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The kitchen, living room, and dining room are combined in a single, airy, great room.

New sliding doors from Marvin enable the family to seamlessly move between the indoors and the refurbished patio.

The double-height wall of windows in the living room looks out on the property and was a big draw on their first walk-through.

The kitchen cabinets were made with cabinet boxes set into framing, then a primed drywall shell covered with a textural Roman Clay finish, and sealed.

The original home was converted into a bedroom level, and given a second-story addition and roof deck. The dark exterior color, a charcoal-eggplant hue, lets the landscape colors stand out in contrast. “The existing house roof became the roof deck,” says Rogers. “And then I just shifted over the addition so that it floated over the landscape.”

Fields of native grasses connect the main residence, situated at the top of the slope, to the new structures scattered below. A pergola extends from the post-and-beam structure that was maintained during the remodel of the midcentury home.

A former factory for Alexander Thomson & Sons Pattern Makers—a company that made wooden forms which were then cast in metal for propellers—this old building now has a new second floor and an excavated cellar, which has increased its floor space from 3,500 square feet to a whooping 8,500 square feet.

At night, opening the entire top floor is a breeze. Russell-Clarke and Moolsintong are even planning of rigging some kind of sail over the back patio for shade. The hot tub is by Roberts Hot Tubs.

A look at the 30-room Post Ranch Inn, which contains no right angles.

This 1962 Eichler home designed by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons is in the Fairhaven tract in Orange, California.

The custom Bulthaup kitchen is outfitted with Gaggenau appliances and Caesarstone countertops.