This 2-story townhome with first-floor owner’s suite includes a 2-car garage. Stylish vinyl plank flooring in the foyer flows to the kitchen and the living and dining area with cathedral ceiling with wood beams. To the rear of the home is the spacious owner’s suite with elegant tray ceiling detail in the bedroom and a private bathroom with double bowl vanity and 5’ shower. The kitchen is well-appointed with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops with tile backsplash, and an island. Sliding glass doors off of the family room lead to the screened in patio. The family room is warmed by a cozy gas fireplace featuring stone surround and box beam mantel. On the 2nd floor are 2 additional bedrooms, a full bathroom, and a loft space.

This 2-story townhome with first-floor owner’s suite includes a 2-car garage. Stylish vinyl plank flooring in the foyer flows to the kitchen and the living and dining area with cathedral ceiling with wood beams. To the rear of the home is the spacious owner’s suite with elegant tray ceiling detail in the bedroom and a private bathroom with double bowl vanity and 5’ shower. The kitchen is well-appointed with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops with tile backsplash, and an island. Sliding glass doors off of the family room lead to the screened in patio. The family room is warmed by a cozy gas fireplace featuring stone surround and box beam mantel. On the 2nd floor are 2 additional bedrooms, a full bathroom, and a loft space.

This 2-story townhome with first-floor owner’s suite includes a 2-car garage. Stylish vinyl plank flooring in the foyer flows to the kitchen and the living and dining area with cathedral ceiling with wood beams. To the rear of the home is the spacious owner’s suite with elegant tray ceiling detail in the bedroom and a private bathroom with double bowl vanity and 5’ shower. The kitchen is well-appointed with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops with tile backsplash, and an island. Sliding glass doors off of the family room lead to the screened in patio. The family room is warmed by a cozy gas fireplace featuring stone surround and box beam mantel. On the 2nd floor are 2 additional bedrooms, a full bathroom, and a loft space.

This 2-story townhome with first-floor owner’s suite includes a 2-car garage. Stylish vinyl plank flooring in the foyer flows to the kitchen and the living and dining area with cathedral ceiling with wood beams. To the rear of the home is the spacious owner’s suite with elegant tray ceiling detail in the bedroom and a private bathroom with double bowl vanity and 5’ shower. The kitchen is well-appointed with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops with tile backsplash, and an island. Sliding glass doors off of the family room lead to the screened in patio. The family room is warmed by a cozy gas fireplace featuring stone surround and box beam mantel. On the 2nd floor are 2 additional bedrooms, a full bathroom, and a loft space.

This 2-story townhome with first-floor owner’s suite includes a 2-car garage. Stylish vinyl plank flooring in the foyer flows to the kitchen and the living and dining area with cathedral ceiling with wood beams. To the rear of the home is the spacious owner’s suite with elegant tray ceiling detail in the bedroom and a private bathroom with double bowl vanity and 5’ shower. The kitchen is well-appointed with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops with tile backsplash, and an island. Sliding glass doors off of the family room lead to the screened in patio. The family room is warmed by a cozy gas fireplace featuring stone surround and box beam mantel. On the 2nd floor are 2 additional bedrooms, a full bathroom, and a loft space.

This 2-story townhome with first-floor owner’s suite includes a 2-car garage. Stylish vinyl plank flooring in the foyer flows to the kitchen and the living and dining area with cathedral ceiling with wood beams. To the rear of the home is the spacious owner’s suite with elegant tray ceiling detail in the bedroom and a private bathroom with double bowl vanity and 5’ shower. The kitchen is well-appointed with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops with tile backsplash, and an island. Sliding glass doors off of the family room lead to the screened in patio. The family room is warmed by a cozy gas fireplace featuring stone surround and box beam mantel. On the 2nd floor are 2 additional bedrooms, a full bathroom, and a loft space.

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

The south courtyard was re-landcape with specimen cacti selected and curated by the owner, and a new hardscape path was laid using flagstone, which was a customary hardscape material used by Robert Evans. The arched window was originally an exterior feature under an existing stairway; the arch was replaced (having been removed during the 1960s), and a arched window added to "re-enclose" the space. Several window openings which had been covered over with stucco were uncovered, and windows fitted in the restored opening. The small loggia was added, and provides a pleasant outdoor breakfast spot directly adjacent to the kitchen. Architect: Gene Kniaz, Spiral Architects General Contractor: Linthicum Custom Builders Photo: Maureen Ryan Photography

Master bedroom features pine floors and the antique door was used as a headboard, which incorporates the owner’s love of antiques and eclectic design. Photography by Mary Ann Elston

The design applies passive and active sustainability strategies. Passive strategies include site orientation, concrete floors, efficient circulation, and a well-insulated envelope. The site also includes a 12.64 kW photovoltaic array—according to projections provided by Elemental Energy’s Solar Owner’s Manual, the array is expected to provide a 129% energy offset, saving $49,000 in electrical utility costs over its lifetime. This translates into 218 tons of carbon dioxide offset and 34 cars off the road.

The Ceiling Pendant lights are imported from France the owner’s native country and bring a real elegance to Blue Charlotte’s personality.
Beach style dining room photo in Miami

Traditional kitchen remodel in a 1916 Portland Oregon Bungalow. This kitchen had been remodeled multiple times throughout the years and was in dire need of a fresh remodel. The home owners now have a time period appropriate style kitchen with modern creature comforts every cook will love.

Roses climb the walls, as they did at the owners' grandmother' s house
Photo of a traditional landscaping in Charlotte.

My client contacted me to update the kitchen and main bathroom of her 1912 home in Calgary, located in Elbow Park - one of the oldest communities in the city. The previous owners had done an addition on the back of the house and installed a kitchen that looked more suitable for a 1980’s garage than a home built in 1912. The challenge was to update the look and incorporate modern elements, yet retain the feel and character of a home from that era. Timeless details were added like marble quartz countertops, Shaker style cabinets and a much more symmetrical layout that positioned the sink under the window, instead of the opposite wall. The 9’-0” ceilings allowed us to design the cabinets to the full ceiling height, giving the home owner much needed storage space. Even though the space has been modernized, it beautifully flows from the living spaces and no longer looks like an after thought, like the previous kitchen did. Check out that custom hood we designed! It’s so killer - I die! Photography by Lori Andrews

The new construction home needed privacy and light control in the bedrooms and bathrooms. The beautiful wooded area called for a natural-looking solution and these natural woven shades did the trick. Furthermore, the master bedroom and it’s 3 windows and door needed ease of operation. THE SOLUTION: We motorized the shades to be operated together or individually, based on the owner’s desires. THE RESULT: Natural Beauty and Ease - just what the client wanted

Ward Jewell, AIA was asked to design a comfortable one-story stone and wood pool house that was "barn-like" in keeping with the owner’s gentleman farmer concept. Thus, Mr. Jewell was inspired to create an elegant New England Stone Farm House designed to provide an exceptional environment for them to live, entertain, cook and swim in the large reflection lap pool. Mr. Jewell envisioned a dramatic vaulted great room with hand selected 200 year old reclaimed wood beams and 10 foot tall pocketing French doors that would connect the house to a pool, deck areas, loggia and lush garden spaces, thus bringing the outdoors in. A large cupola “lantern clerestory” in the main vaulted ceiling casts a natural warm light over the graceful room below. The rustic walk-in stone fireplace provides a central focal point for the inviting living room lounge. Important to the functionality of the pool house are a chef’s working farm kitchen with open cabinetry, free-standing stove and a soapstone topped central island with bar height seating. Grey washed barn doors glide open to reveal a vaulted and beamed quilting room with full bath and a vaulted and beamed library/guest room with full bath that bookend the main space. The private garden expanded and evolved over time. After purchasing two adjacent lots, the owners decided to redesign the garden and unify it by eliminating the tennis court, relocating the pool and building an inspired "barn". The concept behind the garden’s new design came from Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello with its wandering paths, orchards, and experimental vegetable garden. As a result this small organic farm, was born. Today the farm produces more than fifty varieties of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers; many of which are rare and hard to find locally. The farm also grows a wide variety of fruits including plums, pluots, nectarines, apricots, apples, figs, peaches, guavas, avocados (Haas, Fuerte and Reed), olives, pomegranates, persimmons, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and ten different types of citrus. The remaining areas consist of drought-tolerant sweeps of rosemary, lavender, rockrose, and sage all of which attract butterflies and dueling hummingbirds. Photo Credit: Laura Hull Photography. Interior Design: Jeffrey Hitchcock. Landscape Design: Laurie Lewis Design. General Contractor: Martin Perry Premier General Contractors

A young family moving from Brooklyn to their first house spied this classic 1920s colonial and decided to call it their new home. The elderly former owner hadn’t updated the home in decades, and a cramped, dated kitchen begged for a refresh. Designer Sarah Robertson of Studio Dearborn helped her client design a new kitchen layout, while Virginia Picciolo of Marsella Knoetgren designed the enlarged kitchen space by stealing a little room from the adjacent dining room. A palette of warm gray and nearly black cabinets mix with marble countertops and zellige clay tiles to make a welcoming, warm space that is in perfect harmony with the rest of the home. Photos Adam Macchia. For more information, you may visit our website at www.studiodearborn.com or email us at info@studiodearborn.com.

The owner wanted a masculine, yet contemporary bathroom in this tiny bathroom condo.
Inspiration for a small contemporary kids' brown tile and porcelain tile porcelain tile and gray floor drop-in bathtub remodel in Los Angeles with shaker cabinets, brown cabinets, a one-piece toilet, beige walls, an undermount sink and quartzite countertops

This 2-story Arts & Crafts style home first-floor owner’s suite includes a welcoming front porch and a 2-car rear entry garage. Lofty 10’ ceilings grace the first floor where hardwood flooring flows from the foyer to the great room, hearth room, and kitchen. The great room and hearth room share a see-through gas fireplace with floor-to-ceiling stone surround and built-in bookshelf in the hearth room and in the great room, stone surround to the mantel with stylish shiplap above. The open kitchen features attractive cabinetry with crown molding, Hanstone countertops with tile backsplash, and stainless steel appliances. An elegant tray ceiling adorns the spacious owner’s bedroom. The owner’s bathroom features a tray ceiling, double bowl vanity, tile shower, an expansive closet, and two linen closets. The 2nd floor boasts 2 additional bedrooms, a full bathroom, and a loft.