Home Addition

Located just 15 minutes from Downtown Portland, the historic home offers a convenient city escape. The landscaped exterior is a slice of low-maintenance paradise, presenting a lush turf lawn and an expansive concrete driveway.

Extra-wide concrete pillars help to support the studio at its core.

The remote studio/office that Robert Swatt of Swatt Miers Architects designed for a Healdsburg, California, property is marked by glass walls that provide the feeling of working in nature.

The lower-level bathroom enjoys a door to the outdoors so the family can enter directly after surfing. Green Emser tiles are arranged in a unique alternating pattern, and the shower floor is from Concrete Collaborative.

There’s a visual connection between the old building and the new one, thanks to a shared palette of materials: concrete and wood abound.

The expansion is flanked on both sides by lush gardens. Here, the line between indoors and outdoors is blurred to the extreme... to the homeowners' delight.

The house's many mature trees provide privacy from nearby neighbors, while the large canopy covers an extended outdoor deck.

The Rosy Mound Retreat is comprised of two intersecting volumes: a wood-clad main house and a living room wing.

Friends gather in the courtyard to make the most of Minneapolis's limited temperate times.

A tall steel gate grants entry to the courtyard.

While the new facade is swathed in black stucco, it maintains elements of the original carriage house, which is hidden within the wall. Beyond the grounding stucco base, Healey designed two white volumes to be seen above, teasing the idea that more exists beyond the entry point.

Behind the glass facade is the couple’s workshop. The bicycles are prototypes they designed and use as their primary means of transportation. Called Metro-Pedals, they’re built of lightweight aircraft steel and feature interchangeable cargo accessories, low maintenance internal gears, and hydraulic brakes. “They’re the ultimate utility vehicle for the modern metropolis,” says Chris.

The light-gauge steel structure sits on top of a garage

Kitchen