"My husband gets up at five in the morning, so while he's getting ready, I can still be over in the bedroom sleeping," Linda says. (Deena Rauen supervised the upstairs decor.) Although they have to cross a bridge to get to the master bath, Linda and Craig don't seem to mind. Glass bridges span the void above, linking the staircase to the colorful, treetop-hugging bedrooms. Even the atrium floor is glass, so light can illuminate the basement during the day. The architects obliged, lining the atrium's walls and ceiling with a nearly unbroken band of windows.
Linda, a Midwesterner by birth, asked for plenty of light to combat Seattle's often gloomy weather. "The two of us have damaged more art than the kids have," Linda confesses.Ĭlick here to see the gallery for "The Artful Home". "There's going to be a certain rate of attrition, and you just deal with it," shrugs Craig, an IT marketing manager. By limiting the accents to a single hue, Skelton was able to satisfy the owner's desire for color without upstaging the surroundings.Īrtwork adorns every wall, making the pieces more approachable but also more vulnerable to the exploits of the family's youngsters: Alec, 17, Tommy, 13, Ingrid, 11, and Rhys, 5. A red zebra-patterned Chris Lehrecke daybed from Ralph Pucci serves both groupings, its color repeated in the dining chairs. Skelton of MJS Interiors in Los Angeles) is divided into two seating areas, each of which is anchored by a red Tai Ping carpet. "I really had to fight my impulses, because I didn't want to steal the thunder from the architecture or the art," she says. Linda kept her color cravings in check when it came time to decorate. Since Linda doesn't like having company in the kitchen when she entertains, the architects shunted the room to the side and chose a narrow galley layout, so there's nowhere for guests to linger. Glass doors open onto a pair of terraces and the lawn beyond, inviting an easy indoor-outdoor flow that's ideal for parties. Steel armatures frame the living area and support the second floor, freeing the surrounding curtain wall to embrace the sylvan setting (the landscape architect was Portland's Samuel Williamson). "This house is laid out very functionally," Linda says. Steel stairs on the opposite side of the entry lead to the atrium, which divides the house into public and private realms. To the left sits Linda's office, an ocher command center with expansive glass doors.
ARTFUL HOME WINDOWS
The home's artistic aspirations are evident from the entry, where storefront windows frame a compelling canvas by Chinese American artist Hung Liu.
ARTFUL HOME CODE
"We used different materials to code the public and private spaces and to meet Linda's desire for color and variety," says design principal Tim Carlander, who collaborated on the project with his firm's managing partner, Bill Vandeventer, and SBI Construction. Support functions such as the kitchen, laundry, stairs and bathrooms are wrapped in ruddy Cor-Ten steel, while living spaces reside inside a cedar block set atop a glass plinth. Perched on a rambling corner lot just minutes from downtown, the new home consists of two parallel boxes linked by a narrow atrium.
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