Mill Valley Residence / Butler Armsden Architects

Andreas Luco — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000

After moving from New York to California and purchasing a home in Mill Valley, a couple with two children invited Butler Armsden to modify their home for their growing and changing family. Built by a developer, the house lacked personality and the space was used inefficiently.

Bluff Reach / Butler Armsden Architects

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 10 May 2018 13:00:00 +0000

On a jagged cliff overlooking the Pacific, tucked in between tufts of cypress, an architectural gem becomes a family vacation home under the design vision of Lewis Butler and Reba Jones. The home, located in the 1960s planned community of Sea Ranch, preserves the distinguishing elements of its neighboring buildings — vertical wood siding, muted materials, views full of drama — while giving the clients, a San Francisco-based couple in search of a secluded retreat, details all their own. For the architects, as enamored of the curving coast and soothing landscape as their clients, updating the home, designed in 1974 by Ralph Matheson and renovated in 1990 by William Turnbull Jr., proved easier than expected. With its relaxing lushness, the site itself played the role of mediator.

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Mill Valley Residence / Butler Armsden Architects

Bluff Reach / Butler Armsden Architects