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Level Headed
To convert a musty mid-century house with a nonsensical floor plan into a modern and space-efficient family home, three intrepid designers played a bit of architectural Tetris.
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Level Best
Los Angeles architect Ray Kappe built a multilevel house for his family back in 1967, and the results still resonate today.
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Sea Ranch in the Suburbs
Whether you consider it democracy at work or architectural sacrilege, the online retailer houseplans.com has begun selling blueprints for homes in The Sea Ranch, the legendary planned community…
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Level Bookcase
Primary colors and black lines put Piet Mondrian into history and onto the grid. Arik Levy’s Level bookcase gives green a go and yellow the boot, though it still evokes the Dutch de Stijlist’s rigid…
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Plane Toy
Suspended from the ceiling as an aeronautic decoration or swooping around in the hands of your little one, this lacquered wood plane from Normann Copenhagen is a toy that takes good ol' imagination…
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Tools
Attractive enough to go straight from the oven to an elegant dinner table, the oven pans double as serving dishes that fit into a purpose built wooden tray made of natural oak with indentations…
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Level Bookcase
by Arik LevyPrimary colors and black lines put Piet Mondrian…
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Tools
by Björn DahlströmAttractive enough to go straight from the oven…
how amazing to see a split level house in a magazine article. while it is not my favorite style of house i have been living in one on long island, ny for almost 15 years! when my daughter told me about the article i found it difficult to believe. no one writes about split levels! they are everywhere but they might as well be no where! anyway, i love what this couple did with their's. is there anyway i can find out the dimensions of their rooms so that i can compare their house with mine. also are there any other photos of their kitchen? thank you for the article. it is an inspiration!
Nice article and great photos. This home style is typical of West Vancouver real estate stock, and most of these homes are being torn down and rebuilt now that land prices have soared. It would be more interesting to see some of the important 50's and 60's architecturally designed modernist homes featured in Dwell. So many of these homes in West Vancouver are overlooked. There are several important homes on the market right now that can bought at the same prices as ordinary splits and that have much more interesting design than this house.
Splits are funny- their open-space design is fairly contemporary-- but many of them, including ours (circa 1973) were built with a traditional aesthetic (we think ours really wanted to be a colonial when it grew up.) To confuse matters, the the former owners updated it to about 1986. So what we're trying to do is restore it to a 1970s feel that it never really had in the first place! This article gives us lots of great ideas- many thanks!
We are Dwell fans and were very inspired by this remodel, especially the exterior color and materials, but also by its creative minimalism. We own a split-foyer (bi-level), not a "split-level" like the subject of this article, but some of the ideas could apply to either style. Just by opinion but I think it best when remodeling these types of home to keep them in their period, rather than trying to create a faux colonial or something alien to the original design. Work with it -- there's much potential there. I began writing about our split-foyer model on my blog, and will be posting more images as it progresses. I also have been gathering useful links. Check out: http://purcellart.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/split-foyer-challenge-update/
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