Revising the modular blueprint
The clients selected a modular home as an efficient, relatively low-waste alternative to custom building, but they wanted to elaborate significantly on the modular company’s basic blueprint. As a result, Polestar worked closely with the modular home company to accommodate the clients’ requests. The flow of the home centers on a dining room, expanded significantly from the original design, that doubles as a dance hall for swing dancing, the clients’ favorite pastime, with a chandelier that can be raised out of the way via a pulley system. Natural materials like the birdseye maple countertop concrete, native granite, and local pine drive the nature-inspired palette, with surprises like the faux-chimney of fieldstone and granite that acts as built-in bookcase, cedar board ceiling in the powder room, and midnight blue concrete panels as a kitchen backsplash, none of which were part of the original model.