PERFECT PITCH Architect D. Stanley Dixon and designer Betty Burgess team up to create a winning design for Atlanta Brave Derek Lowe. Written by Heather J. Paper Photographed by Erica George Dines Produced by Clinton Smith http://atlantahomesmag.com/article/perfect-pitch/

Mediterranean style custom homes in the San Antonio are very popular and prevalent. They will always have an exterior of stucco with broad arching details and round columns. The roofing is always a barrel tile roof in the red and brown color pallet. The roofing pitch is usually low meaning that much of the roof is not visible due to its flatness. Inside the home will have high ceilings with details like arching ceilings and windows. There tends to be little interior detail like crown mold and base trim. Floors are usually tile with carpet in the bedrooms. Kitchens are usually open with granite counters and stained grade cabinets. Outside the pools are usually free form with no straight lines.

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Mediterranean style custom homes in the San Antonio are very popular and prevalent. They will always have an exterior of stucco with broad arching details and round columns. The roofing is always a barrel tile roof in the red and brown color pallet. The roofing pitch is usually low meaning that much of the roof is not visible due to its flatness. Inside the home will have high ceilings with details like arching ceilings and windows. There tends to be little interior detail like crown mold and base trim. Floors are usually tile with carpet in the bedrooms. Kitchens are usually open with granite counters and stained grade cabinets. Outside the pools are usually free form with no straight lines.

Siesta Key Low Country wet bar featuring custom built int cabinetry, wine rack, and glass display shelves. This is a very well detailed custom home on a smaller scale, measuring only 3,000 sf under a/c. Every element of the home was designed by some of Sarasota's top architects, landscape architects and interior designers. One of the highlighted features are the true cypress timber beams that span the great room. These are not faux box beams but true timbers. Another awesome design feature is the outdoor living room boasting 20' pitched ceilings and a 37' tall chimney made of true boulders stacked over the course of 1 month.

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Mediterranean style custom homes in the San Antonio are very popular and prevalent. They will always have an exterior of stucco with broad arching details and round columns. The roofing is always a barrel tile roof in the red and brown color pallet. The roofing pitch is usually low meaning that much of the roof is not visible due to its flatness. Inside the home will have high ceilings with details like arching ceilings and windows. There tends to be little interior detail like crown mold and base trim. Floors are usually tile with carpet in the bedrooms. Kitchens are usually open with granite counters and stained grade cabinets. Outside the pools are usually free form with no straight lines.

The new home office is on the right of the building. The Primary Bedroom is beyond the two sets of operable triple windows. The new dining room is beyond the triple windows with transoms above. The existing house can be seen beyond. We used a low-pitched roof over the dining room and covered patio in order to maintain light through the existing windows of the existing house.

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Klopf Architecture and Outer space Landscape Architects designed a new warm, modern, open, indoor-outdoor home in Los Altos, California. Inspired by mid-century modern homes but looking for something completely new and custom, the owners, a couple with two children, bought an older ranch style home with the intention of replacing it. Created on a grid, the house is designed to be at rest with differentiated spaces for activities; living, playing, cooking, dining and a piano space. The low-sloping gable roof over the great room brings a grand feeling to the space. The clerestory windows at the high sloping roof make the grand space light and airy. Upon entering the house, an open atrium entry in the middle of the house provides light and nature to the great room. The Heath tile wall at the back of the atrium blocks direct view of the rear yard from the entry door for privacy. The bedrooms, bathrooms, play room and the sitting room are under flat wing-like roofs that balance on either side of the low sloping gable roof of the main space. Large sliding glass panels and pocketing glass doors foster openness to the front and back yards. In the front there is a fenced-in play space connected to the play room, creating an indoor-outdoor play space that could change in use over the years. The play room can also be closed off from the great room with a large pocketing door. In the rear, everything opens up to a deck overlooking a pool where the family can come together outdoors. Wood siding travels from exterior to interior, accentuating the indoor-outdoor nature of the house. Where the exterior siding doesn’t come inside, a palette of white oak floors, white walls, walnut cabinetry, and dark window frames ties all the spaces together to create a uniform feeling and flow throughout the house. The custom cabinetry matches the minimal joinery of the rest of the house, a trim-less, minimal appearance. Wood siding was mitered in the corners, including where siding meets the interior drywall. Wall materials were held up off the floor with a minimal reveal. This tight detailing gives a sense of cleanliness to the house. The garage door of the house is completely flush and of the same material as the garage wall, de-emphasizing the garage door and making the street presentation of the house kinder to the neighborhood. The house is akin to a custom, modern-day Eichler home in many ways. Inspired by mid-century modern homes with today’s materials, approaches, standards, and technologies. The goals were to create an indoor-outdoor home that was energy-efficient, light and flexible for young children to grow. This 3,000 square foot, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom new house is located in Los Altos in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Klopf Architecture Project Team: John Klopf, AIA, and Chuang-Ming Liu 
Landscape Architect: Outer space Landscape Architects 
Structural Engineer: ZFA Structural Engineers 
Staging: Da Lusso Design 
Photography ©2018 Mariko Reed 
Location: Los Altos, CA
 Year completed: 2017

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Fireplace tile: Sonoma Stone from Sonoma Tilemakers
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This project features a true, classic sunroom in the earliest tradition of the New England concept. Utilizing large, top quality, energy efficient windows with a solid mahogany wood frame roof, we provided the client with a contemporary look and feel. Taking advantage of the lovely view to the rear of their home, the clients wanted to bring that outdoor feeling indoors. The roof was glazed with insulated glass units which utilized soft coat Low E and Argon gas for solid performance in any weather. The room is also fully conditioned so that it remains functional in any of New England’s diverse seasons. Another important facet of the project was the need to provide direct access to the new sunroom from the existing kitchen. This would allow the vista to be clearly visible while in the kitchen or in the sunroom. We used a gable-style or “pitched glass” roof so as to introduce additional height in the center of the space. This allowed for the best possible view of the exterior from the kitchen while blending with the existing house architecture. This classic New England sunroom gets it done in all the ways that matter.

The project consisted of a complete renovation of a 1940’s home in Darien and the addition of a two car Garage, Kitchen and Family Room wing. The 8,300 sqft colonial home, in plan, takes the shape of an elle, and reveals a formal facade from the street. However, moving around to the rear of the home, the scale begins to break down, resembling a farmhouse from the period, with a low- pitched, covered porch, and modestly detailed columns. The cedar clapboard siding, wood roof and Chippendale detailing on the exterior porches reflect the quality of the home. Barry A. Hyman

PERFECT PITCH Architect D. Stanley Dixon and designer Betty Burgess team up to create a winning design for Atlanta Brave Derek Lowe. Written by Heather J. Paper Photographed by Erica George Dines Produced by Clinton Smith http://atlantahomesmag.com/article/perfect-pitch/

PERFECT PITCH Architect D. Stanley Dixon and designer Betty Burgess team up to create a winning design for Atlanta Brave Derek Lowe. Written by Heather J. Paper Photographed by Erica George Dines Produced by Clinton Smith http://atlantahomesmag.com/article/perfect-pitch/