Make Room For Art

2021-2025

The longtime owners of a demure, 1930s, pointy-gabled, yellow brick, fairytale bungalow sought creative space-making to support their art/life balance. The first part of the project consisted tucking a small, wood clad building with two art studios in the backyard. The glass walls face north. We toyed with a gabled building, but in the end the shed roof seemed right. We took inspiration from Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz’s final building, a strong-shaped cemetery flower kiosk, which was completed in 1969. There was a garden component along with the building project that helped to link the studios to the house and to organize the rather large property. In the second phase we made careful edits to the existing house. Besides a lot of invisible but very important remedial work to stabilize the structure, we widened openings between spaces, reconstructed the kitchen in lemon yellow and re-worked the main bathroom. The owners have a courageous affinity for color, which is happily evident throughout the project.

This is a design-build project.