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Kitchen design and cabinetry by Puustelli USA, designed in collaboration with Streeter Homes

Kitchen design and cabinetry by Puustelli USA, designed in collaboration with Streeter Homes

Kitchen design and cabinetry by Puustelli USA, designed in collaboration with Streeter Homes

Kitchen design and cabinetry by Puustelli USA, designed in collaboration with Streeter Homes

Kitchen design and cabinetry by Puustelli USA, designed in collaboration with Streeter Homes

The dining area features floor-to-ceiling picture windows and black-framed glass doors that open onto the back patio.

The remodel involved removing a wall in the kitchen to open up the main living spaces. “I typically prefer having individual rooms for certain purposes, but the open plan works well in a midcentury home,” says Whitney.

Pink Smeg refrigerator

The bar can be completely concealed behind the timber joinery when not in use.

The custom breakfast nook brings natural light in from above and frames the surrounding landscape, allowing the family to appreciate the play of morning light over the meadow.

“We often hear that our homes don’t look like prefab,” says architect Meelena Oleksiuk Turkel. “But there’s no reason high quality, good design and prefabrication can’t work together.” Mulmur Hills Farm, for example, makes use of thermally modified ash cladding that contributes to both durability and beauty.

The architects maintained the midcentury post-and-beam construction and Japanese-inspired details of the original building, while brightening and expanding the interior living spaces. Patricia Urquiola’s Tufty-Time sofa for B&B Italia meets Pebble coffee tables by Nathan Yong for Ligne Roset in the living room.

A tub zone lined in redwood connects to the master bedroom, which is furnished with a vintage Sergio Rodrigues lounge chair and Voyage Immobile seats from Roche Bobois.

Fung + Blatt designed the master bathroom vanity, which features Agape washbasins and fixtures and an angled mirror that reflects the oak trees seen through the skylights.

"Maintaining sight lines to the outdoors and the adjacent den, we introduced a connectivity that transforms the kitchen into the center of family life,

Mary Blodgett and Carlton Calvin initially approached Fung + Blatt to design a ceramics studio on their Southern California property, which contains a 1950s house by modernist architect Calvin Straub.

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 pop-up table adds extra seating.