Night time patio lighting with fire pit and fountain. ©Daniel Bosler Photography
Photo of a small traditional front yard landscaping in Orange County with a fire pit and decking.

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Custom front driveway gate with concrete paver and River Rock driveway. ©Daniel Bosler Photography
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Transitional white kitchen with quartz counter-tops and polished nickel fixtures. Photography: Michael Alan Kaskel
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This Florham Park, NJ space may not be huge, but it has absolutely everything the homeowners wanted, designed and built to complement their modern farmhouse-style home. The outdoor living room features a full stone floor-to-ceiling Rstone fireplace, an Equinox louvered roof, and Phantom screens, all giving this space a cozy farm-house vibe, while allowing the homeowners to use this outdoor room year-round. The gorgeous see-through Vertiseck privacy panels flank the fireplace and keeps the space from feeling boxed in. Steps from the outdoor living room lead to a pavered patio, complete with kitchen and a lounge area with a custom stone fire table. Everything is perfectly scaled for the space. Want yours? Contact Deck Remodelers, the most awarded outdoor builder in all of North America: 973.729.2125. Be sure to follow us on Instagram for the latest: https://www.instagram.com/deckremodelers/

Photo: Corynne Pless © 2013 Houzz
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No paper towels on this countertop! This custom pull-out keeps the paper towel roll concealed yet conveniently located directly beside the main sink. Dedicated storage below keeps trash bags, cleaning supplies and other everyday essentials organized and easily accessible—solving a common kitchen storage problem without adding countertop clutter.

The front entry into the converted greenhouse (now 'screenhouse') shows the cottage facade of recycled materials, hand painted 'shingle' shade cloth roof, and the raised beds brimming with safe and happy vegetables inside. Photo by Jane Gates

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Designer Sarah Robertson of Studio Dearborn helped a neighbor and friend to update a “builder grade” kitchen into a personal, family space that feels luxurious and inviting. The homeowner wanted to solve a number of storage and flow problems in the kitchen, including a wasted area dedicated to a desk, too-little pantry storage, and her wish for a kitchen bar. The all white builder kitchen lacked character, and the client wanted to inject color, texture and personality into the kitchen while keeping it classic.

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Klopf Architecture, Arterra Landscape Architects and Henry Calvert of Calvert Ventures Designed and built a new warm, modern, Eichler-inspired, open, indoor-outdoor home on a deeper-than-usual San Mateo Highlands property where an original Eichler house had burned to the ground. The owners wanted multi-generational living and larger spaces than the original home offered, but all parties agreed that the house should respect the neighborhood and blend in stylistically with the other Eichlers. At first the Klopf team considered re-using what little was left of the original home and expanding on it. But after discussions with the owner and builder, all parties agreed that the last few remaining elements of the house were not practical to re-use, so Klopf Architecture designed a new home that pushes the Eichler approach in new directions. One disadvantage of Eichler production homes is that the house designs were not optimized for each specific lot. A new custom home offered the team a chance to start over. In this case, a longer house that opens up sideways to the south fit the lot better than the original square-ish house that used to open to the rear (west). Accordingly, the Klopf team designed an L-shaped “bar” house with a large glass wall with large sliding glass doors that faces sideways instead of to the rear like a typical Eichler. This glass wall opens to a pool and landscaped yard designed by Arterra Landscape Architects. Driving by the house, one might assume at first glance it is an Eichler because of the horizontality, the overhanging flat roof eaves, the dark gray vertical siding, and orange solid panel front door, but the house is designed for the 21st Century and is not meant to be a “Likeler.” You won't see any posts and beams in this home. Instead, the ceiling decking is a western red cedar that covers over all the beams. Like Eichlers, this cedar runs continuously from inside to out, enhancing the indoor / outdoor feeling of the house, but unlike Eichlers it conceals a cavity for lighting, wiring, and insulation. Ceilings are higher, rooms are larger and more open, the master bathroom is light-filled and more generous, with a separate tub and shower and a separate toilet compartment, and there is plenty of storage. The garage even easily fits two of today's vehicles with room to spare. A massive 49-foot by 12-foot wall of glass and the continuity of materials from inside to outside enhance the inside-outside living concept, so the owners and their guests can flow freely from house to pool deck to BBQ to pool and back. During construction in the rough framing stage, Klopf thought the front of the house appeared too tall even though the house had looked right in the design renderings (probably because the house is uphill from the street). So Klopf Architecture paid the framer to change the roofline from how we had designed it to be lower along the front, allowing the home to blend in better with the neighborhood. One project goal was for people driving up the street to pass the home without immediately noticing there is an "imposter" on this lot, and making that change was essential to achieve that goal. This 2,606 square foot, 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom Eichler-inspired new house is located in San Mateo in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Klopf Architecture Project Team: John Klopf, AIA, Klara Kevane Landscape Architect: Arterra Landscape Architects Contractor: Henry Calvert of Calvert Ventures Photography ©2016 Mariko Reed Location: San Mateo, CA Year completed: 2016

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Photo by Casey Dunn
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