Framestudio

Midcentury Modern Ranch

Five years after commissioning Framestudio to remodel their previous home, our clients contacted us about a dramatic hillside midcentury home with commanding views of Mount Diablo. The 1958 home had suffered from unsympathetic alterations over the years, not the least of which: falling victim to decades of decorating trends.

In our design, we expanded on the good original elements and discarded the bad. We sought to create timeless interiors as if Henry Hill himself had envisioned them. See more

Esherick Mini-Mod

This diminutive weekend home, designed by Joseph Esherick and Associates in 1968, has democratic and ecological principles running in its very foundation. It is one of a series of demonstration homes commissioned by The Sea Ranch developer Oceanic Properties and an example of a well designed, ecologically sensitive weekend getaway home that would have been affordable to a family on a school teacher’s income. See more

Poolhouse Addition

Our client tasked us with designing an addition to a suburban ranch house that would contain a swim spa and home gym.

Their single directive: Nothing else on or in the house was to be touched.

Our solution was inspired by modernist extensions to centuries-old historic buildings in Europe. We created a dramatic angular glass volume clad in weathered cedar, riffing off the imagery of yard fences commonly found in Los Altos. See more