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This Usonian design incorporates the best of all worlds with a guest wing, custom wine cellar, and all the personality a home could possess. With 18 sets of French doors, and 12 sets of fixed door panels acting as windows, the airiness of this design is palpable.

Incorporating a few of the clients’ 300 year old Indonesian doors was a welcome challenge – and floating one of them in a wall of glass was simple brilliance. The requested colour of the acid etched floor was achieved with a blend of tan and turquoise, resulting in a distinctive agate hue that veritably glows under the skylights.

With its many covered verandahs, exposed aggregate patios, and integration of old and new features, this home will endure as a one-of-a-kind jewel.

Project Type

Custom Home

Style

Australian Ranch House

Square Footage

5000 (including attached garage)

Exterior Features
  • oceanfront
  • several covered outdoor living areas
  • rain water leaders designed into landscape irrigation
  • two-pitch style roof
Interior Features
  • floating glass walls
  • homeowner’s collection of antique Indonesian doors integrated throughout
  • built-in wine cellar
  • acid-etched heated concrete floors (the unique colour was custom mixed to homeowner’s specifications)
  • homeowner’s antique dressers utilized as bathroom vanities
  • designed and installed oversized plate glass skylight system over north roof for increased natural light
Challenges
  • connecting the indoors to the outdoors was a primary objective. The initial idea was for ‘removable walls’ and the clients wanted to use folding door systems to achieve this; however when priced these door systems added up to 10% of the total budget; instead a creative alternative was reached where multiple fixed and active french door panels were used with a cost of less than 2% of the budget and achieving a similar look. There are 18 sets of french doors and 12 sets of fixed door panels acting as windows. There are only 4 actual windows in this house
  • We took 300 year old antique doors from Indonesia weighing 300 lbs. and seamlessly integrated them into a visually floating glass wall using a steel frame, which was left to patina in order to coordinate with the rustic finish on the old doors
  • Wine cellar – we built an exterior building enclosure around this interior room and used a ducted air conditioning unit to create a cost effective built-in wine cellar, instead of paying for pre-fab option