A stunning Novak & Middleton designed home features this floating staircase in the entryway. A timber slat screen and LED lighting under the treads combine to make it a showstopper.

バンクーバーにある高級な中くらいなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな折り返し階段 (カーペット張りの蹴込み板、木材の手すり) の写真

Stairs up to main bedroom. Balustrade and handrail are ash.
オークランドにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段 (木の蹴込み板、木材の手すり) の写真

ロンドンにある高級な広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな階段 (木の蹴込み板、木材の手すり) の写真

Read all about this family-friendly remodel on our blog: http://jeffkingandco.com/from-the-contractors-bay-area-remodel/. Architect: Steve Swearengen, AIA | the Architects Office / Photography: Paul Dyer

トロントにある高級な小さなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれなかね折れ階段 (カーペット張りの蹴込み板、木材の手すり、板張り壁) の写真

Project by Wiles Design Group. Their Cedar Rapids-based design studio serves the entire Midwest, including Iowa City, Dubuque, Davenport, and Waterloo, as well as North Missouri and St. Louis. For more about Wiles Design Group, see here: https://wilesdesigngroup.com/ To learn more about this project, see here: https://wilesdesigngroup.com/relaxed-family-home

New 3-bedroom 2.5 bathroom house, with 3-car garage. 2,635 sf (gross, plus garage and unfinished basement). All photos by 12/12 Architects & Kmiecik Photography.

デンバーにある高級な中くらいなカントリー風のおしゃれな階段 (木材の手すり) の写真

American Cherry treads, newel post and railings.
フィラデルフィアにある高級な中くらいなエクレクティックスタイルのおしゃれな直階段 (フローリングの蹴込み板、木材の手すり) の写真

The Narrabeen House is located on the edge of Narrabeen Lagoon and is fortunate to have outlook across water to an untouched island dense with casuarinas. By contrast, the street context is unremarkable without the slightest hint of the lagoon beyond the houses lining the street and manages to give the impression of being deep in suburbia. The house is new and replaces a former 1970s cream brick house that functioned poorly and like many other houses from the time, did little to engage with the unique environmental qualities of the lagoon. In starting this project, we clearly wanted to re-dress the connection with the lagoon and island, but also found ourselves drawn to the suburban qualities of the street and this dramatic contrast between the front and back of the property. This led us to think about the project within the framework of the ‘suburban ideal’ - a framework that would allow the house to address the street as any other suburban house would, while inwardly pursuing the ideals of oasis and retreat where the water experience could be used to maximum impact - in effect, amplifying the current contrast between street and lagoon. From the street, the house’s composition is built around the entrance, driveway and garage like any typical suburban house however the impact of these domestic elements is diffused by melding them into a singular architectural expression and form. The broad facade combined with the floating skirt detail give the house a horizontal proportion and even though the dark timber cladding gives the building a ‘stealth’ like appearance, it still withholds the drama of the lagoon beyond. This sets up two key planning strategies. Firstly, a central courtyard is introduced as the principal organising element for the planning with all of the house’s key public spaces - living room, dining room, kitchen, study and pool - grouped around the courtyard to connect these spaces visually, and physically when the courtyard walls are opened up. The arrangement promotes a socially inclusive dynamic as well as extending the spatial opportunities of the house. The courtyard also has a significant environmental role bringing sun, light and air into the centre of the house. Secondly, the planning is composed to deliberately isolate the occupant from the suburban surrounds to heighten the sense of oasis and privateness. This process begins at the street bringing visitors through a succession of exterior spaces that gradually compress and remove the street context through a composition of fences, full height screens and thresholds. The entry sequence eventually terminates at a solid doorway where the sense of intrigue peaks. Rather than entering into a hallway, one arrives in the courtyard where the full extent of the private domain, the lagoon and island are revealed and any sense of the outside world removed. The house also has an unusual sectional arrangement driven partly by the requirement to elevate the interior 1.2m above ground level to safeguard against flooding but also by the desire to have open plan spaces with dual aspect - north for sun and south for the view. Whilst this introduces issues with the scale relationship of the house to its neighbours, it enables a more interesting multi- level relationship between interior and exterior living spaces to occur. This combination of sectional interplay with the layout of spaces in relation to the courtyard is what enables the layering of spaces to occur - it is possible to view the courtyard, living room, lagoon side deck, lagoon and island as backdrop in just one vista from the study. Flood raising 1200mm helps by introducing level changes that step and advantage the deeper views Porosity radically increases experience of exterior framed views, elevated The vistas from the key living areas and courtyard are composed to heighten the sense of connection with the lagoon and place the island as the key visual terminating feature. The materiality further develops the notion of oasis with a simple calming palette of warm natural materials that have a beneficial environmental effect while connecting the house with the natural environment of the lagoon and island.

インディアナポリスにある高級な中くらいなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな折り返し階段 (フローリングの蹴込み板、木材の手すり) の写真

Don Pearse Photographers
他の地域にある高級な中くらいなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれなサーキュラー階段 (フローリングの蹴込み板、木材の手すり) の写真

Don Pearse Photographers
他の地域にある高級な中くらいなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれなサーキュラー階段 (フローリングの蹴込み板、木材の手すり) の写真

Duvinage Spiral Stairs
ボストンにある高級な中くらいなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな階段 (木材の手すり) の写真

Open rise, free standing stair. All wood design with natural stain. Photographer - Catie Hope.
ワシントンD.C.にある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな直階段 (木材の手すり) の写真

A stunning Novak & Middleton designed home features this floating staircase in the entryway. A timber slat screen and LED lighting under the treads combine to make it a showstopper.

photo: steines architecture View from loft space into light flooded bathroom. Bathroom bay in back.
ボストンにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな直階段 (木の蹴込み板、木材の手すり) の写真

This 1990s brick home had decent square footage and a massive front yard, but no way to enjoy it. Each room needed an update, so the entire house was renovated and remodeled, and an addition was put on over the existing garage to create a symmetrical front. The old brown brick was painted a distressed white. The 500sf 2nd floor addition includes 2 new bedrooms for their teen children, and the 12'x30' front porch lanai with standing seam metal roof is a nod to the homeowners' love for the Islands. Each room is beautifully appointed with large windows, wood floors, white walls, white bead board ceilings, glass doors and knobs, and interior wood details reminiscent of Hawaiian plantation architecture. The kitchen was remodeled to increase width and flow, and a new laundry / mudroom was added in the back of the existing garage. The master bath was completely remodeled. Every room is filled with books, and shelves, many made by the homeowner. Project photography by Kmiecik Imagery.