This years Coastal Living Showhouse features expansive decks and porches including a rooftop deck with panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean, Point Loma, Mexico and Downtown San Diego, 2014 Ed Gohlich Photography, Inc.

Photos by Kaity Interiors by Ashley Cole Design Architecture by David Maxam
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Built by Old Hampshire Designs, Inc. John W. Hession, Photographer
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David W. Cohen Photography
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Salisbury, CT This 4,000 square foot vacation house in northwest Connecticut sits on a small promontory with views across a lake to hills beyond. While the site was extraordinary, the owner’s existing house had no redeeming value. It was demolished, and its foundations provided the base for this house. The new house rises from a stone base set into the hillside. A guest bedroom, recreation room and wine cellar are located in this half cellar with views toward the lake. Above the house steps back creating a terrace across the entire length of the house with a covered dining porch at one end and steps down to the lawn at the other end. This main portion of the house is sided with wood clapboard and detailed simply to recall the 19th century farmhouses in the area. Large windows and ‘french’ doors open the living room and family room to the terrace and view. A large kitchen is open to the family room and also serves a formal dining room on the entrance side of the house. On the second floor a there is a spacious master suite and three additional bedrooms. A new ‘carriage house’ garage thirty feet from the main house was built and the driveway and topography altered to create a new sense of approach and entry.

Russell Abraham
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Type-Variant is an award winning home from multi-award winning Minneapolis architect Vincent James, built by Yerigan Construction around 1996. The popular assumption is that it is a shipping container home, but it is actually wood-framed, copper clad volumes, all varying in size, proportion, and natural light. This house includes interior and exterior stairs, ramps, and bridges for travel throughout. Check out its book on Amazon: Type/Variant House: Vincent James

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Laurel Way Beverly Hills luxury modern mansion glass wall exterior & front entrance water & fire feature. Photo by William MacCollum.
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The house’s metal roof is indicative of the architectural vernacular of the area.
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Karl Neumann Photography
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Jeffrey Totaro
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After Front House and Porch A 1938 Transitional Home that needed a facelift to make it brighter & lighter. Changing the color of the house and front door with the removal of the overgrown landscape transformed the front porch and house.

Built in 1920 as a summer cottage-by-the-sea, this classic, north Laguna cottage long outlived its original owners. Now, refreshed and restored, the home echos with the soul of the early 20th century, while giving its surf-focused family the essence of 21st century modern living. Timeless textures of cedar shingles and wood windows frame the modern interior, itself accented with steel, stone, and sunlight. The best of yesterday and the sensibility of today brought together thoughtfully in a good marriage. Photo by Chad Mellon

Photography by Bernard Andre
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