Houzz Tour: A Sensitive Renovation for a Modernist House (15 photos)

The current residents bought the house in 2011 and approached Mihaly Slocombe to update it while protecting the wood structure and outstanding features. “They loved the house and wanted to preserve its character, but also recognized the need to renovate it to suit their family and lifestyle,” Mihaly says.

The house is typical of Borland’s late residential style, often referred to as romantic rationalism. Borland used post-and-beam construction, wood linings, a 16-by-16-foot grid and loose triangular geometry to create a layout imbued with warmth, serendipity and expression.

Playing on Borland’s ideas about expressed structure and materials, Mihaly and Slocombe designed a wood screen around the top of the spiral stairs, pictured here, which glows like a lantern at night and casts shadows across the floor.

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