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Hannah and Rami converted the second bedroom into an office, featuring a plywood-topped desk and shelving unit that Hannah made for their previous rental.

A picnic table in a matching hue to the Stealth Barn rests between the two structures.

becomes this wood cocoon with ambient light coming through the clear wall panel. You don’t need to even turn on a light.”

For Gabriel Ramirez and his partner Sarah Mason Williams, following the Sea Ranch rules—local covenants guide new designs—didn’t mean slipping into Sea Ranch clichés. The architects love Cor-Ten steel, with its ruddy and almost organic surface, and they made it the main exterior material, along with board-formed concrete and ipe wood. The Cor-Ten, which quickly turned an autumnal rust in the sea air, and the concrete, with its grain and crannies, mean the house isn’t a pristine box, Ramirez says. His Neutra house “was very crisp and clean,” he says. “This house is more distressed, more wabi-sabi.”