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  • Design: Doreve Nicholaeff, Architect

    Breakfast Rooms

    With strong connections to the kitchen and usually offering ample daylight, breakfast rooms are used for much more than sitting down to the morning meal.

     
  • Shadowboxx, San Juan Islands, Wash.

    Motor-driven awning shutters provide elegant protection for an island home.

     
  • Chuckanut Ridge, Bow, Wash.

    A red-lacquer stair-cum-storage cabinet draws inspiration from Asian traditions.

     
  • Studio Sitges, Sitges, Spain

    A door within a door swings for everyday access and pivots for wide-open flow.

     
  • Award-Winning Details

    McInturff Architects has won multiple Custom Home Design Awards for architectural details over the years. Firm founder and principal architect Mark McInturff talks about how his design philosophy leads to these special moments that frequently garner accolades from our awards juries.

     
  • A 4-inch-thick wood entry door welcomes visitors to the pavilion, used as a tea house, meditation room, and stage for family musical performances.

    Tea House, Bethesda, Md.

    This elegant pavilion by David Jameson Architect takes the tea ceremony to a new level.

     
  • Stair runs fabricated from folded sheets of perforated steel filter light from a skylight above.

    Steel Stair, Seattle

    A stair of perforated steel and solid steel plate brightens a once-dark stairwell.

     
  • Anchored at floor and ceiling, the living room shelving unit supports a gas fireplace and flat-screen TV housed in the same aluminum surround.

    Kit of Parts, Washington, D.C.

    Simple materials combine to form a flexible and elegant storage solution that leaves the existing interior architecture intact.

     
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    Claremont House, Chicago

    A well-designed stair is seldom merely a means of moving from one floor to another.

     
  • The cabins exterior skin will be allowed to weather naturally. Its back wall is made of rammed earth.

    Salt Spring Island Cabin, Salt Spring, British Columbia

    In Tom Kundig's hands, a weekend cabin isn't just a cabin, but a metaphor for something else.

     
 
 
 
 
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