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Charcoal Timber Studio with Glass Front

No. 3 Sheds, Studios & Pool Houses · Mid-Century Modern

Charcoal Timber Studio with Glass Front

This modern backyard office studio features black vertical wood cladding, a full-height glass front, and a low timber deck opening onto a green lawn flanked by stone flagstone walkways and native shrub planting.

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Design notes

Mid-century modern design lines everything up with the house. Look for flat roofs and post-and-beam overhangs, walls of glass, breeze-block screens, terrazzo or large concrete pads with gravel joints, and a rectangular pool set square to the architecture. Planting is sculptural and sparse — agave, yucca, olive, citrus, a Mediterranean fan palm — and colour comes from a single accent: an orange door, turquoise water, a yellow umbrella.

What to look for

  • Roof pitch, siding and windows that echo the main house
  • The path, the light by the door and the planting around it
  • Power, insulation and drainage if you will work or sleep in it
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