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Phoenix, AZ, United States
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Klose Residence
Phoenix, AZ, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
This residence in the Cudia City Estates area of Phoenix was originally built in 1959 as a compact stone-and-
stucco house with a shed roof and a stone fireplace wall. Over the following decades, a series of additions nearly quadrupled its footprint, but each expansion created new problems: disorienting circulation, rooms that
connected awkwardly or not at all, and a kitchen scaled for the original house rather than the one it had become.
The interior had accumulated dark lacquered wood walls and ceilings, buckling wood flooring from underground
water leaks, and extensive single-pane glass that was costly to condition in a Phoenix summer.
The renovation, executed in three phases, reorganized the house from the inside out. The first phase addressed
the periphery: the primary bedroom suite was reimagined with access to a private rear garden, expanded closets, and a new bathroom with a soaking tub and steam shower. A centrally located but poorly configured common room was gutted and converted into two home offices flanking a low library millwork bar. The second phase restructured the central core, where two existing bedrooms were reorganized into three, each with remodeled or newly added bathrooms and direct access to defined outdoor garden areas.
The third phase tackled the oldest and most compromised portion of the house. The small original kitchen was
demolished and rebuilt at a scale appropriate to the expanded plan, opening up the formerly compressed
connection to the home's central living spaces. A wall with an existing large window and clerestory above was
restructured with a new steel frame to accept 10-foot-tall bypassing slider doors, creating a full-height opening
between the kitchen, the dining area, and the rear patio and garden.
At the front of the house, a massive entry canopy that had been part of one of the earlier additions was removed
and replaced with a lighter steel canopy composed of oxidized angle-profile louvers on rectangular tube beams
and round columns. The canopy inflects as it extends from the building, and its louvers cast a changing pattern
of diagonal shadows across the entry walls, the patio surface, and the landscape throughout the day.
Inside, the dark lacquered wood surfaces were replaced with panels of clear-sealed, rift-cut white oak, used
consistently in wall cladding, ceiling panels, cabinetry, shelving, and millwork throughout the project. To unify the
formerly disconnected rooms and floor levels (including a sunken living area), a lightly ground concrete topping
slab with exposed aggregate was poured across the entire house, creating a single continuous ground plane.
Lighting and mechanical distribution were positioned on wall surfaces to allow the wood ceiling planes to remain
visually uninterrupted.
stucco house with a shed roof and a stone fireplace wall. Over the following decades, a series of additions nearly quadrupled its footprint, but each expansion created new problems: disorienting circulation, rooms that
connected awkwardly or not at all, and a kitchen scaled for the original house rather than the one it had become.
The interior had accumulated dark lacquered wood walls and ceilings, buckling wood flooring from underground
water leaks, and extensive single-pane glass that was costly to condition in a Phoenix summer.
The renovation, executed in three phases, reorganized the house from the inside out. The first phase addressed
the periphery: the primary bedroom suite was reimagined with access to a private rear garden, expanded closets, and a new bathroom with a soaking tub and steam shower. A centrally located but poorly configured common room was gutted and converted into two home offices flanking a low library millwork bar. The second phase restructured the central core, where two existing bedrooms were reorganized into three, each with remodeled or newly added bathrooms and direct access to defined outdoor garden areas.
The third phase tackled the oldest and most compromised portion of the house. The small original kitchen was
demolished and rebuilt at a scale appropriate to the expanded plan, opening up the formerly compressed
connection to the home's central living spaces. A wall with an existing large window and clerestory above was
restructured with a new steel frame to accept 10-foot-tall bypassing slider doors, creating a full-height opening
between the kitchen, the dining area, and the rear patio and garden.
At the front of the house, a massive entry canopy that had been part of one of the earlier additions was removed
and replaced with a lighter steel canopy composed of oxidized angle-profile louvers on rectangular tube beams
and round columns. The canopy inflects as it extends from the building, and its louvers cast a changing pattern
of diagonal shadows across the entry walls, the patio surface, and the landscape throughout the day.
Inside, the dark lacquered wood surfaces were replaced with panels of clear-sealed, rift-cut white oak, used
consistently in wall cladding, ceiling panels, cabinetry, shelving, and millwork throughout the project. To unify the
formerly disconnected rooms and floor levels (including a sunken living area), a lightly ground concrete topping
slab with exposed aggregate was poured across the entire house, creating a single continuous ground plane.
Lighting and mechanical distribution were positioned on wall surfaces to allow the wood ceiling planes to remain
visually uninterrupted.
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