East-End Industrial/Modern Live-Work
My clients were'early pioneers in a low-density 1940's working class neighborhood that quickly transitioned to its current status as an up-scale higher-density enclave of [cool] townhouses close to downtown.
The resulting, much-published, AIA state and local award-winning design assumes an industrial flavor in direct response to the materials and ambience the clients wanted: a light-filled, open-plan living space with exposed wood structure, pine 2x sub-flooring, exposed ductwork and conduit, metal and stucco exterior siding, finished concrete floors on floor 1 and metal sash windows all around.
To this day, the clients describe their belovedly unique house as the well-designed and well-cared-for caretaker of their lives
Paul Hester, Photographer
Rebar and wood handrails