Gone dark, cluttered with pre-war housing areas - the collections of small rooms with different functions - and came open living room, with access to light and outside. Architects around the Western world delighted in designing houses that were radically different from those of a generation ago. So how can you respectfully bring one of these classics in the contemporary world?
Rick & Cindy Black Architects
Despite the fact they are now old 65, midcentury houses have stood the test of time and are, in many ways, perfectly adapted to modern life. Their open spaces and lifestyles are remarkably well given the current circumstances - certainly compared to homes built in the latter part of the 19th or early 20th century
Rick & Cindy Black Architects
But sometimes - as with this home in Portland, Oregon in the United States before renovation - they show their age. Not all of them were architects, and many buildings or homes developer came with quirks and oddities that have only grown more boring over the years.
On other levels, they need updating - technology has come a long way, a bathroom are now the norm in many family homes, and families just seem to have need more space these days.
This raises the question: how do you approach such a renovation? The short answer is: walk softly
On other levels, they need updating - technology has come a long way, a bathroom are now the norm in many family homes, and families just seem to have need more space these days.
This raises the question: how do you approach such a renovation? The short answer is: walk softly
Koch Architects, Inc. Joanne Koch
make friends with wood
It's too tempting to paint everything white and replace the lining wood with modern and elegant materials. For an example of how horribly this can go, look - with your hands over your eyes - the first season of Transparent , in which Tammy renovated iconic Pacific Palisades home of Maura Pfefferman with a gaudy combination unsympathetic glass, white and pastels. (Fortunately, this did not really happen in real house.)
It's too tempting to paint everything white and replace the lining wood with modern and elegant materials. For an example of how horribly this can go, look - with your hands over your eyes - the first season of Transparent , in which Tammy renovated iconic Pacific Palisades home of Maura Pfefferman with a gaudy combination unsympathetic glass, white and pastels. (Fortunately, this did not really happen in real house.)
Koch Architects, Inc. . Joanne Koch
Midcentury design - well, good midcentury design - was all about exposing the details so you can see them, and leaving the beams often intended to show and bringing wood panels inside the walls. But very often - in contrast with wooden interiors of previous decades -. Which was offset by flashes of color and large expanses of glass
You can see this beautifully done in the careful renovation and extension of this midcentury home in Berkeley, California: wood, primary colors modern conservative insertions like the cedar wall outside on the terrace, come together harmoniously and respectfully
You can see this beautifully done in the careful renovation and extension of this midcentury home in Berkeley, California: wood, primary colors modern conservative insertions like the cedar wall outside on the terrace, come together harmoniously and respectfully
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See?
Koch Architects, Inc. Joanne Koch
in the kitchen, Koch Architects has added stainless steel cabinets, which goes perfectly with all the wood and skylights to draw in natural light. The walls, floor and beams are all made of natural wood. Spectacular.
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Johnson Berman
Block colors - beige and store
for a masterclass on how to use color, can I direct you to the (fictional) offices Mad Men Sterling Cooper & Partners' s? white, white walls floors; wood panels and blocks of colors - red, orange, yellow, aquamarine, navy blue. Strong, pure colors - no muddiness or retirement for them. Here's how you use color in a house of midcentury
Very often, the owners of midcentury houses think how to make their home in the 21st century is to paint everything in shades of beige and taupe :. All this does is make the space feel small and bland rather than rich and expressive. Do not do it!
for a masterclass on how to use color, can I direct you to the (fictional) offices Mad Men Sterling Cooper & Partners' s? white, white walls floors; wood panels and blocks of colors - red, orange, yellow, aquamarine, navy blue. Strong, pure colors - no muddiness or retirement for them. Here's how you use color in a house of midcentury
Very often, the owners of midcentury houses think how to make their home in the 21st century is to paint everything in shades of beige and taupe :. All this does is make the space feel small and bland rather than rich and expressive. Do not do it!
Johnson Berman
instead of this painting large surfaces in one color - sliding doors for storage, for example - as with this beautiful renovation of a house in Los Angeles by midcentury Johnson Berman. Look at this picture carefully: there are actually four colors on the doors - reddy orange with red and yellow with an orange-yellow-and these are repeated throughout the piece
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make it look as if it has always been there
in recent history Houzz, I wrote about how if you are remodeling, you may want to think about adding in a different style of the original. To illustrate this, I took examples where architects have added beautiful contemporary additions to small, often prosaic, houses of brick or weatherboard. I maintain that (our architect provides exactly this for our own small 1950s cottage at the moment), but if you live in something with long low lines and a sense of flow and crafts, I hesitate.
in recent history Houzz, I wrote about how if you are remodeling, you may want to think about adding in a different style of the original. To illustrate this, I took examples where architects have added beautiful contemporary additions to small, often prosaic, houses of brick or weatherboard. I maintain that (our architect provides exactly this for our own small 1950s cottage at the moment), but if you live in something with long low lines and a sense of flow and crafts, I hesitate.
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The owners of this beautiful house in Pasadena, Los Angeles, saved a house from the 1950s, long neglected, gutted and then began to make a beautiful - and quite friendly - renovation designed by Bilden. As part of that, they added a second floor houses a master bedroom and bathroom, which followed the language, scale and original details - until the wooden ceiling which operated under the eaves of the upper floor. It takes great skill to do a renovation like this work.
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redesign added some modern touches: all windows are double glazed using low-e glass, and there are electronic systems throughout the area and its sophisticated. Perhaps because there was so much work done, the place feels harmonious - as if it was just a midcentury house well maintained. (It must be said that the chosen owners Ligne Roset Togo sofas.)
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Webber + Studio, Architects
Now break all the rules
I come and go from this house, an addition to a small midcentury soft property in the suburbs of Austin, Texas, in which the architect Webber + studio added a tower (yes, there is a tower) behind the house. Surprisingly, and in its way it was a kind of crazy 1960s A-frame kind of language in it. He is intelligent and striking and beautifully done, the two structures united by a common language of wood, concrete and steel.
I come and go from this house, an addition to a small midcentury soft property in the suburbs of Austin, Texas, in which the architect Webber + studio added a tower (yes, there is a tower) behind the house. Surprisingly, and in its way it was a kind of crazy 1960s A-frame kind of language in it. He is intelligent and striking and beautifully done, the two structures united by a common language of wood, concrete and steel.
Webber + Studio, Architects
but is it the right thing to do?
Flavin Architects
introduce new materials - carefully
the wonderful thing about the midcentury design is the sense of the excitement with which the architects of these houses have approached new material. Much of it had to do with the genius suddenly, large expanses of glass appeared, as did cantilevers and presentations, uncluttered back structures. This enabled architects to blur the boundaries between inside and outside, and it allowed them to make houses sitting in the landscape in a totally different way.
In addition, their kitchens and bathrooms included the latest gadgets. To put it bluntly, they are not afraid of new technologies rather, they built whole houses around it
the wonderful thing about the midcentury design is the sense of the excitement with which the architects of these houses have approached new material. Much of it had to do with the genius suddenly, large expanses of glass appeared, as did cantilevers and presentations, uncluttered back structures. This enabled architects to blur the boundaries between inside and outside, and it allowed them to make houses sitting in the landscape in a totally different way.
In addition, their kitchens and bathrooms included the latest gadgets. To put it bluntly, they are not afraid of new technologies rather, they built whole houses around it
Flavin architects
It is safe to assume that the midcentury architects were beside themselves with enthusiasm the advances in technology and engineering in the last half-century or more. This is the attitude with Flavin Architects took this home near Boston, USA, when they undertook a major renovation. They respected the original design, but introduces some nice touches.
Flavin Architects
This is better seen in the kitchen, where architects "pumped" in 1950 on the same idea of "floating kitchen", where the food was sitting in the middle of the house, away from the walls. Cabinetry floated, apparently unsupported. He was so radical; it is always a good idea now.
In this version, the bench is Corian, while the cabinet has extensive - LED lighting - and practical. He is sharp in its construction, but polite about his investment - and follows the straights. It does not look like a thoughtless intrusion of the 21st century, as so many modern kitchens are in homes in 1950.
In this version, the bench is Corian, while the cabinet has extensive - LED lighting - and practical. He is sharp in its construction, but polite about his investment - and follows the straights. It does not look like a thoughtless intrusion of the 21st century, as so many modern kitchens are in homes in 1950.
Kimberley Bryan
respect the idiosyncrasies
Midcentury houses sometimes have a certain strangeness to them - the split levels are common, and sometimes the food is not front and center of the living area, how it could be in a house modern. Sometimes you simply observe this - that the owners of this house in Washington state in the United States
Midcentury houses sometimes have a certain strangeness to them - the split levels are common, and sometimes the food is not front and center of the living area, how it could be in a house modern. Sometimes you simply observe this - that the owners of this house in Washington state in the United States
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After the buy on impulse, they renovated based on original drawings -. the original plans for the house still exist
Studio AR + D Architects
Keep the plain exterior and strong
in other words, do not be tempted to add a garden cottage outside your midcentury marvel. Keep clean and tidy shapes with circular shapes and large slabs. Palms are here a brilliant touch.
in other words, do not be tempted to add a garden cottage outside your midcentury marvel. Keep clean and tidy shapes with circular shapes and large slabs. Palms are here a brilliant touch.
Lilium Designs
Again the architects of this house used large-scale concrete slabs to set the court, located in front of the main living area.
Porebski Architects
If it is not broke, do not fix it
Think very, very hard before changing anything in a house midcentury. Which is dated today can become iconic - even historic - in the coming decades, and some of these houses were beautiful exercise in design that would stand firmly if they were built today. Their modification is unnecessarily something a conception of crime.
Think very, very hard before changing anything in a house midcentury. Which is dated today can become iconic - even historic - in the coming decades, and some of these houses were beautiful exercise in design that would stand firmly if they were built today. Their modification is unnecessarily something a conception of crime.
Porebski Architects
an example Castlecrag House is designed by Architects in 1972. Porebski flat roofs and cantilevers define the house, overlooking Sydney Harbour in Australia, near a national park. The trees have grown and the rock walls are covered with moss, but little has changed in this classic house, which is still in the hands of its original owners.
Porebski Architects
The house works as well today as it did when it was built: the collection of classic furniture and owners slots auctioned beautifully in the high-ceilinged space. The deep, eaves corbel, meanwhile, to keep the heat of a hot summer away, despite the glass from floor to ceiling. A masterpiece.
Strachan Group Architects
Give it a new identity
If you update a midcentury home, make sure it is done in a way that feels transparent - and kind to the original structure. The owners of this house 1960 in Auckland, New Zealand, lived here for five years before applying Strachan Group Architects rework the place, which was cold and dark, and lacking decent access to the outdoors. It was a midcentury standard spec house that has not been particularly well thought out.
The key to the design was the idea of a "blade" that runs through the house. Made from plastered bricks, it connects the two levels of the house and covers the original brick.
If you update a midcentury home, make sure it is done in a way that feels transparent - and kind to the original structure. The owners of this house 1960 in Auckland, New Zealand, lived here for five years before applying Strachan Group Architects rework the place, which was cold and dark, and lacking decent access to the outdoors. It was a midcentury standard spec house that has not been particularly well thought out.
The key to the design was the idea of a "blade" that runs through the house. Made from plastered bricks, it connects the two levels of the house and covers the original brick.
Strachan Group Architects
has the floor, renovation of all modern heart, but with sympathetic materials, including plywood. The cuisine is under the ceiling and exposed beams. In many ways, the redesign made the house what it would have been in the first place -. After all, not every house midcentury is a classic design
Strachan Group Architects
The house now functions entirely differently. It is open and airy, with outdoor spaces and access to the outside environment. The screen of the wood on the balcony and bridges are a genius move - the projection gives the house the gravitas lacked. In many ways, the architects removed a small standard spec home to a whole new level.
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