In order to better accommodate their growing family, renowned biodynamic vintner Robert Sinskey (http://www.robertsinskey.com/) and his wife, chef and author Maria Helm Sinskey, asked us to remodel and expand a house we designed for them six years earlier.
The expansion plans called for adding a new formal entryway and a cozy new fireplace room, enclosing the front porch, increasing the size of the kitchen, expanding the master bedroom and adding a covered porch to the west of the house adjacent to the new swimming pool. The house was also made more ecologically supportive with the use of cotton batt insulation, certified wood, non toxic paints and finishes, solar hot water and solar electricity.
The architecture continued to work with the theme of a retrofitted barn on a working farm which was developed in the first design. The new house maintains the strong original roofline and was added to similar to how barns typically grow over years of use by adding smaller shed roofed areas attached to the main original barn. The result is a delightful mixture of simple shed roofs which create agricultural building forms of the kind ones still sees in the Carneros region at the base of Napa and Sonoma counties.
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