Provence style on Waverley

In the style of a French farmhouse, this home orients all of its rooms toward the garden and the sunshine.  Nestled among nine oak trees, its thick fire resistant walls assist natural cooling while the orientation and scale of deep set European windows provide passive winter heating.  A broad arched loggia is an indoor/outdoor living space and adjoins the dining room, kitchen and family room.  There are two home offices besides the master, boys and guest bedrooms.   The roof hides an extensive PV electric and hot water heating array.

Modern Mediterranean in Southgate

The great room, office/ guest and upstairs bedrooms all face the sunny garden patio and pervious paved court.  The roof is designed to receive a PV and solar hot water array.  Second floor balconies provide outdoor spaces for the bedrooms.  Porches and large bifolding Italian made doors open to the great room, which opens to the patio garden, infusing it with light and tempered sunshine. 

Spanish Revival

This Old Palo Alto Spanish style cottage, from 1928, is being reborn as a two story home that maintains and enhances the feel and lines of the original design.  An "L" shaped second floor wraps around a centrally placed green roof to provide sunny and well shaped bedrooms.  The clay tile roof is integrated with solar electric and solar hot water systems and is super-insulated.  There are a great deal of recycled components that are used in this energy efficient design.

A loggia on the sunny side of the home affords space for indoor outdoor/living and is important to the natural cooling of the structure, which does not require air conditioning.  All day use areas receive plenty of natural light and sunshine during the cool times of the year.  Interior and exterior detailing will reinforce the Spanish revival design of the period.  This theme will be carried out in tile work, wood work, massing and finishes.