Natural Order: A New Home by Buzz Yudell FAIA & Tina Beebe, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects
Design by Buzz Yudell FAIA & Tina Beebe, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects
Builder: Oliver Garrett
Builder: Oliver Garrett
Comfort. A word that is overused. Even trivialized. A state that, in a deep sense, is challenging to realize. Especially when it comes to how you live in your home.
What are the characteristics of a true sense of comfort? Consider the Rustic Canyon home of Architect Buzz Yudell and Artist and Designer Tina Beebe. Call it a comfort case study.
What are the characteristics of a true sense of comfort? Consider the Rustic Canyon home of Architect Buzz Yudell and Artist and Designer Tina Beebe. Call it a comfort case study.
The drive behind the design was to create a space that was nurturing. In this case, the designers were the clients,
shining a bright light on the lived environment AND how they were going to experience it.
Henrybuilt provided a consistent thread to the functional living areas. Beebe and Yudell were able to leverage Henrybuilt’s solutions and customize them to navigate what went where in the home, the proportional relationships of various forms, and the way they moved through interactive spaces.
Henrybuilt provided a consistent thread to the functional living areas. Beebe and Yudell were able to leverage Henrybuilt’s solutions and customize them to navigate what went where in the home, the proportional relationships of various forms, and the way they moved through interactive spaces.
At the house’s core is its fundamental connection to nature, the surrounding landscape, and the neighborhood.
Beebe and Yudell’s design gives each room (and its lucky visitors) three to four exposures. No easy feat while still creating a building with coherence.
This allows for natural ventilation (California breezes!) and framed views to the surrounding landscape.
Beebe and Yudell’s design gives each room (and its lucky visitors) three to four exposures. No easy feat while still creating a building with coherence.
This allows for natural ventilation (California breezes!) and framed views to the surrounding landscape.
The views are not limited to the public spaces. They can also be found within the private nooks like that tucked in the
corner of Yudell’s office.
The materials of the natural landscape are replicated inside: stone, clay, natural textiles, and wood that gives a nod
to the grand dame of the property, a 75-year-old English oak in the courtyard. Henrybuilt’s white oak serves as a unifying material
element throughout. Its quality and craft stays on the right side of rustic, offering a natural beauty and touch, while ensuring it
holds up to day-to-day living demands.
Beebe and Yudell strove for a balance to the scale of the spaces. This was key to creating a feeling of informality
combined with an architectural presence and elegance.
Think of it as a collection of different experiences that are tied together by the design of the building.
There are rooms that let the eye soar...
Think of it as a collection of different experiences that are tied together by the design of the building.
There are rooms that let the eye soar...
In contrast to a collection of intimate, personal spaces...
...that are tied together by exquisite architectural design.
And a feeling that when you are there, you have arrived.
And a feeling that when you are there, you have arrived.
The welcoming master bedroom is reached through an elegant passage created by the volumes of Henrybuilt’s wardrobes (and hidden personal dressing rooms) on either side.
DRESSING WELL
Welcoming to walk into, beautiful to wake up to, a graceful space for dressing – designed to meet your specific needs.
Henrybuilt's functional elements help weave the spaces together.
“The transition between the areas is so intuitive and flexible. We can switch between spaces and activities and it all feels of one family,” says Yudell. “If the different parts were too fussy, or not refined enough, or were designed as separate pieces, it wouldn’t work.”
That’s the symphony of the system approach: conferring order with minimal effort, providing the intuitive movement of built-in functionality.
“The transition between the areas is so intuitive and flexible. We can switch between spaces and activities and it all feels of one family,” says Yudell. “If the different parts were too fussy, or not refined enough, or were designed as separate pieces, it wouldn’t work.”
That’s the symphony of the system approach: conferring order with minimal effort, providing the intuitive movement of built-in functionality.
The shift between lounge and kitchen, seating and storing, dressing and passage-way is invisible. The beauty lies in the fluidity
and seamless integration of Henrybuilt’s customized and personal approach.
This touch of hand is felt whether storing a client’s collection of colored glassware or tucking soft scarves in equally soft pockets.
“Henrybuilt’s detailing is elegant. It makes functional systems feel personal and human, not corporate,” says Yudell.
Magic that happens on the inside allows the spaces to be relaxed on the outside.
ACTIVATE THE WHOLE HOUSE
Henrybuilt in every room.
The surfaces add to the feel. Tina’s artistic brush is evident in the rich colors and textures throughout. Subtle and strong.
The walls are luxurious. A skim-coated plaster with colors mixed by Beebe. The result is somewhere between stone and paint.
The surface plays with light and offers a depth that paint alone can’t.
Henrybuilt’s natural white oak is an element on her canvas.
Henrybuilt’s natural white oak is an element on her canvas.
A home that promotes and supports the lived experience. A home that helps guide living in an intuitive and less inhibited way.
A home that takes the complicated tasks of living and makes them easy. That’s comfort.
