The client’s request was quite common - a typical 2800 sf builder home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living space, and den. However, their desire was for this to be “anything but common.” The result is an innovative update on the production home for the modern era, and serves as a direct counterpoint to the neighborhood and its more conventional suburban housing stock, which focus views to the backyard and seeks to nullify the unique qualities and challenges of topography and the natural environment. The Terraced House cautiously steps down the site’s steep topography, resulting in a more nuanced approach to site development than cutting and filling that is so common in the builder homes of the area. The compact house opens up in very focused views that capture the natural wooded setting, while masking the sounds and views of the directly adjacent roadway. The main living spaces face this major roadway, effectively flipping the typical orientation of a suburban home, and the main entrance pulls visitors up to the second floor and halfway through the site, providing a sense of procession and privacy absent in the typical suburban home. Clad in a custom rain screen that reflects the wood of the surrounding landscape - while providing a glimpse into the interior tones that are used. The stepping “wood boxes” rest on a series of concrete walls that organize the site, retain the earth, and - in conjunction with the wood veneer panels - provide a subtle organic texture to the composition. The interior spaces wrap around an interior knuckle that houses public zones and vertical circulation - allowing more private spaces to exist at the edges of the building. The windows get larger and more frequent as they ascend the building, culminating in the upstairs bedrooms that occupy the site like a tree house - giving views in all directions. The Terraced House imports urban qualities to the suburban neighborhood and seeks to elevate the typical approach to production home construction, while being more in tune with modern family living patterns. Overview: Elm Grove Size: 2,800 sf, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Completion Date: September 2014 Services: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Interior Consultants: Amy Carman Design

Glenn Layton Homes, LLC, "Building Your Coastal Lifestyle"

A barn-style door in the entry hall conceals what is now the Master Bedroom. Whereas this area was originally part of the open space, Adamik and Churney agreed to build the wall to create more personal environment. The stainless hardware of the rolling door system strikes an even balance between industrial and residential design, with its exposed mechanics and refined finish. Having the door painted the same color as the walls helps it disappear when closed. Door Hardware: barndoorhardware.com; Pendant Light: Visual Comfort

Mediterranean door on exterior of home in South Bay California Custom Design & Construction

Jeremy Bitterman Photography: Located on Washington’s Key Peninsula, this custom home was designed and built to provide a tranquil retreat from the daily bustle of urban life. The living room is captured on three sides by a Classic Series custom wood window curtain wall spanning over thirty five feet within a single opening and turning two 90 degree butt-glazed corners, all at a height of over eleven feet. Our 2 ¼” common mullion provides clean and narrow frame sightlines to maximize the panoramic view of the Puget Sound. Other Classic Series architectural windows run as clerestory around the perimeter of the structure providing ample amounts of natural light to the interior spaces. The kitchen area features a six-panel XXX-XXO Lift/Slide door system that opens from a post-free corner. Three panels one side of the door provide the option of sliding the panels to either side or even to the center creating an opening that can be fine-tuned as needed for desired ventilation or traffic flow. Other unique features include casement and awning flush sapele wood “vents” that blend into the exterior wood siding, and a large, single-panel teak pocketing door that opens a forty-five square foot clear opening from an interior shower to the exterior.

Aaron Dougherty Photography

IQ Glass UK

Rob Karosis

Traditional style meets high performance in this evolution of the classic turn-of-the-century window. Its clean, balanced design provides the performance and aesthetic your home deserves. These double hung windows combine nicely with picture windows, polygons, and more to create breathtaking windowscapes.

Renovated dining room in mid-century modern house.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR GLASS PANTRY DOOR! Pantry Doors shipping is just $99 to most states, $159 to some East coast regions, custom packed and fully insured with a 1-4 day transit time. Available any size, as pantry door glass insert only or pre-installed in a door frame, with 8 wood types available. ETA for pantry doors will vary from 3-8 weeks depending on glass & door type.........Block the view, but brighten the look with a beautiful glass pantry door by Sans Soucie! Select from dozens of frosted glass designs, borders and letter styles! Sans Soucie creates their pantry door glass designs thru sandblasting the glass in different ways which create not only different effects, but different levels in price. Choose from the highest quality and largest selection of frosted glass pantry doors available anywhere! The "same design, done different" - with no limit to design, there's something for every decor, regardless of style. Inside our fun, easy to use online Glass and Door Designer at sanssoucie.com, you'll get instant pricing on everything as YOU customize your door and the glass, just the way YOU want it, to compliment and coordinate with your decor. When you're all finished designing, you can place your order right there online! Glass and doors ship worldwide, custom packed in-house, fully insured via UPS Freight. Glass is sandblast frosted or etched and pantry door designs are available in 3 effects: Solid frost, 2D surface etched or 3D carved. Visit or site to learn more!

A mountain modern residence situated in the Gallatin Valley of Montana. Our modern aluminum door adds just the right amount of flair to this beautiful home designed by FORMation Architecture. The Circle F Residence has a beautiful mixture of natural stone, wood and metal, creating a home that blends flawlessly into it’s environment. The modern door design was selected to complete the home with a warm front entrance. This signature piece is designed with horizontal cutters and a wenge wood handle accented with stainless steel caps. The obscure glass was chosen to add natural light and provide privacy to the front entry of the home. Performance was also factor in the selection of this piece; quad pane glass and a fully insulated aluminum door slab offer high performance and protection from the extreme weather. This distinctive modern aluminum door completes the home and provides a warm, beautiful entry way.

Bathroom with swinging door by Divine Custom Homes Photo by Space Crafting

The London Door Company

The Classic-Craft® Mahogany Collection™ gives you elegant door styles with the look of rich mahogany made from environmentally friendly materials that hold up to weather and wear. The Mahogany Collection™ is made with our patented AccuGrain™ technology to give the look of high-grade wood, with all of the durability of fiberglass. The exterior doors in this collection have the look and feel of a real wood front door — with solid wood square edges, architecturally correct stiles, rails and panels. Unlike genuine wood doors, they resist splitting, cracking and rotting. Door 3/4 Lite 2 Panel Style IDs Available Sizes Available Options CCM200 3'0" x 6'8" Sidelites Left Sidelite Style ID Available Sizes Features CCM3300SL 10" x 6'8" 12" x 6'8" 14" x 6'8" Flush Glazed (?) Right Sidelite Style ID Available Sizes Features CCM3300SL 10" x 6'8" 12" x 6'8" 14" x 6'8" Flush Glazed (?) Finish Option: Stainable Paintable

Deep and rich woods are set off by brass fixtures, Brick textured porcelain tile add warmth.

a stylish portico gives this Berwyn, PA home a great new look! Alicia's Art, LLC RUDLOFF Custom Builders, is a residential construction company that connects with clients early in the design phase to ensure every detail of your project is captured just as you imagined. RUDLOFF Custom Builders will create the project of your dreams that is executed by on-site project managers and skilled craftsman, while creating lifetime client relationships that are build on trust and integrity. We are a full service, certified remodeling company that covers all of the Philadelphia suburban area including West Chester, Gladwynne, Malvern, Wayne, Haverford and more. As a 6 time Best of Houzz winner, we look forward to working with you n your next project.

February and March 2011 Mpls/St. Paul Magazine featured Byron and Janet Richard's kitchen in their Cross Lake retreat designed by JoLynn Johnson. Honorable Mention in Crystal Cabinet Works Design Contest 2011 A vacation home built in 1992 on Cross Lake that was made for entertaining. The problems • Chipped floor tiles • Dated appliances • Inadequate counter space and storage • Poor lighting • Lacking of a wet bar, buffet and desk • Stark design and layout that didn't fit the size of the room Our goal was to create the log cabin feeling the homeowner wanted, not expanding the size of the kitchen, but utilizing the space better. In the redesign, we removed the half wall separating the kitchen and living room and added a third column to make it visually more appealing. We lowered the 16' vaulted ceiling by adding 3 beams allowing us to add recessed lighting. Repositioning some of the appliances and enlarge counter space made room for many cooks in the kitchen, and a place for guests to sit and have conversation with the homeowners while they prepare meals. Key design features and focal points of the kitchen • Keeping the tongue-and-groove pine paneling on the walls, having it sandblasted and stained to match the cabinetry, brings out the woods character. • Balancing the room size we staggered the height of cabinetry reaching to 9' high with an additional 6” crown molding. • A larger island gained storage and also allows for 5 bar stools. • A former closet became the desk. A buffet in the diningroom was added and a 13' wet bar became a room divider between the kitchen and living room. • We added several arched shapes: large arched-top window above the sink, arch valance over the wet bar and the shape of the island. • Wide pine wood floor with square nails • Texture in the 1x1” mosaic tile backsplash Balance of color is seen in the warm rustic cherry cabinets combined with accents of green stained cabinets, granite counter tops combined with cherry wood counter tops, pine wood floors, stone backs on the island and wet bar, 3-bronze metal doors and rust hardware.