01/07/2025
Hello Friends,
Well, it's been a minute since We posted anything. But, there has been work going on. Attached here is a project we've just sent out to permit.
It's a full custom private home, nestled on a slightly graded and wooded lot, here in Muskoka. The focus of the design is a lightness of structure and it's interaction with the surrounding environment, within a somewhat restricted footprint.
In order to open the main living spaces, both literally and emotionally, to the surrounding forest, We've created what I've started referring to as an 'inverted building plan'. (This probably isn't a new thing, but I do like the sound of it.) Where the main living space is at an upper level, lifted above the grade, accessed by a voluminous entry, which finally opens into a room full of light and the views to the surrounding landscape. While bedrooms and service areas are relegated, primarily, to the lower level. Their function being more the reflected dictates of pure need, than the emotive and spiritual requirements of the main living spaces. The exception, in this inverted plan, being the main bedroom suite. Which situated companionless on the upper level, answers to the home owners specific request that it be a private enclave, with it's own flow and rhythm, separate from the remainder of the home, as much as function..... and the rules of physics..... permitted.
The main level is the heart of this space. The living/dining/kitchen areas ARE more classically subdivided, each with their own language, all tied to the forest outside: From the bright cathedral like space of the living room, with wood burning fireplace, soaring ceilings and walls of art and glass. To an elegant and formal dining space. To a crucially functional kitchen, designed to the demanding specifications of a owner/home-chef. Finally, a large interior/exterior screened porch, where site, sound and scent of the land couples seamlessly (and bug free) with a comfortable and spacious living/entertaining space. All tied together by a corridor designed as a journey, filled with the books, nick-nacks and reminders of travel and a life lived on walls filled with built in shelves and cabinets.
The homeowners love of privacy, and despise of disorder, is reflected throughout the design. From decisions surrounding layout and room locations, to the prolific use of built in furniture, and storage that doubles as secret doors to less than desirable or private areas.
Today's post is a few snapshots of the plans and a couple of, decidedly crude modelled, exteriors. There will be more on this project as it moves forward.
If it hasn't been made clear in some of the descriptions here above, We've been contracted to take care of the interiors, as well. So as those designs unfold, and we get a better handle on our new modelling software, an incredibly humbling experience, I must say. Anyway, We'll post more as we get/create them.
If you're interested in talking to us more about what We can do for you, please feel free to reach out to us. I do ask, that if you call, you leave a message and we'll call back ASAP (7O5-783-288I). Alternately you can follow us here on Mother Facebook, and reach out through Messenger or the handy dandy email interface.
Thanks for your time and interest.
Regards,
Remarkable Structures
