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Inspiration for a medium sized modern wood straight staircase in New York with wood risers.
Inspiration for a medium sized modern wood straight staircase in New York with wood risers.
Stalburg DesignA staircase is so much more than circulation. It provides a space to create dramatic interior architecture, a place for design to carve into, where a staircase can either embrace or stand as its own design piece. In this custom stair and railing design, completed in January 2020, we wanted a grand statement for the two-story foyer. With walls wrapped in a modern wainscoting, the staircase is a sleek combination of black metal balusters and honey stained millwork. Open stair treads of white oak were custom stained to match the engineered wide plank floors. Each riser painted white, to offset and highlight the ascent to a U-shaped loft and hallway above. The black interior doors and white painted walls enhance the subtle color of the wood, and the oversized black metal chandelier lends a classic and modern feel.
The staircase is created with several “zones”: from the second story, a panoramic view is offered from the second story loft and surrounding hallway. The full height of the home is revealed and the detail of our black metal pendant can be admired in close view. At the main level, our staircase lands facing the dining room entrance, and is flanked by wall sconces set within the wainscoting. It is a formal landing spot with views to the front entrance as well as the backyard patio and pool. And in the lower level, the open stair system creates continuity and elegance as the staircase ends at the custom home bar and wine storage. The view back up from the bottom reveals a comprehensive open system to delight its family, both young and old!
Mur-Sol Builders IncDesign ideas for a medium sized modern wood u-shaped glass railing staircase in Orange County with wood risers.
Root ArchitectureThis is an example of a large modern wood u-shaped metal railing staircase in Austin with wood risers.
Jeannette ArchitectsJeff Jeannette / Jeannette Architects
This is an example of a medium sized modern wood straight staircase in Orange County with open risers.
This is an example of a medium sized modern wood straight staircase in Orange County with open risers.
ODS ArchitectureA 6,000 square foot 2-story new home complex in Milpitas was designed to facilitate the owners’ large business parties and gatherings, to have rooms for the kids to come back to upstairs, and a ground floor master suite with a huge walk-in closet. Several separate structures make up the dwelling: The main house, 3-car garage with carport for overflow parking, and a separate entertainment and recreation building separated by a courtyard from the main house.
The business activities include gatherings in the hundreds of people, so parking was maximized and guests can flow in through a separate gate to party in the courtyard and recreation building. Inside this structure is a wet bar, billiard room, workout gym and home theater. The main house ground floor has formal and informal living rooms, open kitchen and master suite with views and expansive windows in every direction. The house is sited on the crestline of a hill with views of the San Francisco Bay and private golf course below. The indoor-outdoor aspect of the house is further accentuated with outside living and dining areas.
High ceilings and expansive glass walls dissolve the sense of enclosure taking advantage of the site’s openness and privacy. The owner’s suite is downstairs in anticipation of aging-in-place, and upstairs there are three bedrooms and four bathrooms plus a sitting area lounge and casual TV loft area.
The house sits on one acre at the top of a low hill range overlooking Milpitas. The city was very cognizant of the importance of keeping a low profile at this crestline and required extensive story poles and photo evidence of the proper height and siting so as not to be seen from certain selected vantage points.
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: JCD Builders Inc.
LANDSCAPE DESIGN: Morf Chang Landscape Architecture / ODS Architecture
PHOTOGRAPHS: Paul Dyer Photography
Klopf ArchitectureConceived of as a C-shaped house with a small private courtyard and a large private rear yard, this new house maximizes the floor area available to build on this smaller Palo Alto lot. An Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) integrated into the main structure gave a floor area bonus. For now, it will be used for visiting relatives. One challenge of this design was keeping a low profile and proportional design while still meeting the FEMA flood plain requirement that the finished floor start about 3′ above grade.
The new house has four bedrooms (including the attached ADU), a separate family room with a window seat, a music room, a prayer room, and a large living space that opens to the private small courtyard as well as a large covered patio at the rear. Mature trees around the perimeter of the lot were preserved, and new ones planted, for private indoor-outdoor living.
C-shaped house, New home, ADU, Palo Alto, CA, courtyard,
KA Project Team: John Klopf, AIA, Angela Todorova, Lucie Danigo
Structural Engineer: ZFA Structural Engineers
Landscape Architect: Outer Space Landscape Architects
Contractor: Coast to Coast Development
Photography: ©2023 Mariko Reed
Year Completed: 2022
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Agnieszka Jakubowicz PHOTOGRAPHYArchitecture+Design: Studio 3 Design / Styling: Allegra Hsiao / Photography: Agnieszka Jakubowicz
This is an example of a modern staircase in San Francisco.
This is an example of a modern staircase in San Francisco.
George Sexton AssociatesGeorge Sexton Associates provided lighting design
and focusing services to the interior spaces and
roof terrace of this NYC residence. A recessed slot
with tracks provided a flexible lighting solution
for showcasing the owner’s vast art collection.
GSA collaborated with Glasbau Hahn to design
and coordinate four museum grade vitrines.
Wallgrazing luminaires where strategically located
and integrated into the architecture to provide
lighting for a series of detailed reliefs. Millwork was
fitted with integrated lighting that is activated with
door movement. Integrated lighting was also used
under shelves and in closets.
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