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The open and airy courtyard and dining area encourages outdoor living. A custom table made from Andiroba wood and Magis White Air armchairs complete the space.

A combination of sliding doors, strategically placed voids, and large indoor plantings create fluid boundaries between indoors and out. The interior courtyard garden—landscaped with tropical plants and volcanic sand—is visually accessible from nearly every room, including the dining and kitchenarea.

Tucked beneath a grassy roof covered by nearly 200 species of plants and grasses, the structure is virtually invisible from the nearby street. In fact, the 1,400-square-foot house is so well hidden in the earth that it doesn’t seem to register on the radar of local wildlife either. Birds, butterflies, bees, dragonflies, hawks, snakes, lizards, and frogs all treat the house like just another grassy knoll.

A Lisbon freestanding tub and “a church chair from a junk shop” complete the children’s bathroom.

The cavity for the bathtub is part of the same continuous form-world as House Ray 1’s sloping roofscape. The white tub is made from Corian; the faucet is by Dornbracht.

A sculptural freestanding washbasin by Gessi is found in the first-floor powder room. The hex tiles are courtesy of Dear Human.

In the bathroom, a teak live-edge countertop and custom yellow cabinet support a double wash basin by Duravit. A mirror from Restoration Hardware hangs below custom lights, designed by the homeowner for a steampunk look.

KEEP – POKE Pendant, Aquamarine hand blown glass, Hand finished satin brass hardware, Steel cloth cord, dimmable LED bulb

Install shot of the DRIFT Chandelier – hand blown glass globes, white cane patterning, hand-blackened brass hardware, cloth cords, Edison-style LED bulbs. Designed and made by KEEP Adam Holtzinger + Susan Spiranovich

Open concept master suite

Living room

Open living space

Pocketing glass doors open the master bedroom to the back yard

A focus of the renovation was to accentuate the original beams of the mid-century home