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Thoughts & Musings
This is a house in the Skyline neighborhood of Anacortes that has a simple gabled roof with no articulation. The owners want to give it some character and I am trying out various options in my 3D model of the house.
Another view from the side of the single gabled dormer.
Here is the Cupola Idea.
Here it is from the front- which one would you vote is best?
Oh my, what a journey this project has been! 1st of all, getting materials to an island is hard….then material prices went crazy with supply chain delays. Plywood went from $25/sheet to $125/sheet in a year. Much appreciation to my clients for sticking through it thick and thin, and figuring out a way to keep the project going. Kathleen is a designer in her own right, and has a fantastic eye for detail and color! The blackened columns on the front entry were executed by local wood working legend Joe Romano. Construction by Ivan Plaza.
The front of the house used to have an old rotted exterior stair, and the client wanted to have an enclosed interior stair that united with floors of the existing house;
Partially a 2 story space, partially a cantilevered space, the addition adds an elegant way to access the main living space which is on the 2nd floor.
The new steel railings and wood treads blend in with the Zen Esthetic throughout.
Th new Powder Room features a wall of mirror with a floating LED circle light suspended delicately in front to light the whole room.
The Master Bathroom sink features a cool sliding up Robern Medicine Cabinet, that has a hidden LED strip below to light the counter- a built in night light for the whole bathroom. LED lights also frame and highlight an antique stained glass window that the clients have saved from another house.
The Master Bedroom features a cool window Bench that will eventually look out onto a nicely landscaped garden- still in progress.
A cedar wood paneled feature stripe runs across the ceiling of the Master Bedroom from the Window bench across to the opposite wall, to create an accent feature that focuses the room down the walls on both sides.
Master Bath has a lot os hidden storage.
Kathleen loves the Japanese soaking tub and says that the jets are more powerful then her hot tub outside! It is only 48” long!!!
From the water, it will be still hard to see, because there are huge trees surrounding the house.
From a drone or airplane, it would like like this shot.
From the street, it will look like this. A wall of glass is creating the new entryway with a cascading staircase that drops you down to the main living level of the house.
Here is a shot from the side of the house. I am working with a Brazilian Architect, who is the brother of the owner, so it has been a collaboration of ideas and Pacific Northwest twists.
A New staircase is going to be added to connect the 2 levels with a new entry.
The existing building is on the left in this model shot.
The existing building is just a rectangle, so adding this pop out will also give it some character.
