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This new kitchen will be open to the Dining Room.
This shot pans to the left more, so that you can see the relationship of the living room to kitchen.
This is the view if you were a bird hovering over the deck looking into the house. The Dining Room is in a Greenhouse of fetch deck, facing South, so in the winter months it will be a nice place to hang out.
Here is a view looking into the house with the roof and 2nd floor removed, so that you can se inside and the relationships of the rooms.
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.
I did not design this house- a couple came to me to help them with the windows, and I wound up helping with refining the layout of all the rooms, doing the electrical plans, door & window schedules. The husband is an engineer and had already submitted the drawings for permit. We also wound up moving the building on the site, as a huge tree was where they wanted the entry. I cautioned them about building too close to a large tree- they consulted an arborist, and moved the building away. My 3D program took his 2 D drawings into 3D with not much work, and they could see the siding and roof color and trim - all as they wanted it. Lastly, I did interior elevations of the main spaces, to help them envision the cabinetry. They wanted to see how the Timber Trusses would align with the windows from the inside. The last photo shows a peak inside the house to show how the Timber Trusses work with the windows. They started out with curved trusses, but getting the curved windows was a custom order and much more expensive. I helped them refine their design for the better, and define the look of the entire house by the window design and adding the chunky double columns to the entry.
This is a working model still in progress- the site has a pretty good slope to it, and I like to leave the grade showing as how it intersects the building.
This is showing the Entry feature, that is actually the back of the house. This is the way visitors will first see the house. They wanted a high ceiling entry flanked with stone walls.
One of the most important features that they wanted was a large covered deck with a BBQ, Fireplace and TV to hang out on that faces the Western Water view. A place to enjoy the sunsets.
Off the Airstripe on Orcas Island, WA
The owner’s Fiat will fit perfectly in the entry carport!
A large covered porch
A large covered porch off the rear of the “Wing Shaped” house will be the preferred hang out spot to watch the incoming and out-going planes.
