Magnolia
This project was a collaborative study of possibilities, focused on creating a light-filled enclosure and retreat to buffer noise from Government Way while preserving the character of the existing home and surrounding context. After starting with building and zoning code research to understand what was feasible, we explored four options — each balancing cost, craft, and scale.
Design Options
The first option enclosed the existing entry to establish a formal, ventilated threshold and added a simple deck for potted plants and garden views. The second option reintroduced the spirit of the original front porch, opening up more space for seating and making a new connection into the living room. The third option imagined a greenhouse-style porch that blurred indoors and out with generous glazing, and the fourth option added a flexible, operable louvered wall to expand or contract the footprint as needed.
Deliverables included dimensioned plans, elevations, exterior perspective views, and a rendering — the kind of tools we provide in our Creative Design Study service to help clients take a closer look at their ideas.
Curated Playlist
This playlist unfolds like a day spent on a well-loved porch. The early tracks feel like morning light through old windows — gentle, hopeful, and a little sleepy. Midway, the rhythm opens up like a summer afternoon with friends, breezy and warm, before easing into slower, richer melodies as evening falls and the seasons shift toward cooler months. Each song carries that same handmade, familiar spirit, and together they tell a story that’s always changing but always at home — a space revived with sound, light, and memory.