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Project Details
The Orr House is an addition and remodel to a 5,080 square foot 1970’s stucco clad two-story home, built on a steep down-slope lot in semi-rural Saratoga, California.
Bathed in natural light from a skylight above, a new atrium brings natural light to the entry, the living room, a lower level tatami room and home office, and dramatically illuminates the stairs to the lower level and a beautiful mahogany bridge that spans the two-story space. The kitchen/dining area and the living area all share a beautiful new stone terrace, edged with cantilevered reflecting pool that extends the vistas to the horizon while minimizing views of the driveway below.
One of the most successful aspects of this project is the sensitive combining of the new and old to create a new design that is fresh, unique, beautiful to look at and beautiful to live in.
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ok javi.mahai; I partially agree, though this is relavistic to a sense. Please provide examples in support of your argument.
I agree – clean, simple, beautiful. Minimalist works for me – but nevertheless – simply amazing.
@javi.mahal – Great. Maybe you should reevaluate your definition of the term “minimalism”. I could define the term “house” to mean some sort of floatation device and then come around making all sorts of pointed, ridiculous, semantic arguments, but I don’t think it’d do much to further the conversation.
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