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To improve connectivity to the rear garden, Soup Architects stretched a new ground floor extension across the width of the side to open up the eastern section of the house. A living room further knits the residence with the green space.

Potrero Residence Garden

Potrero Residence - Before

A lushly landscaped bluestone terrace leads guests to the dining porch, which benefits from two LaCantina Multi-Slide Doors that measure 18 feet wide and nine feet tall.

Design, Bitches turns a typical Atwater Village home into a lush hideaway with a new, cedar-clad guesthouse.

Hutchins and Montague worked with Samuel H. Williamson Associates Landscape Architecture on the garden, which is planted with sword ferns, vine maple, and wild ginger. “When we look at it from the bedroom, it’s our private little forest,” Montague says.

The central courtyard connects to a raised deck for socializing within easy access to the kitchen.

The outdoor fire pit.

Although the home's historic front facade needed to be preserved, the back of the residence was ripe for a remodel. The architects cladded the exterior in eastern cedar. The wood is offset with large expanses of glass, as well as yellow accents to add a playful atmosphere.

The fenced backyard offers an additional play area for the kids.

Both units have access to separated fenced-in backyards.

The Potrero Hill home has a lush front yard with a huge, locally famous avocado tree.

The backyard evokes the serenity of a Japanese Zen garden with a beautiful leaning tree and a shou sugi ban shed.

Beach days, park picnics, and backyard barbecues—wherever your Fourth of July weekend takes you, these products will elevate your event with ease.

The only hint that the couple’s home offers more than it first appears to is a neon house number in a front window.

Surrounded by oak trees and lush grasslands, Field Cabin features a steeply pitched roof and an expansive glass door and decking on the front facade.

A low shelf in the Uli Wagner Design Lab office houses the studio library as well as an assortment of objets d’art that give the space a unique character.