Cool Vibes

The existing home already took advantage of the former pool location to create a meadow of flowers and mint, but it was redone by Lynley Ogilvie Landscape Design.

A screen porch just off the dining room was added, enhancing the home's indoor-outdoor feel.

As most of the original interior had been gutted and remodeled by previous owners, the surviving design elements were just the bones, including the floor plan, facade, and most of the original framework. The owner used these structural components to heighten the indoor/outdoor quality, while also replacing frosted glass with clear, double-paned glass.

The late-1960s remodel added a staircase to the interior courtyard to access the second floor. The home’s original intent—to allow each room to spill into the courtyard—remains.

The expanded home reflects an evolution of Chase’s design tastes, but maintains the courtyard’s function as a communal gathering space.

Almost ten years after John Chase completed his family home, a grand, two-story living area was added. New architectural details, like square, wooden shingle-trim blocks, shifted the home’s character away from the influence of Mies van der Rohe and toward the stylings of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Many of the rooms feature floor-to-ceiling windows that open into the surrounding desert.