Exterior
Board-and-batten siding and a standing-seam metal roof, a glass cupola rising over the kitchen at the center of the plan
The plan is organized around one idea: a kitchen at the literal center of the house, with living, dining, office, and entry all radiating outward from it. Outside, board-and-batten siding sits under a standing-seam metal roof, crowned by a glass cupola that lights the kitchen below.
Central Kitchen starts from a single organizing idea and doesn't complicate it: the kitchen sits at the physical middle of the plan, and every other room — living area, dining, a built-in home office tucked between two bookshelf columns, even the entry gallery — opens back toward it rather than being strung along a hallway. A vaulted, post-and-beam ceiling with exposed steel tension rods runs over the kitchen and spills into the surrounding rooms, so the structure itself reinforces the sense that this is one continuous space organized around a center, not a kitchen with rooms attached to it.
The exterior tells the same story from outside. Board-and-batten siding and a standing-seam metal roof keep the massing simple and quiet among the pines, and a glass cupola rises at the very center of the roof, directly over the kitchen, so the hub of the plan is marked on the skyline and filled with daylight from above.
Inside, the decorative language leans into a collected, well-traveled feel: a Japanese woodblock print and an antique red lacquer console greet guests in the entry hall, a pair of red Chinese prosperity banners frame the passage further in, a see-through linear fireplace and wine racks anchor the dining side of the kitchen, and a wall of folding glass doors opens the living room onto a covered terrace among the pines. The primary suite sits apart from all of it, with its own quieter fireplace and television wall built into cabinetry rather than left freestanding.