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"built-ins"
In a family home in Mill Valley, California, Lauren Goldman of l’oro designs kept her clients’ goals of “modern yet accessible” in mind while also looking for opportunities to add functionality. This proved successful when she discovered that the empty space under the steel-and-glass stair landing was the perfect scale for children to sit and read under. The team was inspired to create a kid-sized library, turning a useless space into a perfectly cozy reading nook.
Entering the home through the garage, the rest of the house is accessed through the mudroom, which leads up the stairs to the public level or straight through to the bedrooms and backyard beyond. The third stair from the bottom extends into a bench for putting on and taking off shoes. "It was a nice opportunity to make the stairs sculptural and integrated into the space," Willmer says.
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Ken Gutmaker
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