Exterior
A white stucco volume wrapped by a deep covered porch, set among Monterey cypress above the ocean
A white stucco house on a cypress-covered bluff above the Pacific. One tall room does most of the talking: kitchen, dining, and living share a double-height volume, a glass-railed stair climbs to an open loft, and a glazed lookout on the roof catches light, treetops, and the coastline above everything else.
Cypress House is built around a single idea: let one tall room do the work of several. Kitchen, dining, and living all sit inside the same double-height volume, lit by tall walls of glass that frame the Pacific through the cypress. An open stair with a glass rail climbs through the middle of that room to a loft above, so the loft never fully separates from the space below it: you can stand at the kitchen counter and see up into the bedroom, and stand in the loft and look straight out over the coastline.
Outside, a deep, flat-roofed porch wraps the ground floor on every side the site allows, carried on square white columns and broad enough for outdoor dining, a grill, loungers facing the water, and a carport tucked under one corner. Raised planters of drought-tolerant coastal planting soften the base. Above the main volume, a small glazed lookout under a metal hip roof rides on top, the one part of the house built purely for the view, catching light down through the stairwell during the day and offering a private perch above the tree canopy.