1,629 Home Design Photos
Robert Miller FAIA Architects
Images by Nic LeHoux
Designed as a home and studio for a photographer and his young family, Lightbox is located on a peninsula that extends south from British Columbia across the border to Point Roberts. The densely forested site lies beside a 180-acre park that overlooks the Strait of Georgia, the San Juan Islands and the Puget Sound.
Having experienced the world from under a black focusing cloth and large format camera lens, the photographer has a special fondness for simplicity and an appreciation of unique, genuine and well-crafted details.
The home was made decidedly modest, in size and means, with a building skin utilizing simple materials in a straightforward yet innovative configuration. The result is a structure crafted from affordable and common materials such as exposed wood two-bys that form the structural frame and directly support a prefabricated aluminum window system of standard glazing units uniformly sized to reduce the complexity and overall cost.
Accessed from the west on a sloped boardwalk that bisects its two contrasting forms, the house sits lightly on the land above the forest floor.
A south facing two-story glassy cage for living captures the sun and view as it celebrates the interplay of light and shadow in the forest. To the north, stairs are contained in a thin wooden box stained black with a traditional Finnish pine tar coating. Narrow apertures in the otherwise solid dark wooden wall sharply focus the vibrant cropped views of the old growth fir trees at the edge of the deep forest.
Lightbox is an uncomplicated yet powerful gesture that enables one to view the subtlety and beauty of the site while providing comfort and pleasure in the constantly changing light of the forest.
Harrison Architects
We converted the original 1920's 240 SF garage into a Poetry/Writing Studio by removing the flat roof, and adding a cathedral-ceiling gable roof, with a loft sleeping space reached by library ladder. The kitchenette is minimal--sink, under-counter refrigerator and hot plate. Behind the frosted glass folding door on the left, the toilet, on the right, a shower.
Mjolnir Construction
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This customer opted for 6'h pressure treated wood, with alternating 1"x4" and 1"x6" horizontal boards for a more modern, custom look.
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こだわりのお風呂
腰高まではハーフユニットバスで、壁はヒノキ板張りです。お風呂の外側にサービスバルコニーがあり、そこに施主様が植木を置いて、よしずを壁にかけて露天風呂風に演出されています。
浴室と洗面脱衣室の間の壁も窓ガラスにして、洗面室も明るく広がりを感じます。
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This craftsman kitchen borrows natural elements from architect and design icon, Frank Lloyd Wright. A slate backsplash, soapstone counters, and wood cabinetry is a perfect throwback to midcentury design.
What ties this kitchen to present day design are elements such as stainless steel appliances and smart and hidden storage. This kitchen takes advantage of every nook and cranny to provide extra storage for pantry items and cookware.
ShazDesign & Home Staging
Original kitchen cabinets were refreshed and updated with bronze finish hardware along with black granite counter tops with flecks of gold.
Art Louis Photography
Cabinet-S-Top
In this new kitchen, we installed Medallion Maple Wood Cabinets in Cashew with full overlay door and 5-piece drawer fronts and Top Knobs Burnish hardware. Cambria Laneshaw quartz countertop and 3x6 Rittenhouse Square Urban Putty tile was installed on the backsplash. A Blanco Quartz double bowl undermount sink in Biscotti color and Moen Arbor pull down single handled faucet in brushed nickel. On the floor, Kraus 3/8” x 5” Handfscraped Hickory Engineered Wood in Auburn Hickory color.
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