Set on a steep lot, Belmont Residence transforms a modest 1950's hillside house into a more flexible, light-filled home that supports work, creativity, and the changing needs of the family over time. Interior reorganization improves flow and bedroom proportions, opens the kitchen, dining, and living spaces, and introduces a garden-facing photography studio and minerals library.

A lofted ceiling and bay window seat sensually expand the main living area, while the lower level is rebuilt as a flexible family room and guest room, with the option to become a future ADU. New circulation and clerestory light bring rhythm to the long corridor, and a restrained palette of bamboo flooring, wood accents, and expressive stone ties the home together.

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Program

Addition & Renovation

Project Area

2,850 sf

Location

Belmont, California

Status

Under Construction

project highlights

On a steep mid-century hillside site, the addition couldn’t be oriented north as typically preferred in this climate, so a trellis was used to make the south exposure an asset: It filters heat and tones down glare while keeping the corridor to the studio and new primary suite bright and garden-connected. As it greens in, the trellis becomes a living extension of the upper patio - shading, softening, and stitching the new massing into the rear garden.