One enters the kitchen/vestibule area from the street through a new door cut into the existing masonry street wall. The kitchen, with nine-foot ceilings, is spatially continuous with the adjacent full-height living area which is in turn continuous with the upper-level bedroom loft above the kitchen.
Both custom details and conventional materials are used to define an interior that is aesthetically refined, but that also reflects and supports the life that unfolds within it. This is not a museum.
Details include a Danish wood stove with tinted concrete hearth and surround, inexpensive plywood floors with a random pattern of exposed patches, stock maple cabinetry with custom accents, an accessible roof with hardwood decking, and large shoji screen-like window panels that allow diffused daylight to permeate the interior.
The
coffee table is custom - the base is on wheels and consists of metal drawers
sandwiched between two pieces of high density particle board. The top
is plate glass supported by nine aluminum posts.
