Quebec Street Residence

This house for a young family is 3,600 square feet over two levels in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood near Main Street.

The owners share our very modern / minimalist aesthetic so the design process was very fluid. The primary focus for the house was to connect the living spaces seamlessly at the main floor to the backyard. This was achieved by placing an open living/kitchen/dining great room stretching the full 52’ width of the house facing the backyard, and connecting through a fully operable glass wall system. Polished concrete floors are utilized as a hard and easy to clean surface adjacent to the back patio and yard.

The balance of the main floor features a double height entry and TV room. The second floor has an open office space, four bedrooms, three baths and a spacious laundry room. Skylights fill with light the 50’ long hallway connecting the rooms on this level.

Located on the corner close to Main Street, we needed to have a house that embraced the indoor/outdoor connection but required a sense of privacy from the street. The solution was to control views into the house from the street by allowing windows to clearly frame less private spaces while utilizing dense landscape planting to screen other windows and to soften the vast material expanses facing the street.

The rear yard is protected by higher fencing and landscaping so we were able to allow for 50’ x 20’ height sliding glass panels to completely open up the living space to the south facing yard.