Do I see ceiling fans mounted on the top of the beams? So you have to remember to turn your fans on "backwards" of what you'd do if they were ceiling-mounted?

Must be a weekend house for entertaining...but watch out for the creature about to swoop down on the table and snatch up the beef tenderloin!

Climb into the shower?!! I do like the towels.

It's in the city proper, technically, so I think it's a full time residence. The nearby Esherick house is another 1-bedroom modernist.

I think the shower is entered from a completely different door. It seems to be sink/toilet compartment linked to vanity/shower compartment by that window. It would probably be tempting to climb through.

I think it's a vaulted somersault into the shower.

But it would be a fun weekend place.

The thing the bothers me most is the weird cone shaped posts on the patio. They just look so heavy and out of place with the rest of the house.

That's one of the post modernist elements on the exterior

I like it. I like all the different woods and different stains - that's where the homey feeling comes from, I think. For all it's seemingly large openness the space seems to be well planned and divided up into useful areas. I'd probably carry the bedroom paint colour into the rest of the space.

I'd be afraid that I'd lose the cats to that large gargoyle-type thing that is poised to swoop down.

A lot of the beams and things feel like they are disjointed? Not attached or supported properly? Something. I don't have the right vocabulary. I think I would feel uneasy in that house. Not that I logically think it is unsafe at all, just a feeling.

You are looking at two different elements, three maybe if you include the partition walls that stop short of any ceiling.

The beams and trusses are complete, and then the other rectangular and curved stuff running through (painted white, or silver metal) are the heat and air conditioning ducts and ventilation ducts for the range and bathrooms. That's the "deconstructionist" part of the interior. As I mentioned before, it bothers me most over the bed.

Have to agree with you, Pal, about the duct over the bed. Other than that I rather like it.

I think it is the partition walls stopping short of the ceiling that leaves me feeling uneasy. I know rationally that the wall isn't necessary to hold up the beams but my instinct somehow is that the beams and trusses are unsupported. If the wall wasn't there at all, I'd be fine I'm pretty sure. It's that incompleteness. I wonder how I'd feel if I were actually inside the space.

crl_, do you live along a fault line by any chance? :P

Fori, lol. Grew up in tornado country and live in earthquake country. Probably explains a lot.

I like the house too -- an interesting house is better than a dull house, and this one certainly is interesting. I'll bet it's noisy inside, though.

Interesting place, I like it but it is way too busy for me. Can't see how anyone could describe it as minimalist. Shower does seem odd.

I am surprised people like it. One of the things that I don't care for is that there are a lot of unresolved open spaces and boundaries between different parts of the house (which is intentional in the design)--and I don't really like unresolved open spaces.

I LOVE it. For ME, only. That would be my ideal hideaway!

Kswl, that is exactly what I wanted to post. Love it, and I could see myself living there all by myself. Plus my puppies. DH can visit.

I think I might just take one of my three dogs. And I am not at all sure I would want to share it with visitors, even DH!

Like: Exterior and setting, doors and windows.

Don't like: No windows in kitchen, how the loft half wall dies into the middle of the window, bed placement.

How is one supposed to reach the utensils hanging over the stove or perhaps they are decorative? I don't like completely open spaces where sounds travel without any buffers so this wouldn't be a house that I would find comfortable.