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This charming, country cabin effortlessly blends vintage design and modern functionality to create a timeless home. The stainless-steel crosshatching of Trex Signature® mesh railing gives it a modern, industrial edge that fades seamlessly into the surrounding beauty. Complete with Trex Select® decking and fascia in Saddle, this deck is giving us all the farmhouse feels.

When envisioning the Hygeia Lot 3 single family residential home in Encinitas, California, Lindsay and Rory Brown of The Brown Studio sought to weave unique architectural details throughout the minimalist design scheme. To add depth to the overall look and feel of the space, and to complement the home’s existing ‘hard’ angles, the team selected Banker Wire’s IPZ-25 woven wire mesh. Specified in a stainless steel and brass finish, the wire mesh was utilized to create the interior stairway railing, which functions as the focal point of the lower lounge room area. Adding an elegant touchpoint to the space, the wire mesh reiterates the angular look and feel while providing much-needed depth through the stainless steel and brass finish. Similarly, for the project-at-large, the design team favored a seamless indoor/outdoor design scheme, with the Banker Wire mesh application helping to achieve this; the exterior of the home features Gabion rock walls, created using an enclosing wire structure to secure the rocks into a wall formation. By adding the wire mesh interior stairway railing, the design team was able to create an indoor/outdoor connection through highlighting these unique wire touchpoints. “The Hygeia Lot 3 house is full of unique angles and architectural details—it’s two levels of playful design and carefully crafted architectural details,” says Loryn Cook, Designer, The Brown Studio. “We wanted to use materials that reflect this line of thinking, and Banker Wire’s architectural mesh provided the stability and breathability we were after.” The simple, lightweight material of the IPZ-25 wire mesh pattern—which has a 54% open area—utilizes a mixture of stainless steel to achieve balanced sturdiness; when mixed with the copper-based alloy of brass, a beautiful contrast occurs, while the team’s custom system holds the wire in place. Through utilizing different wire diameters for the warp and shute—achieving balanced stiffness in both directions—the intercrimp surface gives the material a high degree of reflective energy. As a result, the mesh pattern imitates an array of colors that changes as the viewer moves throughout the space. “For this project, we wanted a material that was permeable enough to see through, but detailed enough to catch the eye,” adds Cook. “IPZ-25 provides a myriad of different textures and colors, depending on the perspective from which it is viewed from—we love it specifically for this effect.” In regards to the fabrication process, Robert Richter, Owner of Flur Metals, notes that although it was initially a challenge, this project is proof that the outcome is well worth it. “We typically utilize more rigid mesh types for this kind of application, but because of how unique IPZ-25 is, The Brown Studio came to us asking if we could make it work,” says Richter. “We did not shy away from the challenge; this project was exciting, as we were able to utilize such a delicate, beautiful mesh, but a non-traditional way. Once one side was ‘tac’d in,’ we pulled it tight, and ‘tac’d’ the other side to the frame. Then, the border was welded to another frame that sandwiched the mesh in place,” adds Richter. “This application is proof that it can be done! It’s still one of my favorite projects we have ever worked on.”

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This charming, country cabin effortlessly blends vintage design and modern functionality to create a timeless home. The stainless-steel crosshatching of Trex Signature® mesh railing gives it a modern, industrial edge that fades seamlessly into the surrounding beauty. Complete with Trex Select® decking and fascia in Saddle, this deck is giving us all the farmhouse feels.

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This impressive great room features plenty of room to entertain guests. It contains a wall-mounted TV, a ribbon fireplace, two couches and chairs, an area rug and is conveniently connected to the kitchen, sunroom, dining room and other first floor rooms.

Surrounded by our contemporary, industrial railing with a curve, this deck is an escape from the ordinary. Outfitted with a fire feature, comfortable seating and several cozy nooks upstairs, and a pizza oven and dining area underneath the deck, this outdoor space has room for everything. Scroll through this ideabook to see more of this idyllic outdoor space featuring Trex Transcend® decking in Spiced Rum, Trex Signature® mesh railing, Trex® OutdoorLighting™, Trex® Fire & Water™, Trex® Outdoor Furniture™, and Trex® RainEscape®.

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This charming, country cabin effortlessly blends vintage design and modern functionality to create a timeless home. The stainless-steel crosshatching of Trex Signature® mesh railing gives it a modern, industrial edge that fades seamlessly into the surrounding beauty. Complete with Trex Select® decking and fascia in Saddle, this deck is giving us all the farmhouse feels.

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Surrounded by our contemporary, industrial railing with a curve, this deck is an escape from the ordinary. Outfitted with a fire feature, comfortable seating and several cozy nooks upstairs, and a pizza oven and dining area underneath the deck, this outdoor space has room for everything. Scroll through this ideabook to see more of this idyllic outdoor space featuring Trex Transcend® decking in Spiced Rum, Trex Signature® mesh railing, Trex® OutdoorLighting™, Trex® Fire & Water™, Trex® Outdoor Furniture™, and Trex® RainEscape®.

This split-level home in the Castro Valley Hills contained multiple different floor levels and was segmented by walls, creating a kitchen with wasted space and a tiny dining room that could hardly fit a table for four. Ridgecrest took down the walls in the main living space to create a great room that is perfect for family time and entertaining. This completely custom kitchen features customized inset cabinetry, a matte black steel range hood, white oak floating shelves, a one-of-a-kind white oak pantry door with a steel mesh panel, steel mesh panels on the wall cabinetry, and beautiful black marbled quartz countertops. The satin brass hardware and fixtures pop against the white and black surfaces. The kitchen window opens across a passthrough countertop for outdoor entertaining. In the living room, a floor-to-ceiling concrete colored quartz fireplace is surrounded by a custom white oak entertainment center.