California- and Hawaii-based architecture firm Craig Steely doesn’t often do remodels, but it made an exception when clients Stefanie Wenk and Markus Spiering approached with a boxy, gable-roofed building. It was once a bodega, so the designers chose to preserve a shadow of that original form during its conversion into a live-work space. Its strong geometry inspired the firm’s founder, Craig Steely, to play up these clean forms. A gable in the front flows into the exterior, extended upward. But what truly makes the home unique is the floral tower concealed within.
“It’s kind of like a house within a house,” Steely told AN Interior. After experimenting
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