Dorman Associates, Architecture + Interiors
Living room with whitewashed rafters and skylights opening through a wide sliding wall to a wood-ceilinged covered deck.

Cedar Hill House

Residential Architecture

Project Type
Residential
Location
Mill Valley, CA
Project Size
2,815 S.F.

Project Overview

A remodel of an existing house on a steep, wooded hillside in Mill Valley. The brief was to keep the house and make it live larger. The former garage becomes conditioned space, and the living room opens through a wide sliding wall of glass onto a covered outdoor room with a wood ceiling, so for most of the year the two rooms are one. A new roof deck with cable rail sits above the kitchen and dining area, up in the oaks. Inside, the existing rafters are exposed and whitewashed, skylights bring light down through the roof, and wood floors and oak-toned casework run through. Cedar siding, a standing-seam metal roof, dark-framed glass doors and windows, and a freestanding stove complete the palette.

Photography & Film by Context Visuals

Dusk view from the garden: cedar-sided gabled wing, lit covered outdoor room, and cable-railed roof deck in the oaks.
Covered outdoor room with wood ceiling and posts, deck seating, and a wide opening back into the kitchen.
Kitchen with oak-toned island and range under whitewashed rafters and skylights, open to a covered outdoor room.
Living room and open kitchen under whitewashed rafters and collar ties, wood floors, black pendant over the island.
Covered outdoor room at dusk with wood ceiling, French doors to a bedroom, and the cable-railed roof deck above.
Bedroom with reclaimed-timber bed platform and French doors opening to a cable-railed deck in the oaks.
Lower-level office with built-in desk, bookshelves, wood-railed stair, and a glass door to a small patio.
Evening view from the deck into the lit living room, framed by the covered outdoor room's wood posts and ceiling.
Living room seating below a large painting, painted board ceiling, and a wood stair with horizontal-slat rail beyond.
Family room with black-painted brick fireplace, white sectional, and low dark-framed windows onto the tree canopy.
Bathroom with white stacked ceramic tile, floating wood-toned vanity, glass shower, and a window to the treetops.
Dusk aerial of a cedar-clad Mill Valley hillside house with standing-seam metal roofs, roof deck, and covered outdoor room.

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