Kamei Update
Occasionally I'll notice a home we designed and built come up for sale. How did the home fair over time? What did they upgrade? Here are a few photos to see:
A New Kitchen
We recently have restored a home we built years ago. See Momka's House in our projects. For the kitchen, we went completely fresh and new. As you can imagine it needed it. Here's a photo of how it was: And here is how the kitchen is today: Crisp new fir floors, now...
A diminutive 800 sf?
Up out of the ground in the Redwood Forest, this granny unit, when completed, will live large. An accessible 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, kitchen + great room w/ vaulted ceilings, laundry, covered porch and an oversize garage. Check out the progress:
Best of Houzz 2017
California’s Energy Future has arrived!
California's Energy Future, a 70 page ebook sharing state of the art passive house buildings in California, has arrived and is available as a free ebook. Get your copy here: ...
L Bath
Here are recent photos of the new bath at the L house in Mountain View. It came out nice and sweet!
L Kitchen
Here are fresh photos of the now completed L kitchen and dining room: All photos above by Indivar Sivanathan.
CASE STUDY HOUSE 8 – THE EAMES HOUSE – a visit
While in Los Angeles recently, we visited the Eames House in Pacific Palisades. Talented, prolific, Charles and Ray Eames, are among the most important American designers of the 20th. Century. Their home, overlooking Santa Monica Bay across a meadow, designed with...
To Define A Wonderful Work of Architecture
"... a pleasing overall form; consistency in use of materials; care in details; sensible scale and proportions; an overall coherence; and, above all, habitability." From the essay "Origins, Evolutions, and Ironies" by Donald Canty to be found in the book "The Sea...
Buildings I Like – Barns!
We recently volunteered to help fabricate and assemble a beautiful timberframe barn at UC Santa Cruz, recreating the Cowell Ranch hay barn. Slated to become a center for sustainability programs, properly maintained this 'new' barn should last hundreds of years -...
SOUL
I recently read two books I can recommend: The Soul of a Tree by George Nakashima and its companion Nature Form & Spirit by his daughter Mira Nakashima. They chronicle his compelling life and work exploring the nexus between craft, design and finding the...