freewallin'

after the tech talk session from the other day's post, christopher,
our client in los angeles, decided to send a few more photos of
the work we did on his house in the hills of mt. washington.

the intention of the design was specific in creating an open space
floor plan which allows light to flood the interior by removing
non-weight bearing walls between the different sections of the
house. the results are a significant improvement in the line of
sight between rooms, mainly the kitchen and dining, but also
including the front hallway leading to their main door.

after reconfiguring the interior, we we're able to expand the size
of the kitchen and provide more cabinet space and extend counters
in order to create more usable square footage for the couple. we
also designed a number of built-in and custom pieces of furniture
to maintain continuity with the architectural design.

thanks again to christopher for sending out these images. it's
always nice to see our work after it's been lived in for awhile.

pass the mic

it didn't take long for jim and stephanie to book kat for a
second round of karaoke at the william tell saloon. with the
first night having such a great response, it was an easy choice
that was greeted with huge grins, a couple high fives and lots
of friendly trash talk.

as one local rancher was overheard saying the other day
between sips of his jack and coke: "karakoe in tomales?"

ah, yeah.

karaoke in tomales.

we'll keep doing our part by creating the poster art, helping
with set-up and co-hosting the evening.

so, if you like having a good time, we'll see you at the william
tell on thursday night, july 1st. if you LOVE having a good
time, we'll see you for the FULL, blistering three-hour set.

promises, promises

after reading our post from a few days ago, our client with the
cool mt. washington digs, christopher, sent these out to us in
order to help us keep our promise of more images of that work.
he's a little busy right now on the new season of weeds, but
found time to use a point and shoot digital camera to snap
a few angles of the project. it was a battle, because there's a
button you have to push in order for the camera to work and
then you have to upload those to a magical computer and then
attach them to an electronic message called an "email" and hit
another button to send them out. ( i'm exhausted just explaining
all this technical mumbo-jumbo.) that's two buttons and a few
keys on a computer keyboard!

he needs to get an iphone.

ahem.

we look forward to the re-design of the master bathroom
later this year and a few more photos of the project sent our
way. (the opposite view of these images is pretty awesome.
you can see the griffith observatory in the near distance.)

front and center stage

who would've known there was so much vocal talent in such
a small town?

tomales, california? we could have been center stage at the
kodak theatre.

with over 25,000 songs to choose from, the william tell
faithful (and a few unsuspecting visitors) rocked the sh%t
outta the house last night. kat got everybody involved early
and made sure to keep it that way. the form3 crew did our
best to create an atmosphere friendly to testing out those
dormant vocal chords, although we suspect the shots of
jameson had more to do with such a high rate of participation
than our mylar backdrop and xmas lights. thanks to jim and
stephanie for getting the summer fun under way with one
simple rule: if it was your first night at karaoke, you HAD
to sing.

where it's at

who can resist a microphone in front of a mylar backdrop with
a key light shining upon their sweet little face as their favorite
song is cued up by the coolest karaoke dj in the north bay?

not us.

we shall shred through our songbook like a schoolgirl with
an american idol fixation tonight when we help host the
first ever karaoke night at the william tell in tomales. we
are so stoked to feel the warm incandescent glow after a
special courage drink and have been brushing up on a little
johnny cash + june carter duet to bust out at the perfect
moment.

we made this sign earlier in the week for kat because she
is awesome and deserves an awesome sign.

how awesome is that?

pretty f@%#ing awesome.

faster than a speeding bullet

last fall we got a call from a young couple in los angeles who had
just purchased their first home in the hills of mt. washington.
they had extended themselves somewhat in order to purchase
the home, but still had savings enough to do some redesign
and expansion of the space. unfortunately not enough to
create the addition that would make the home quite impressive,
so we had to figure out a way to create more space without
adding any extra square footage.

form3 to the rescue (with sledgehammers in hand).

after the initial visit, we could see the potential in the structure
and lay of the lot, so we began the design with the idea of
future expansion within the next few years. these photos were
taken after we removed walls in order to extend the space
visually. the couple had previously lived in an old warehouse in
downtown and were keen on open space living with exposed
beams, so we created access to the kitchen more directly and
reconfigured the entrance by removing walls and widened the
hallway leading to the front door.

we never got a chance to document the project fully and will be
doing so fairly soon, although we ran across a few photos of the
project the other day.

more to come, we promise.

depends on the scale

we've been in full production mode on the black scale benches
this past week and look forward to completing them for final
installation.

the design is fairly straight-forward and minimal with dead-on
proportion and simple detail work in order to interact with light.

alfred and mega are going to completely freak when we
deliver on monday. (we hope they're wearing the depends
we sent them in the mail last week.)