Undivided Intentions

Verda Alexander and her son, Apolo, collaborate on a project in their first-floor studio.

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In the living room, local artwork and an elegant redwood ceiling watch over a side chair by Warren Platner for Knoll and an Easy Edges side chair by Frank Gehry for Vitra.

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As his parents look on, Apolo plans his commute under a fire-top piece by the artist Michael Ricardo Andreev and alongside a Wiggle chair by Frank Gehry.

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Alexander walks from the bedroom pod into the living room under her freeway-inspired sculpture, titled Run A Way.

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Orpilla pecks, Apolo pedals.

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The bridge leads from the living room to the bedrooms and from the studio to the garage.

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Orpilla and Alexander’s first furniture purchase, a Christopher Deam credenza, now inspires a much larger collection of furniture.

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Inspiration crowds Alexander’s studio desk.

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A garage full of cupboards can’t contain Orpilla’s toolkit.

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Those hammers and saws built a home for the family’s chickens, watched over by Apolo among outdoor furniture by Richard Schultz.

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Alexander and Apolo find a sunny spot for story. The slanting roof and ample dappled light makes curling up no chore at all.

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Apolo's bedroom is unmistakably that of a young boy, as the old-school computer font and clear debt to NASA suggest.

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A salon-style hanging of art and the wooden handrail-cum-towel rack give the bathroom a handful of subtly stylish touches.

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The long hallways do as much to delineate the home's space as the windows do. A pair of Wire series chairs for Knoll by Warren Platner add a space-age modern feel to the home's leafy vibe.

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For a slightly funkier feel, opt for a variety of high-design chairs around your table. A less rigid approach to hanging art can also ease the hard lines of much modern decor and add to a more bohemian vibe to your home.

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The family is never far from the outdoors, as this lush view from the dining room attests.

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Chicken under glass? Apolo will settle for eggs for breakfast.

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From the deck you really get a sense of the two main volumes of the house. One faces inward and the other out, a fine representation of Boone's ideas about the division between work space and living space.

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There's little concern about privacy considering the canopy of trees that surrounds the house. Alexander, and the chickens, take advantage of their sunny Northern Californian clime.

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