As you move around in this house your eye moves to adjacent rooms and spaces, drawn there because the ceiling goes up or because space somehow turns a corner.
The owners are weather hounds, weather watchers-they love to catch the moods of storms and wind and be able to see the wind bending the trees. Their house was designed accordingly.
The house form is simple: essen- tially a vertical box with three living levels. The living room is only 16 by 22 feet, but rises the height of two stories with a great bay window that seems to extend the room out into the trees. A plastic skylight, set above the bay, brings in additional daylight from above. The living room ceiling of ex- posed joists is carried back over the adult's bedroom loft. A deck pushes out from the house to become an out- door extension of indoor floors.
The house was an award winner in an A.I.A.-Sunset Western Home Awards program.
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source: Sunset Books - Sunset Homes 1967
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