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The garage, studio and Haven (outdoor porch retreat) are clustered to complete the courtyard, with accent colours providing identity and visual relief.
View from rear with Haven and Studio to right
An abundance of natural light creates ideal work conditions for the client, while the one-inch-thick insulated glass helps mitigate solar heat gain.
Two white pocket-doors flanking the stainless steel work station conceal storage (to the right) and a hallway (to the left) that connects to the existing home and a bathroom.
In contrast, the Big Space has untouched and uninsulated walls. It is heated with an existing gas garage ceiling heater that is able to temporarily heat up quickly and as needed. The big garage/workshop also serves as a climatic buffer space to the Little Space.
The sunroom—or “museum of natural history,” as the couple call it—showcases an array of objects, including a massive chair carved from a single tree trunk and a terra cotta elephant used as a side table.
The house also has a finished basement, which includes a den and laundry room.
A view from the cedar-clad sauna.
Five windows fill the playful loft space with natural light.
The meditation room overlooks a nearby hilltop in one of the clients' favorite views, framed by floor-to-ceiling glass windows.
"The interior is primarily white to move daylight evenly throughout the primary spaces," Moore explains.
Marco V. Morelli says his Studio Shed is the perfect refuge. “It’s changed my life for the better,” he says. “I’ve gotten so much more work done, and I think my marital relations are much better because I have a place of my own.”
Tanya, Chris, Jackson, and Zeke spend much of their day outside.
The mini music studio.
A tranquil nook allows the homeowner to practice yoga.
Berlin Jespersen, 8, daintily rocks the family drum kit, which Brent is also learning to play.
The sauna door handle is a simple piece of driftwood. “One principle rule I followed,” says Kiehl, “was: Don’t build on outdoor space if it can work as outdoor living space. Norwegian summers are short. We want to be outdoors as much as possible.”
Work It “We wanted to open up the back of the house, but there’s nothing to look at,” says Dana. “So we decided to put something in our yard as a focal point, to create our own view.” The architects came up with a glass-walled studio, which Dana uses as her home office. The architects mounted a steel I-beam that spans the yard, with holes drilled at eight-inch intervals for maximum flexibility of use. Right now it’s used for Ikea play equipment, but later they plan to hang a hammock and a movie screen. ikea.com
The walls of the cinema room/guest bedroom are covered with Seasons Autumn Cloud Forest. Because it’s a cinema room, Zeng and her husband knew they wanted a dark colored wallpaper to help minimize the light reflection from the projector. "We immediately thought of our Cloud Forest design. Full of drama, the surreal composition of plants floating between the clouds seemed like the perfect fit for a cinema room," she says.
Davor (with his wife, Abbe, and son, August) designed the main living and dining pavilion as a double-height space to increase its perceived volume, and added high cubbies for extra storage.
The Shudio and patio with privacy trellis.
Phillips designed Judith a stark white, glass-fronted art studio.
Working with his colleagues at Austin Maynard Architects, architect Andrew Maynard added a 184-square-foot, sun-saturated greenhouse extension to his existing 364-square-foot home, and the new space serves as an office for him and his team.
Designed by Stockholm firm Waldemarson Berglund Arkitekter, this prefab artist studio called Ateljé 25 is shaped like a Monopoly house, serves as an artist’s studio and has simple plywood interiors and massive skylights.
The detached space can easily be used as an artists studio or a home office.
The garden's former wartime bunker has been connected to the property and transformed into a cozy, wood-clad media room.
The yoga studio can also be converted into guesthouse.
The artist studio overlooks the green roof on the yoga studio.
Decorative artist Willem Racké worked with Susan Chastain to create this vibrant tangerine lounge. The two main walls of the small room were painted to give the illusion of looking into infinity. A high-gloss, orange lacquer covers the ceiling.
The doors are insulated panels that can be left opened or closed depending on the use of the space.
The office space sits behind a brass-framed glass window, which overlooks the studio. The owners wanted to leave the original stone wall as a relic of the home’s history.
The minimalist interiors provide a distraction-free workspace for visiting artists.
Inside, wall space is prioritized, with concealed plywood blocking to support hanging work.
A dual work-live studio in Rhode Island.
The studio is also complete with a kitchen and a sleeping loft so that it can serve as self-sufficient guest quarters.
A workspace in the studio.
The Music Pavilion is filled with a soft, uniform white light diffused by the canvas roof overhead. Deep red hues echo the warmth of the desert.
All of the joinery is crafted from plywood offcuts, including the two staircases. Handrails are made from offcuts of blue rope, leftovers from Invisible Studio's Studio in the Woods program. Both gable ends, "glazed" with high-performance interlocking polycarbonate, afford lots of light.
A smaller, rectangular building between the two blocks that's equipped for surfing-related activities.
The bunkhouse annex contains a workshop, kitchen and wine cellar.
The mirrored surface of the shed reflects delightfully distorted images of the natural surroundings.
An upstairs yoga practice space.
With a sleeping area that is six feet long and four feet wide, this cozy teardrop can comfortably fit a couple, along with a small child.
Close up of the interlocking broom heads
Broom heads were locally sourced for the project
The micro-office was built to replace a former garden shed
The hidden entrance slides open.
The office is a 13-foot walk away from the home office
The communal reception building.
This beautiful Modern-Shed home office overlooks a gorgeous vineyard in Eastern Washington.
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