Jonathan Reece
Mid-sized mountain style medium tone wood floor and brown floor sunroom photo in Portland Maine with a standard ceiling

Inspiration for a contemporary carpeted and gray floor family room remodel in Portland with gray walls

Joe Fletcher Atop a ridge in the Santa Lucia mountains of Carmel, California, an oak tree stands elevated above the fog and wrapped at its base in this ranch retreat. The weekend home’s design grew around the 100-year-old Valley Oak to form a horseshoe-shaped house that gathers ridgeline views of Oak, Madrone, and Redwood groves at its exterior and nestles around the tree at its center. The home’s orientation offers both the shade of the oak canopy in the courtyard and the sun flowing into the great room at the house’s rear façades. This modern take on a traditional ranch home offers contemporary materials and landscaping to a classic typology. From the main entry in the courtyard, one enters the home’s great room and immediately experiences the dramatic westward views across the 70 foot pool at the house’s rear. In this expansive public area, programmatic needs flow and connect - from the kitchen, whose windows face the courtyard, to the dining room, whose doors slide seamlessly into walls to create an outdoor dining pavilion. The primary circulation axes flank the internal courtyard, anchoring the house to its site and heightening the sense of scale by extending views outward at each of the corridor’s ends. Guest suites, complete with private kitchen and living room, and the garage are housed in auxiliary wings connected to the main house by covered walkways. Building materials including pre-weathered corrugated steel cladding, buff limestone walls, and large aluminum apertures, and the interior palette of cedar-clad ceilings, oil-rubbed steel, and exposed concrete floors soften the modern aesthetics into a refined but rugged ranch home.

Lincoln Barbour
Living room - mid-sized 1960s open concept living room idea in Portland with orange walls, a wall-mounted tv, a standard fireplace and a brick fireplace

Reverse Shed Eichler This project is part tear-down, part remodel. The original L-shaped plan allowed the living/ dining/ kitchen wing to be completely re-built while retaining the shell of the bedroom wing virtually intact. The rebuilt entertainment wing was enlarged 50% and covered with a low-slope reverse-shed roof sloping from eleven to thirteen feet. The shed roof floats on a continuous glass clerestory with eight foot transom. Cantilevered steel frames support wood roof beams with eaves of up to ten feet. An interior glass clerestory separates the kitchen and livingroom for sound control. A wall-to-wall skylight illuminates the north wall of the kitchen/family room. New additions at the back of the house add several “sliding” wall planes, where interior walls continue past full-height windows to the exterior, complimenting the typical Eichler indoor-outdoor ceiling and floor planes. The existing bedroom wing has been re-configured on the interior, changing three small bedrooms into two larger ones, and adding a guest suite in part of the original garage. A previous den addition provided the perfect spot for a large master ensuite bath and walk-in closet. Natural materials predominate, with fir ceilings, limestone veneer fireplace walls, anigre veneer cabinets, fir sliding windows and interior doors, bamboo floors, and concrete patios and walks. Landscape design by Bernard Trainor: www.bernardtrainor.com (see “Concrete Jungle” in April 2014 edition of Dwell magazine). Microsoft Media Center installation of the Year, 2008: www.cybermanor.com/ultimate_install.html (automated shades, radiant heating system, and lights, as well as security & sound).

Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary two-story wood exterior home remodel in New York

Madeline Tolle
Trendy master light wood floor bedroom photo in Philadelphia with brown walls

Large trendy master porcelain tile and gray floor bedroom photo in Denver with white walls and no fireplace

Inspiration for a rustic medium tone wood floor and brown floor dining room remodel in Other

Elegant light wood floor and brown floor great room photo in Houston with beige walls and a standard fireplace

Mid-sized beach style open concept and formal light wood floor and beige floor living room photo in Boston with gray walls and a wall-mounted tv

pc: Jim Westphalen Photography
Beach style living room photo in Burlington with a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

Photography: Nathan Schroder
Example of a trendy patio design in Dallas with no cover

Inspiration for a mediterranean concrete floor and gray floor great room remodel in Santa Barbara with white walls

Example of a country green tile and stone slab brown floor double shower design in San Diego

Interior Design by Beth Cannon, drapery fabrication Julie Thome Draperies Inc.
Dining room - large contemporary dark wood floor and gray floor dining room idea in New York with gray walls and no fireplace

Large trendy open concept medium tone wood floor and beige floor family room photo in Minneapolis with white walls, a ribbon fireplace, a plaster fireplace and no tv

A collection of furniture classics for the open space Ranch House: Mid century modern style Italian leather sofa, Saarinen womb chair with ottoman, Noguchi coffee table, Eileen Gray side table and Arc floor lamp. Polished concrete floors with Asian inspired area rugs and Asian antiques in the background. Sky lights have been added to let more light in.

Inspiration for a rustic light wood floor family room remodel in Other with white walls, a standard fireplace, a metal fireplace and a media wall