
Retaining some element of the lose was expected, but vertical options impressed the structure companions to approach it like sculpture. “Roger wanted some eye sweet from the road,” Keith claims. “Something to say ‘hello’ and ‘peekaboo’ from guiding the other residence and draw in or entice folks.” At the time, Keith was searching at Herb Greene’s Prairie Hen Dwelling in Oklahoma. “It was like, how can you set this funky hat on an ADU?” Corie suggests. The iterative process landed them on a periscope skylight that soars 18 feet, waving to passersby and glowing like a lantern following dark.
Keith and Corie challenged their consumers to maintain the property tiny—it’s humble 350 sq. feet—instead of maxing it out to the 800 ft permitted by town code. “Some folks feel the price of a undertaking is in its dimensions, but to us, good quality of house is an equally precious metric,” Keith states. And it was one particular that enabled them to devote additional funds to daring style and design conclusions, furthermore build 400 sq. toes of considerate outdoor dwelling room, capitalizing on L.A.’s fantastic weather. “The size, of class, finished up remaining excellent,” Roger claims, “and absolutely everyone who stays at the house is just madly in adore with it and does not want to leave—literally. The style, with the soaring peak of the steel body of the building, the skewed skylight, and the significant doorways and windows make the space truly open, airy, and snug, and even feeling variety of significant.”