Entry/Mudroom/Closets

Rakesh holds Poppy, 3, while Benedict, 6, and Noor, 14, play nearby. Ria, 11, and Amanda look down from the balcony. A standing seam metal roof and charred cedar cladding help keep the maintenance low. “At one point the house was supposed to be white, like the previous structure and the main house,” says Maceda. “But in the middle of the process, I said: ‘Why don’t we go black and just match the shingles of the old garage, since this house is a different thing?’ ”