Architect : Shed Architecture & Design Landscape Architect: Williamson Landscape Architecture Photography by Rafael Soldi courtesy of Shed Architecture & Design
Though the front landscape is one of two usable outdoor spaces, the concrete walls provide complete privacy for the homeowners.
Shed took cues from South African houses built around courtyards and designed two courtyard-style outdoor spaces at the front and back of the house.
A built-in concrete patio bench extends inside the house, where it is polished and functions as a plinth for the living room entertainment center.
A view through the eat-in kitchen to the back patio.
A small seating area on the back patio has two Eames Wire Chairs flanking a small table made of Douglas fir framing scraps.
The exterior wood siding and window trim is made of vertical-grain Douglas fir and western red cedar, with panels of half-inch fir plywood.
The back patio is framed in concrete benches, bordered by Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’, feather reed grass.
The light-filled home is both private and open to the outdoors.