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“The steep site lends itself to the ‘upside down’ configuration,” Harkness explains. “It certainly wouldn’t work as well if you could only access the house via the lower level, as this is through the bedroom zone, so we included two entrances. The upper one involves walking across a little bridge.”

Busick refreshed the house’s east-facing façade by painting the trim a bold black that echoes the steel addition at the rear.