Valley Addition
Interior Photography: Jamie Barron
Sherman Oaks, California
Completed 2024Proposed as an efficient solution for a young family in need of
increased floor area, this rear-yard addition adds a bedroom, a dining room and a
flexible gym/den space to an existing one-story house. Working within side and
rear-yard setbacks, the addition’s identity is primarily shaped by its stepped roofline, a
new elevation visible only from the back yard. Hidden by the existing pitched roofline,
from the street the house is business as usual. The addition is a pleasantly playful
surprise to anyone that steps into the back yard.
At the interior, the central dining room’s generous ceiling height and wall-to-wall
clerestory windows allow it to act as a natural light lantern for the adjacent living
space. A cost-efficient alternative to skylights, the clerestory windows’ height brings in
plenty of daylight and provides sky-views from the dining room table. To better
articulate the continuous windows from the interior, square-edge 1x1 lumber creates
mullion-like divisions across the clerestories and provide some scale to the space. New
custom millwork provides built-in storage in both the dining room and den.
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