runs - open metal shelving with organized dry goods, glassware, and produce visible through the doorway, a practical and design-forward storage solution that keeps the main kitchen surfaces clear and uncluttered. Terrazzo waterfall island with walnut base panel, integrated undermount sink, and matte white arched gooseneck faucet in the foreground. Walnut flat-front upper cabinetry with terrazzo backsplash running the full perimeter wall and integrated panel-ready refrigerators flanking the pantry opening. Birch plywood ceiling panels throughout. Built-in wood slat wine rack with tropical indoor garden planting visible through the stair opening to the right. Fold House - Berkeley Hills CA - CB Architecture + Design