Houzz Tour: Living Luxuriously With Nature
A fresh modern look, indoor-outdoor dwelling, and a design that matched nearby mid-century ranch homes has been the vision for the house exterior Baltimore, MD.. Local design firm Ziger/Snead filled the bill with walls of windows, indoor-outdoor transitions along with a smart design that built the house to a hill, giving the 6,000-foot, two-story structure a lower profile when seen from the road. It’s certainly high-end and minimalist in style, but it’s also customized using a detailed awareness of purpose that gives it a cozy and private sense.
Here is the house in back. A customized mahogany window-wall system helps blend the most important living space together with the terraces, gardens, and swimming pool in the backyard. To keep energy prices down, the company used high-performance glazing and large roof overhangs to keep the home cool in the summer. In the winter, glowing concrete and tile floors work together with the low angle of the sun to keep the home warm and comfortable.
And here’s how it looks from the front. While the house is really two stories, part of the home is embedded into the hillside, so from the road the house seems to be one-story large, similar to the other ranch houses nearby.
The main body of the house is wrapped into a zinc rainscreen system, an exterior feature which truly sits out another exterior wall. Gaps between each bit of zinc permit air to circulate and direct moisture away from your home. Added smaller rooms in the home are covered in red cedar siding.
Ziger/Snead Architects
The home’s layout is nearly like a split-level in reverse. Together with the main living areas on the ground floor, the top floor includes a garage, home office, and entryway. This setup makes it possible for visitors to experience the view of the principal living area as soon as they step in the front door.
Ziger/Snead Architects
The entrance leads on a bridge, which covers the fantastic space and leads to the home office. A staircase leads down to the main room, though a glass wall combined once side of the bridge reveals a view of the enclosed front courtyard.
Ziger/Snead Architects
The main living room, put together by interior designer Jay Jenkins, of Jenkins Baer Associates, is a clinic in casual elegance. The colors and furniture collections flow beautifully with the picture floor covering from Warp & Weft. The light colors embrace the abundance of natural daylight in the room, along with a carefully placed chrome Arco Floor Lamp adds to the warm and open ambiance.
Ziger/Snead Architects
Stainless steel and walnut shelving in the main living space display items from the owner’s numerous collections. The dining chairs are from Holly Hunt.
Ziger/Snead Architects
The kitchen is an easy area made from dark wood cabinets and marble countertops, elegantly incorporated into the living and dining spaces. As it’s visible upon entering the house, kitchen needed to be as slick and modern as the remainder of the house. All appliances are concealed behind a pair of bi-fold doors.
Ziger/Snead Architects
The kitchen, dining area, and living area are in one 18-foot-high area on the floor together with the mahogany window. Having the primary living area right next to the window wall allows the customer to experience the outdoors even when inside.
Ziger/Snead Architects
One of the cedar sections of the house can be seen when viewing the master bedroom from the exterior. Designed as boxes which connect to the main zinc- rainscreen-covered area, the entrance, guest bedroom/office, and master bedroom have been comprised in these warm, wooden spaces.
Ziger/Snead Architects
The master bedroom is a bright and light-filled area. Interior designer Jenkins did the space in a blue, yellow, and white palette. Glass pocket doors keep the nearly seamless transition between inside and outside, while eclectic paintings out of Baltimore artist Deena Feigelson Margolis accent the walls.
Ziger/Snead Architects
The walls are coated with a durable white nylon with silver coloured threads incorporated into the fabric. Their subtle glow makes the space glow. Custom made window treatments and bed linens complete the lavish look.
Ziger/Snead Architects
A slick all-white master bath connects to the bedroom.
Ziger/Snead Architects
A gorgeous limestone mosaic tile one of the walls in the master bathroom adds texture and visual interest whilekeeping within the home’s clean, modern style.
Designed with a comfy atmosphere in your mind, the den is the one area in the house that does not get natural light. A pink couch, artwork and colorful accents brings and cheer in the space.
Ziger/Snead Architects
Landscaping by Hord Coplan Macht reflects the customer’s love for nature. A bluestone terrace with a canopy of ginkgo trees, lavender, and bubbling fountains provides a soothing space between the home and the remainder of the yard. The window wall on the home part of the house takes advantage of the terrace in mild weather, once the windows can be opened to the breezes.
All photography is by Alain Jaramillo, Kevin Weber, Douglas Bothner
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