{"id":243714,"date":"2010-07-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/design-tour-features-rebuilt-bungalow-luxury-condo\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T07:00:00","slug":"design-tour-features-rebuilt-bungalow-luxury-condo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/design-tour-features-rebuilt-bungalow-luxury-condo\/","title":{"rendered":"Design tour features rebuilt bungalow, luxury condo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Christy Scannell
\nEditor s\u00e9nior de SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Design<\/a>
The Park Laurel condo\u2019s living room is based in neutral colors that allow the outside view and the inside artwork to shine. (Courtesy Kellie McCormick)<\/figcaption><\/figure>A North Park bungalow and a Park West condominium will be two of the five homes on the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers\u2019 tour, July 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

This first-ever ASID-hosted tour will focus on the \u201cInterior Experience,\u201d combining design, art, fashion and culture. Members of the design teams will be at each location to discuss design challenges and solutions and answer questions. The self-guided tour is open to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an extraordinary opportunity to visit and absorb the ambiance of unique spaces that reflect the lifestyles of some very special people,\u201d said Lynn Wyndham Morris, an Allied Member of ASID and chair of the event. \u201cProperty owners include a notable restaurateur, prominent architect, savvy art collectors and two talented interior designers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Davies\u2019<\/a>Interior designer John Mills Davies designed and owns the North Park bungalow on the tour. He bought the Thorn Street home 10 years ago but later found the existing structure, on a compact 50-by-52-foot lot, to be unsalvageable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really a problem house,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

After battling city zoning requirements for three years, he finally demolished the house and began the rebuild in the same footprint as the original house, a 1906 \u201cshotgun cottage,\u201d with an emphasis on sustainability and recycling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe house has an absolutely tight exterior envelope,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is no air penetration and it is extremely over-insulated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of installing air conditioning, Davies, who has degrees in architecture and design, studied wind patterns across the lot. He then installed clerestory windows and operable skylights in the top of the home. <\/p>\n

\"Design<\/a>
Designer and homeowner John Mills Davies built a 450-square-foot loft in his North Park home, a model of sustainability. (Courtesy John Mills Davies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\u201cI can adjust [the skylights] so a prevailing breeze evacuates heat from the house,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then I can reverse the process in winter. I can run the heat for 5 minutes in the morning and the house stays warm all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newly built house has 1000 square feet on the first level and a 450-square-foot loft. Davies said he designed 10-foot ceilings to make the space feel larger.<\/p>\n

Continuing the sustainability theme, the home includes a kitchen island made of Vetrazzo, a recycled combination of Amstel Light and Heineken beer bottles, with Skyy Vodka bottle glass and windshield glass added for accent color.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just beautiful, very gem like,\u201d he said. \u201cThe colors in the house include lots of ambers, so it just fits right in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Davies said he had no choice but to demolish the original structure on his property, he advises homeowners to consider their particular house\u2019s history before even attempting a simple remodel.<\/p>\n

\u201cA background in architecture is vital,\u201d he said about choosing someone to oversee an older home\u2019s renovations. \u201cThere are a lot of people who would do bad things to good houses and I think the key is having some vision and being able to see what the original intent was and what\u2019s good about the house. There are so many of these older homes that people have really screwed up. You want to be able to walk in and see the bones and really be able to enunciate the good things about the architecture of the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Park Laurel high-rise overlooking Balboa Park was the site of a two-year design and install Kellie McCormick completed for Bast\/Wright Interiors, based in Hillcrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the interesting things about the project is [the owners] were able to purchase another unit during construction of the second building and combine them, which no one else has done,\u201d McCormick said.<\/p>\n

\"Design<\/a>
Kellie McCormick said she designed the Park Laurel condo with flexible spaces to allow the homeowners to rotate their extensive art collection. (Courtesy Kellie McCormick)<\/figcaption><\/figure>The result is a 5,825-square-foot condo with views of the park, city and Coronado Bridge from its 11th floor location. The homeowners requested a WWII New York penthouse style with a soft color palette and ample space for their art collection. To both create the drama the owners sought plus provide a connecting space for the two units, McCormick designed a long gallery that has display areas of various sizes for artwork accented by flexible lighting that can be changed as artwork is rotated.<\/p>\n

McCormick situated the public spaces to take advantage of the views.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the best things about the space was in every room on the park side, the [California Building tower] centers in the window,\u201d she said. \u201cIn part of the living room and sitting room you can watch planes come in, and you can see the bridge and the Pacific from other places.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the condo is mostly neutral with marble floors, the study is a departure with warm sepele wood paneling and shelving. Meanwhile, a guest suite takes on grays and playful wallpaper, which McCormick said was intentional so guests would feel they were \u201cin a different zone\u201d from the other parts of the home.<\/p>\n

McCormick said the condo involved a lot of details and a meticulous search for the right design elements but both she and the homeowners are happy with the outcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a very successful project,\u201d she said. \u201cThe clients were open-minded and we worked well as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other stops on the tour include a downtown condo, a downtown loft, a Scripps Ranch residence and the 50,000 square-foot Cornerstone Church in National City, which was created from a classic movie theater.<\/p>\n

Individual tour tickets are $30 each; discounted group tickets are available. A portion of the proceeds will benefit YWCA\u2019s Becky\u2019s House, a long-term transitional housing community for victims of domestic violence and their children. For more information, call the ASID Information Line at (858) 646-9896 or go to ASIDSanDiego.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Christy Scannell SDUN Senior Editor A North Park bungalow and a Park West condominium will be two of the five homes on the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers\u2019 tour, July 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This first-ever ASID-hosted tour will focus on the \u201cInterior Experience,\u201d combining design, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":243715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Design tour features rebuilt bungalow, luxury condo","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}