Designed for a young family in the Brookside neighborhood, this project modernized a home built in the 1930s and transformed the backyard with a series of pavilions. The interior spaces were designed to provide better visual connection to the backyard, its new deck and play area. The material palette and details complement the existing stucco clad home, but with a distinctly modern aesthetic.

Constructed in phases, a garage addition and shed nicknamed the “mini/MAXI” provide much needed overflow space for the main house and frame an outdoor living space used for play and entertaining. The mini/MAXI pavilions, while functional storage spaces, also offer play areas for the client’s daughters who use them as a playhouse and stage area for impromptu performances. The Muddy Gardener was the designer of the landscape and collaborated on the spatial master plan for the courtyard and the mini/MAXI storage area.