This house is for a lifelong equestrian on a ten acre property in Templeton. The property is surrounded by wineries, huge oaks, rolling hills, grasslands...you get the picture, it's beautiful, and it's only a half hour from the ocean. The design draws equally upon agricultural buildings in the area, and the suburban ranch house the client grew up in and still loves. (Practically every last neighbor is building a six bedroom McMansion.) The uphill portion is clad in standing seam metal roofing, resembling a grain silo turned on its side, and the downhill portion is more woodsy and informal. The house is oriented to the steeply sloping site so that rainfall will form a little dry creek underneath the main entry. A guest suite is turned 15 degrees to the main house, but normal to the slope of the site.
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