Country Oak Lane Family Room
Alamo, CA
1/2"=1' scale
22" x 22" x 18"
When building a dream home for your family, you want to be certain that it will turn out exactly as you imagine it. In this case, the vision was to newly construct an “old barn” as a rustic, cozy hub to bring the family together. It’s always a challenge to age wood and get mortar to read as it would in another time and scale convincingly, without conveying the feeling of a train set. We know we succeeded when people who see the model for the first time consistently react with appropriate, “Ah…”