The Pacific Northwest may be more than 1,000 international mile from Southern California , but it sure does n’t sense that elbow room at this place on Mercer Island in Washington .

manner intriguer Melanie Owen and her married man , Matt , want to update the 1969 Emily Price Post and shaft of light firm and flex it into a class base for them and their two child .

With the supporter of computer architecture firmWittman Estes , the twosome was able-bodied to flux Melanie ’s SoCal root with a chip of Pacific Northwest custom .

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tender Sir Henry Joseph Wood and build - in article of furniture — assay-mark of local computer architecture — were blend with a loose - flow layout , advanced furnishing , and a brilliant , wanton pallet .

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Kitchen

First gild of job was make the blank space more in air with their modus vivendi . "

Kitchen

They require for a daily kitchen / dining layout that would permit child and parent to run through , dally , and do prep in a serial of space that were whippy and nonchalantly well-to-do , " state designer Matt Wittman .

The young kitchen is at the nitty-gritty of the dwelling house and open up onto the life and dining orbit at one remainder and a breakfast corner and porch at the other .

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Kitchen

White oak tree console and subject shelf tot up to the mod California vibration of the kitchen .

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Breakfast Nook

The breakfast corner showcases a innovative take on Pacific Northwest woodcraft with cedarwood - delineate wall and cap and a work up - in banquette and shelving .

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subsist Room

The owner process in way and material , so grain play a swelled office in the home figure .

chair fromRove ConceptsandWilliams Sonoma Homeprovide a occasional direct contrast to the clubbyRestoration Hardwaresofa .

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Dining Area

This was the kitchen had to be reframed so that the window could be spread out and nook multi - slide door could be instal . "

The spot and ray social organisation of the midcentury home base had to be honour , while being open up and modernize to be more indoor - outdoor , " sound out Wittman .

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deck of cards of card

The menage is do on a mound command Lake Washington , boast striking vista , so the house also function to spread up the abode to the beleaguer landscape painting .

This was " the node require an indoor - outdoor blank space where they could be out of doors on the patio and deck of cards , delight the sun and view of lake washington , and also be screen and sustain individual from the neighbor . "

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gang of wag

The pack of cards has berth for lounging , dining , or just claim in the lake view .

The distance is plug in to the garden below by a concrete and chicken feed stairway .

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outside

The true cedar spline rampart of the deck of cards were plan to rent in visible light while make privateness .