Orchard Jam

Music is central to Andrew McKenzie’s living arrangements. With guitars hanging on his Gaboon plywood walls, he always has an instrument at hand.

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The kitchen is small but utilizes all available space—even allowing room for a hat or two.

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The living area features glass doors to ensure it is bathed in light, warmth, and pastoral outlooks.

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The living area gains further sun from a skylight in the high pyramid-shaped roof.

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New trees have been planted along the orchard grid to provide privacy.

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The corridor by the staircase leads to the kitchen and offers storage space.

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McKenzie composes at his dining table, which, like many furnishings in the house, came from a secondhand store. The living area flows into an outside courtyard, whose slats parallel those inside, making it feel like an extension of the main house.

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The study is narrow but illuminated by a window, louvered like others in the house to help regulate heat.

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The Gaboon-plywood walls flow through into the bathroom without a door to get in the way.

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The mezzanine bedroom sits beneath the off-center apex of the pyramid roof, with a view over the orchard, one of McKenzie’s few stipulations for the home’s design.

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McKenzie and neighbor James McNeill play in the living area.

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