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Klopf Architecture
Klopf Architecture and Outer space Landscape Architects designed a new warm, modern, open, indoor-outdoor home in Los Altos, California. Inspired by mid-century modern homes but looking for something completely new and custom, the owners, a couple with two children, bought an older ranch style home with the intention of replacing it.
Created on a grid, the house is designed to be at rest with differentiated spaces for activities; living, playing, cooking, dining and a piano space. The low-sloping gable roof over the great room brings a grand feeling to the space. The clerestory windows at the high sloping roof make the grand space light and airy.
Upon entering the house, an open atrium entry in the middle of the house provides light and nature to the great room. The Heath tile wall at the back of the atrium blocks direct view of the rear yard from the entry door for privacy.
The bedrooms, bathrooms, play room and the sitting room are under flat wing-like roofs that balance on either side of the low sloping gable roof of the main space. Large sliding glass panels and pocketing glass doors foster openness to the front and back yards. In the front there is a fenced-in play space connected to the play room, creating an indoor-outdoor play space that could change in use over the years. The play room can also be closed off from the great room with a large pocketing door. In the rear, everything opens up to a deck overlooking a pool where the family can come together outdoors.
Wood siding travels from exterior to interior, accentuating the indoor-outdoor nature of the house. Where the exterior siding doesn’t come inside, a palette of white oak floors, white walls, walnut cabinetry, and dark window frames ties all the spaces together to create a uniform feeling and flow throughout the house. The custom cabinetry matches the minimal joinery of the rest of the house, a trim-less, minimal appearance. Wood siding was mitered in the corners, including where siding meets the interior drywall. Wall materials were held up off the floor with a minimal reveal. This tight detailing gives a sense of cleanliness to the house.
The garage door of the house is completely flush and of the same material as the garage wall, de-emphasizing the garage door and making the street presentation of the house kinder to the neighborhood.
The house is akin to a custom, modern-day Eichler home in many ways. Inspired by mid-century modern homes with today’s materials, approaches, standards, and technologies. The goals were to create an indoor-outdoor home that was energy-efficient, light and flexible for young children to grow. This 3,000 square foot, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom new house is located in Los Altos in the heart of the Silicon Valley.
Klopf Architecture Project Team: John Klopf, AIA, and Chuang-Ming Liu
Landscape Architect: Outer space Landscape Architects
Structural Engineer: ZFA Structural Engineers
Staging: Da Lusso Design
Photography ©2018 Mariko Reed
Location: Los Altos, CA
Year completed: 2017
H3K Design
Patrick Ketchum
Inspiration for a midcentury grey exterior in Los Angeles with a flat roof.
Inspiration for a midcentury grey exterior in Los Angeles with a flat roof.
186 Lighting Design Group - Gregg Mackell
Architect: Mosaic Architects, Boulder Colorado
Photographer: Jim Bartsch Photography
Inspiration for a midcentury exterior in Denver.
Inspiration for a midcentury exterior in Denver.
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Lynn Unflat Interiors, LLC
photo credit Matthew Niemann
This is an example of a large midcentury one-storey stucco grey house exterior in Austin with a hip roof and a shingle roof.
This is an example of a large midcentury one-storey stucco grey house exterior in Austin with a hip roof and a shingle roof.
Eugenia Photography
Eugenia Uhl
This is an example of a midcentury one-storey brick exterior in New Orleans with a gable roof.
This is an example of a midcentury one-storey brick exterior in New Orleans with a gable roof.
Angelo Cosentino Properties
McGuire Real Estate In House Photographer
Photo of a midcentury one-storey beige exterior in San Francisco.
Photo of a midcentury one-storey beige exterior in San Francisco.
CARNEMARK design + build
COOL & DRY. A standing seam metal roof offers another long lasting, low-maintenance option while securing a tight building envelope. A stainless railing and slate flagstone stoop continues the cool-tone material palette. A new aluminum-frame glass door and oversized transom reveal a stunning view straight through to the back yard. Updated fixtures highlight the home’s contemporary, clean lines.
Photography by Maxwell MacKenzie.
Becker Studios
Design ideas for a small midcentury one-storey white exterior in Santa Barbara with wood siding and a gable roof.
Young & Young Architects
Photo of a mid-sized midcentury one-storey brick beige house exterior in Detroit with a shingle roof and a hip roof.
building Lab, inc.
Eichler in Marinwood - At the larger scale of the property existed a desire to soften and deepen the engagement between the house and the street frontage. As such, the landscaping palette consists of textures chosen for subtlety and granularity. Spaces are layered by way of planting, diaphanous fencing and lighting. The interior engages the front of the house by the insertion of a floor to ceiling glazing at the dining room.
Jog-in path from street to house maintains a sense of privacy and sequential unveiling of interior/private spaces. This non-atrium model is invested with the best aspects of the iconic eichler configuration without compromise to the sense of order and orientation.
photo: scott hargis
Giffin & Crane General Contractors, Inc.
Jim Bartsch
Design ideas for a midcentury one-storey house exterior in Santa Barbara with a gable roof.
Design ideas for a midcentury one-storey house exterior in Santa Barbara with a gable roof.
Integral Structure, Inc.
Front addition as part of creating a master suite, relocation of the foyer, and redesign of entrances to secondary bedrooms and bathrooms.
Photo credits: Tony McSwain
WELCH | HALL architects
Cliff Welch, AIA
This is an example of a midcentury one-storey multi-coloured house exterior in Dallas with mixed siding and a shed roof.
This is an example of a midcentury one-storey multi-coloured house exterior in Dallas with mixed siding and a shed roof.
Austin Patterson Disston Architects
Tria Giovan Photo
Midcentury two-storey multi-coloured house exterior in New York with mixed siding.
Midcentury two-storey multi-coloured house exterior in New York with mixed siding.
ShubinDonaldson
Ciro Coelho
Photo of a midcentury two-storey grey exterior in Los Angeles with mixed siding and a flat roof.
Photo of a midcentury two-storey grey exterior in Los Angeles with mixed siding and a flat roof.
Coastech Constructions
Inspiration for a midcentury two-storey exterior in Gold Coast - Tweed with mixed siding and a gable roof.
Midcentury Exterior Design Ideas
Taconic Builders Inc
Built by the founder of Dansk, Beckoning Path lies in wonderfully landscaped grounds overlooking a private pond. Taconic Builders was privileged to renovate the property for its current owner.
Architect: Barlis Wedlick Architect
Photo Credit: Peter Aarron/ Esto
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