ABOUT THE HOUSE
The home features 3 bedrooms/3 baths, a main bathroom tub with jets, a private 4K HDR projection theater (which can also be used as a bedroom), a small black and white darkroom, a large basement/workshop, as well as a state of the art kitchen which is open to the main dining and living room.
The home also contains a massive cantilevered deck that doubles as a car port, a number of corner to corner glass windows, multiple decks, and the signature "floating" staircase that leads you up to the upper level.
Furnished with "modern" style furniture, rich hardwood floors downstairs, custom wood trim, plush carpets, and window shades that are hidden during the day, the home is considered to be as much of as much as a piece of art, as it is a practical family retreat.
ABOUT THE STYLE
While Glowing Lantern initially appears to draw from "Mid-Century Modern," or "International Style," the detailing of the "Arts and Crafts" movement, as well as certain "Modern" and "Constructivist" aesthetics, it's exact architectural style is difficult to pin down. And while Dennis McGuire often notes the early influence of Frank Lloyd Wright in his work, the house moves beyond Wright. McGuire's connection from the inside to outside, corner to corner glass windows, use of (similar to) Cherokee Red tones on the exterior, and robust use of wood trim do certainly pay homage to Frank Lloyd Wright. But McGuire goes a step further in Glowing Lantern by his use of trapezoidal massive glass windows, a contemporary open floor plan with huge room volumes, and a nearly 500 square foot cantilevered deck which doubles as a car port. Having said that, maybe's it best left to have Dennis explain his "style..."
From Dennis:
"I haven't thought at all about style since I was at University. I like what they say in Bali: "We have no art, we just do the best we can." I have no style, I just do the best I can. Or put another way: I work with the possibilities of a site. How much Nature is there on and beyond the site that I can bring into the house? I work with the possibilities of my Clients' program. To what degree, considering layers of privacy, can I open that program up, so in the finished house one always has a sense of what is going on beyond the space one is in at the time. In other words, I work by deduction, using what our times have made available and what the powers that be and my Clients' budgets will allow, hoping to create environments where even though there are walls and roofs, there is also something of the sense of freedom I felt when I was running through that canyon in West Seattle when I was a 5 and 6 year old boy, when everything seemed possible. And in line with that, I'm sure that I've told you that I have spent my adult life designing and building the kind of houses I would have been happy to have grown up in....."
ABOUT THE BUILDING
Building Areas
Main Floor: 1425 Sq. Ft. + 470 Sq. Ft. Deck + 97 Sq. Ft. Utility Room
Upper Floor: 1076 Sq. Ft. + 46 Sq. Ft. Deck
Layout
Bottom Floor: Workshop/Basement, Darkroom, Utility Closet, Carport
Main Floor: Living Room/Dining Room/Kitchen, Utility Room, 3/4 Guest Bathroom, Theater Room (Can be used as a Bedroom), Deck
Upper Floor: "Loft" Bedroom with Full Bath, "The Yellow Room" Bedroom with 1/2 Bath, "Main" Bedroom with Full Bath & Jacuzzi Tub, Balcony