This project transformed a half-complete, neglected house and landscape in to a growing family's urban home, providing a complete escape from the surrounding environment.  The ground floor of the house contains all of the living spaces and uses a central entry foyer to connect the front and rear entry, opening the house to the expanded rear decks, terraces, and pool, as well as knitting the living, dining, kitchen and family room together.

Spurred on by the Owner's creativity and ambition, we used custom mill-work detailing throughout the ground floor hides storage in almost every corner of the house.  In the second floor master bedroom, the mill-work paneling takes over and defines the space creating a cocoon of wood paneling while hiding closets, dressers, and automatic curtains to close this space off from the outside world.