Before & After: A Berkeley Cottage Grows to Embrace Its Boulder-Studded Site

The original home was converted into a bedroom level, and given a second-story addition and roof deck. The dark exterior color (a charcoal-eggplant hue) lets the landscape colors stand out in contrast. "The existing house roof became the roof deck," says Rogers. "And then I just shifted over the addition so that it floated over the landscape."