A tall wood screen at one end of the deck, fire pit, and seating give the sense of an outdoor room, overlooking the owners’ intensively planted garden. From a poorly laid out kitchen and adjunct utility rooms, we made a large kitchen and family room with nine-foot-high glass doors to a new large deck. We removed inconsistent picture railings to give wall space for the clients’ art collection and to enhance the height of the rooms.
While keeping the bones of the house intact, we combined small spaces into large rooms, closed off doorways that were in awkward places, removed unused chimneys, changed the circulation through the house for ease and good sightlines, and made new high doorways that work gracefully with the eleven foot high ceilings. We dug out the basement for a large workshop, extending a new run of stair in keeping with the existing original staircase. Our clients, one of whom is a painter, wanted to preserve the beauty of the historic home while modernizing its flow and function.įrom several small rooms, we created a bright, open artist’s studio. This beautiful 1881 Alameda Victorian cottage, wonderfully embodying the Transitional Gothic-Eastlake era, had most of its original features intact.
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