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The main door leads to a massive formal living space bathed in natural light through the huge wall to wall windows that make up two of the walls. An ample seating of ten allows the client to host guests. Neutral coloured walls, curtains and sofas are balanced with striking chairs from Hanuzzi having a black and white houndstooth pattern upholstery. The black and white combination is carried on to the custom-made centre tables as well where a zebra patterned marble is used for the table top supported with a base finished with black PU.
It was important to make the home as fire-resistant as possible, granted its wooded Northern California site. (Natalie is on the board of the wildfire council.) The Harrisons pulled the siding off the house and put it through a shou sugi ban treatment — contractors created a giant burn box and roasted the whole pile. “It feels earthy, and also like you never have to treat it again,” explains Natalie. “We found people to actually do this—they burn it, and put it back up.”