0857 L House in the kitchen

Our last blog post for the L House showed a view down the circulation path that goes along the living spaces and ends at the kitchen. Today we are in the kitchen looking back into the living spaces, and we can see how the corner of the kitchen overlaps and is one with the circulation zone. A little overlapping of spaces happens because the kitchen extends out to the column line. This results in a kitchen that is in a discrete room, but still participates in the open plan living of the home. Continue reading "0857 L House in the kitchen"

0857 L House ground floor circulation axis

This view betrays a bit of the pragmatic planning of the L House design. This is the circulation path along the ground floor, which is adjacent to the entry foyer and the stair that we looked at in the last image post. You can see that this path runs all the way into the kitchen in the distance, and if we turned around it would lead to the home office, and the door to the family room. Rational and inspired! Continue reading "0857 L House ground floor circulation axis"

0857 L House entry foyer

Here is a look at the front entry hall of the L House. It not unusual for a traditional house to have the stair right there in the front entry hall. This was traditionally a matter of efficiency and practicality. The stair has to go somewhere, so it makes sense for it to share space with an entry hall, a room that otherwise does not get used that much. But its more recently become a way to show off, the bigger and more elaborate the stair the better. But when we make a modern house here we like to leave most of that baggage behind. The stair and the entry foyer do live well together and complement each other. At the same time I don't relish walking through my foyer on the way to my kitchen in the morning. But is possible for the two spaces to be together and benefit from each others space and light, without the awkward parts, like the L House does here! Continue reading "0857 L House entry foyer"

0857 L House hiding in plain site

Yeah, sure the L House looks every bit the modern house out front, but your neighbors will never suspect the urban loft hiding there behind the suburban face. Hey - its your secret, we won't tell anyone. Continue reading "0857 L House hiding in plain site"

0857 L House upstairs looking downstairs

From the L House upstairs hall a complete overlook to the living and dining rooms, and the backyard beyond. The suburban loft for when you can't quite get your head in the suburbs. Continue reading "0857 L House upstairs looking downstairs"

0857 L House family room your home within your home

You remember that dramatic 2 story loft living room from the L House. Well right beside it is this great family room where you can sit and chill, wave to the folks in the yard and just do your own thing without all the 2 story drama, and no pressure to live up to your impressive taste in homes! Continue reading "0857 L House family room your home within your home"

0857 L House

Wait a minute - we just had to step back outside after seeing the loft living room of the L House, because we could not believe that we were still in the suburbs. But sure enough, there's a McMansion right next door. I'll be darned, this is a cool house. Ok, back inside, don't forget to wipe your feet... Continue reading "0857 L House"

0857 L House is the urban loft for your suburban life

There may be any number of reasons you ended up with your life in the suburbs. Family, money, job, things out of your control. But all through it you've always loved the idea of a cool loft, high ceilings, timber beams, wood floors. But it never seemed like something that could co-exist with your world of mcmansions and curl-de-sacs, convenience stores and strip malls. But low and behold, it can exist with the L House, and happily right by your neighbors colonial, and your other neighbors Mediterranean. So go ahead, and have your cake and eat it too. Continue reading "0857 L House is the urban loft for your suburban life"

0857 L House is the Giant in our catalog

Our largest plan design, with 4 bedrooms upstairs, the L House is our biggest offering. It can nestle in a wooded site, or sprawl out with a side entry garage to feel big enough for any big lot subdivision. The nomenclature - the L comes from the shape of the floor plan which is shaped like the uppercase L. What that shape does is capture a private living area between the leg of the L and the garage at the other end. This becomes the timber framed glass walled story and a half living room - the reference point for every space in the house. A roomy kitchen off the garage and dining room, a private study at the corner of the plan, a family room you can close the doors on, all adds up to an ideal machine for a big family. Continue reading "0857 L House is the Giant in our catalog"

0857 The L House backyard

The L House can stand up to the most obnoxious McMansion neighbors, and does so with modern style. Although its our largest house design we know it pales next to some of the giant starter mansions built these days. But with its big loft like living and dining space it will be more impressive than any of those off the shelf suburban train wrecks! Continue reading "0857 The L House backyard"

0857 L House - Design Prints Available

Yes indeed, the Design Prints are done, and available from the new catalog page right now. So go, dig in, look at the plans, look at the drawings of the outside, look at the drawings of the inside, imagine your life in this house..

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0857 L House - welcome to the neighborhood

Still much to do, movers are coming with the furniture, then the photographers. Then we have to make the floor plan for the catalog page and put together the Design Prints. We're closer though. I've set this up very similar to the Tray House as they are of a kind. I used the same suburban context model as the Tray House but put a little bit more effort into the site. Note the image is the version with the garage doors on the front. Images shown previously were with the side doors.

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0857 L House - model done

Much left to do though. I've raised the bar on the context models with the 0738 Palo Alto so now I feel pressured to do a nice back yard and streetscape. We'll see, the sooner I finish the Design Prints, the sooner it goes into production. lookin a lot like its little brother the Tray House!

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0857 L House - interior painted

The inside is more or less done. What color should the outside be?

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0857 L House - window frames

Almost done modeling, have to do the stair, its tedious, and the fireplace, it goes in the middle there between dining and living, and then its time to paint.

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0857 L House - first look standing inside

The model is nearly all roughed out - stairs, kitchen, bathrooms next. The living/dining room space. click below for an additional image.. The upstairs hall, overlooks the living space, and takes light in from above. The L House is part of the Zeitgeist Plan Group.

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0857 L House - window openings

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0857 L House - model takes shape

Building, building, building...

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Guess the upcoming house plan

The next design print in progress.

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