RADFORD RESIDENCE

North Hollywood, CA: 2000

A 450 sf addition to an existing one-story ranch house which provides a new kitchen / gym workout area. The new roof pitches up to the outside, providing for a clerestory that allows dappled light across the sloping ceiling from the trees outside. Inside, the project uses a palette of 3 types of wood: maple, cherry and walnut, and intermixed them in the cabinetwork. The center island countertop is black “labtop” with a porcelain farm sink inset. The kitchen sink and cooking counter is topped in stainless steel, with a cork floor. The remainder of the floor area is of a stained red oak tongue-and-groove. Upper cabinet doors use a fluted, obscure glass. Sliding, single-lite double pocket doors on two adjacent sides of the kitchen separate the latter from both the dining and living areas. The kitchen is accessed off of a broken concrete patio made of recycled fragments of the former parking area. A new painted steel fence/gate separates this from the driveway, and matches the height and color of the brick base of the existing house.

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