Texas-based Lake Flato architects, known for integrating their designs into the landscape, planned the house as a series of connected structures sprawled across a single story. That way, the house maintains a low profile on the hilltop, but the family still has a lot of space, and each room takes advantage of the expansive view of the wooded hills. The building materials—corrugated steel, local Carmel limestone, Douglas Fir paneling—are intended to echo the property's agrarian roots.
Read the whole story and see more photos, along with details of the home's construction and décor, at The New York Times.
Photos: Sara Remington for The New York Times.
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Comments (9)
*whimper*
Beautiful. love the arbor room and think it would be awesome with vines.
anyone have an idea of how much a house like this would cost? 1 million? 5 million? more?
just curious as i have some planning to do.
I can't relate
Really like this. The fireplace alone does it for me. Wondering about window coverings, though - no running around nekkid in this place, I'm guessing.
AH-MAZING!.
Mad, your frustration is totally understandable, but part of reading a community about design means that, just occasionally, you're going to run into High Design that is fantastically expensive.
It's kind of like a clothing blog looking at the craziest of fashion shows. Yes, we're never, ever going to be able to pay $50,000 for a dress. But the experimentation and innovation in High Fashion often spreads through and inspires the rest of the industry, right down to Etsy artists repurposing old sweaters.
This is pretty much the polar opposite of my tastes, but I can see how another apartment dweller could get inspiration out of the neat kiddie shelves, the simple grouping of sculpture on the wood shelf that's both highly polished and still has a few flaws in the wood left in, the oddly featureless kitchen...
Man alive, I actually really don't like the style, but I can understand why some people would like to see it.
Well, I have mixed feelings about featuring multi-million-dollar abodes that have little or nothing to do with apartments. But I think that there are lessons to be learned about design, layout and color from these exquisitely appointed places. And there is something to be said for a place (like this) that is high end without clobbering you over the head with its high end-ness.
I agree with madsarah -- you're increasingly likely to find a NY Times Home and Garden or Real Estate article reposted here, with little added content.
My sister just bought a tiny house in Santa Cruz, and I told her about AT because I thought she'd get good DIY and "small space" ideas. Instead, she'll find a trillion-dollar compound in Carmel.
Miser--here is your answer http://www.santaluciapreserve.com/index.cfm/featured_homes.htm