Favorites

The bathroom layout was reconfigured for more privacy, and wrapped in honed beige marble.

In the bathroom, a skylight above the shower lets the light pour in.

In the breezy bathroom, three walls are finished with white marble.

A marble-clad bathroom joins the bedroom and overlooks the skylit living area below.

A peek inside the powder room.

The powder room is a retreat from the main living areas. The firm set off the Victorian ash storage and mirror unit by surrounding it with black hexagon tile. A "sky tunnel" in the ceiling floods the room with natural light.

Cero offers an offset vanity and a circular bowl.

“I’ve always been crazy about tile,” says Jessy, which is why she was heartbroken when she found the 1961 powder blue tile in the master bathroom had been scribbled on with permanent marker. “Turn right for cold water. Turn left for hot,” the wall read. The new tile is by Ann Sacks. “We tried to source products that looked appropriate for the period,” Jessy explains.

Lookofsky painted the exterior of the house a bright red tone that pays tribute to the other red, more traditional, houses in the area.

Now, a short hallway joins the two bedrooms and shared bathroom, which is through the door to the left. “It’s large enough to feel like the loft that it is, but also intimate in these back areas,” says Watts.

The architects did not want "the operating theater" of can lights, so Ernesto designed a custom fixture consisting of a simple steel plate that disguises "cheap can lights," seen here in the upper hallway. "It looks like a $1,500 fixture, but it's like $300," he says.

The corridor hosts the refrigerator and laundry units behind sleek white cabinetry fronts.

The entry door opens up to direct views of the central courtyard. "This view replaces the traditional accent wall, or piece of artwork, with a glass opening framing the sky and exotic plants (with a 500-year-old ironwood tree focal point) drawing your eye through the courtyard, expanding the feeling of the space," note the architects. The black lighting fixture is from Restoration Hardware.

The long hallway runs past a double-height volume and overlooks the basement level. “Two big windows allow natural light to reach the basement from the ground floor,” says Wallace. “Because of this, the experience of being in the basement feels as little like being in a basement as possible.”

The skylit hallway beside the bedrooms is not just a pass-through space—it provides room for the kids to play.

A vanity and bathroom are located between the living area and bedroom.

Large glazed walls connect the different functional volumes of the home. “You are constantly aware of the landscape as you walk from one area of the house to the next,” says Costello. This impression of the landscape being a part of the home itself is emphasized by the continuation of the board-formed concrete from exterior to interior.