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The bedroom. All interior millwork is oak with translucent acrylic inserts.
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Elliott Kaufman
2011 CHDA
Custom Home of the Year
House in an Olive Grove, Geyserville, Calif.
Cooper Joseph Studio, New York City
Architect Wendy Joseph of Cooper Joseph Studio captured views and maintained privacy in this cozy bedroom with fixed horizontal glazing that suits the gaze from the adjacent built-in bed. The far wall is all glass and connects to a small balcony jutting out over the olive groves on the property. Those two carefully curated windows offer close-up and distant views of the surrounding countryside.
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2010 CHDA
Private Residence, Sebastopol, Calif.
Merit Award: Custom Home / Less Than 3,000 Square Feet
Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, San Francisco
The master bedroom opens onto a deck connecting it to a stand of redwood trees.
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David Wakely Photography
2010 CHDA
Private Residence, Sebastopol, Calif.
Merit Award: Custom Home / Less Than 3,000 Square Feet
Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, San Francisco
By pulling the decks to the sides of the house, architects Mary Griffin and Eric Haesloop were able to free up the long, glass rear façade—including one wall of the bedroom—to take in mountain vistas.
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Brian Vanden Brink
2010 CHDA
Sugar Mill, Chilmark, Mass.
Merit Award: Custom Home / 3,000 to 5,000 Square Feet
This corner master suite sits on its hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and coastal ponds with banks of divided light windows opening it up to far-off vistas and sea breezes.
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Etched glass "storefronts" allow the three bedrooms to borrow light from the corridor.
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Alan Karchmer / Sandra Benedum
Custom Home, September-October 2010
Bridge Player
Schwartz/Silver Architects, Boston
The glass and steel "bridge" corridor in this western Massachusetts summer home descends three sets of folded-steel stairs that pass this bedroom, and provide a mountain-and-valley panorama that stretches into New York state. Etched glass "storefronts" allow the bedroom to borrow light from the corridor without compromising the sense of security.
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Bruce Damonte
2009 CHDA
Laidley Street Residence, San Francisco
Grand Award: Custom Home / 3,000 to 5,000 Square Feet
Zack / de Vito Architecture, San Francisco
The home belongs to Lise de Vito and Jim Zack, who run an architecture firm as well as a construction company. A translucent window wall provides postcard views of San Francisco that serve as the master bedroom's main decoration and a source of natural light.
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Michael Perlmutter
residential architect, July 2008
K + B Studio: Rock Harbor
Helin & Co Architects, Helsinki, Finland
The design goals for the master suite consisted of producing a free-flowing bedroom with floor-to-ceiling glass overlooking the Baltic Sea. A built-in headboard cum dresser anchors the bed in the airy albeit compact room while the curved glass wall acts as the bed's footboard. The site's dramatic views are reflected in twin mirrors above the sinks just behind the bed, creating the illusion of additional space.
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Richard Barnes
2008 RADA
Tehama Grasshopper, San Francisco
Renovation / Grand
Fougeron Architecture, San Francisco
Faced with a square concrete warehouse and only one wall of north-facing windows, architect Anne Fougeron, worked magic by adding a grasshopper-like penthouse bedroom that alights on the building's surface, opening the entire loft to the sun.
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Richard Barnes
2008 RADA
Tehama Grasshopper, San Francisco
Renovation / Grand
Fougeron Architecture, San Francisco
The diaphanous master suite sits at the top of the stairs and features a bent window that scoops light deep into the living areas below and affords the bedroom's occupants rooftop scenes of the surrounding city.
