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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Contemporary Updates to a 1950's Split Level Dwelling
Exterior with Rain Screen
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Entry
Rain Screen Detail
Living Space
View to Courtyard
Lower Bathroom
Upper Bathroom
Rear Elevation
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Clients: A medical doctor, a real-estate professional and their two school age children.
Challenge: Make a 50’s split level house appealing. Update the mirrored tile, metallic and flocked wallpapered bathrooms. Add a large family room that better connects the house to a beautifully landscaped yard with a swimming pool.
Design Solutions: By stripping the house of all the exterior materials and replacing all the windows, we could solve maintenance and energy concerns and create a beautiful, contemporary composition that integrates the existing house with the addition. The high ceilings of the large open family room provide spatial variation from the smaller, more confined existing rooms.
Scope: 2,000 s.f. kitchen, dining room, living room, master bedroom and bath, kid’s bath, powder room, entry, full exterior renovation.
400 s.f. family room + patio addition.
Interior furnishings and art placement.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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