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"The house is so small that the renovation required a lot of attention to get the scale of the details right, light the crown molding,

The bedrooms are lit by clerestory windows for privacy from the more public side of the plot.

The primary bedroom still has fantastic sight lines to the water from its second-floor location.

All of the new flooring is engineered hardwood. Tiffany didn’t like how high the ceilings felt, so she painted a green arch behind the bed to improve the scale. The arch also repeats in a lot of the furnishings, from the Alky chairs to the dining room table.

"The site has lush vegetation dotted with mature live oak trees, and Sarah is a gifted gardener who keeps the yard beautiful,

The bedroom and study is crowned by a vaulted ceiling inspired by the classic Catalan vault. Today, this traditional solution of covering a vault with flat terracotta bricks has evolved into prefabricated pieces of ceramic-filled block. It not only provides structural strength for the concrete slab, but also improves its acoustic and thermal qualities.

“Each room is a color box with a specific color from floor to ceiling,” says Alix. “It creates a kind of unity.”

In the primary bedroom, the custom bed is joined by a side table from Dims and a pendant by Norm Architects for Menu.

Upstairs, the primary bedroom is spartan, with just a bed and an antique wardrobe. The former studio’s rough walls and ceiling were left uncovered and painted white.