Before & After: An Architect’s Ever-Changing Bungalow Evolves Over Seven Years

Now, large doors connect inside and out—as does the double-sided fireplace. Instead of installing a flat fascia board at the roof, David "went to a metal shop and had a stainless-steel V-shape fabricated. It gives us that sharp metal edge, almost like a wing of a plane." The new deck is made of Pakari, a thermally modified pine that is chemical free, insect and rot resistant, renewable, and California fire rated.