designing a dormer bedroom
I saw this DORMER BEDROOM, on the left, a bedroom by Glambastiani Design, in Houzz,
Windows raised high above the floor, generous dormer, slanted wood ceiling, and simple white walls.
Middle image is the Sketchup/Podium drawings and on right is the finished bedroom.
This has light from 2 sides, a low ceiling for refuge, and a high ceiling for view.
This became the pattern of the entire 2nd floor.
designing a sunroom
This simple sunroom, was exactly right.
I found this picture, in Patrick Ahearn’s book TIMELESS. A beautiful book full of great ideaa.
Same structure. I add a fake background to imagine the woods in my yard.
This sunroom has openings, not windows, the view is clear, and the breeze is fine.
The sunroom is over 20 feet above the hillside, (insects don’t fly this high here.)
designing a bathroom
This is the bathroom from the same architect bedroom above (Glambastiani).
A virtual view of the bathroom vanity layout, using the same window height as the adjacent bedroom.
designing a roof with dormers
The step down between windows created the dormer effect. The flatness all the way to the peak was critical.
The 2nd story floor is dropped down into the old attic roof, 4 feet below the 5-foot-tall windows… From inside, you can walk right up to the front windows inside and it still has a 9 foot ceiling, … you can’t see this…so it deceptively lowers the front profile of the house.
designing privacy walls
While watching FRANKIE & GRACE on Netflix, I saw the privacy wings on Malibu… so I paused the show, and took this photo.
From the neighbors side view, it looks natural, not like a big wall.
This is one of my earlier drawings of the privacy wings on each side.
It was a bit extreme, so I pushed them back to only 6 to 8 feet, as seen below.
It would take a drone, to see the side view…but this became the finished back.
Privacy on all 3 floors. The best part of the house. Sunroom on each floor, and room for a shanty laundry line on a sunny day….and no one can see it… win!
see/draw/build
Drive around town, take photos of houses you like.
Scan thru Houzz, and make notebooks.
No sense reinventing the wheel.
Of course, this does not mean copying someones blueprints, there are whole articles on this issue.
It just means adapting ideas, styles, colors, concepts that you SEE work well.