California-based studio Gustave Carlson Design was employed to renovate an area Eichler home in want of updating. In-built 1971 within the Palo Alto hills, the prized single household residence was a customized fee by architect John S. Lynd, a detailed buddy of Joseph Eichler. Presently owned by a design-forward household with a big artwork assortment, the home obtained a respectful renovation that honored the historical past whereas adapting it for contemporary occasions. The replace consists of the mixing of vitality effectivity and sustainability, all whereas staying true to the unique, iconic design.
“An ‘Eichler’ captures the phrase optimism in constructed kind,” says Carlson. “These ethereal, light-filled, and human scale buildings convey the promise of the post-World Struggle ll period, in addition to Joseph Eichler’s philosophy on home life, and the power of recent design to reinforce our high quality of life.”
The outside is clad in vertical Shou Sugi Ban Accoya barn wooden, which provides it a textured, matte black end. Flanked by two flat-roofed wings, the middle a part of the home encompasses a statement-making gabled roof with white panels beneath for distinction. Triangular transom home windows fill the entryway with pure gentle.
A customized, Dutch door welcomes visitors to the house in a sage inexperienced shade.
As soon as inside, Eichler’s signature post-and-beam building turns into seen. Carlson eliminated partitions to open up the inside areas to really feel bigger and to create space for his or her artwork assortment.
The atrium is now closed in with a glass roof making the area really feel expansive and brilliant with the pure gentle filtering by way of. Cedar siding covers the partitions giving the atrium an out of doors really feel regardless of it now having a glass roof.
The general design favors wooden, cork, and pure stone for supplies, whereas blues, corals, and yellows fill the colour palette.
The kitchen cupboards are completed with Farrow & Ball’s Hague Blue No. 30, which companions nicely with the nice and cozy wooden particulars, just like the black walnut topped central island.
Each of the youngsters’s bedrooms embrace a sleeping space and workspace, with colourful wallpaper and furnishings to complete out the designs.
Within the visitor bed room, a customized ledge affords area to rotate artwork as desired.
In one of many youngsters’s bogs, pale inexperienced is used on the cupboards with black accents including a complicated look, all beneath a brand new gentle nicely.
One other show ledge may be discovered behind the mattress within the main bed room to welcome artwork. A wall of retractable glass doorways affords the bed room’s seating space direct entry to the outside.
Every member of the family has their very own storage cubby within the customized mudroom.
Undertaking staff:
-Gustave Carlson Design (Structure, inside, and customized cabinetry)
-Atelier Davis (Inside design and ornament)
-Floor cowl Landscaping
-Flegel’s Building
Pictures by David Duncan Livingston, courtesy of v2com.
