- I wanna do glass everywhere.
(laughs)
Let's make the whole thing out of ice.
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Hi, I'm Joe Grescovich, I'm a residential designer in L.A.
My favorite part about my job is just meeting
and talking to clients about what their visions are.
It's just fun to put myself in their shoes
and kind of feel what they're feeling
and really just help bringing their vision to reality.
I used to game a lot in middle school.
In a way when I work in the computer,
I like to think of it like it's a video game.
So let's do it, let's design this thing.
So I'm choosing the world I wanna build in
and I think I want a beach.
This is it's own island, that's pretty impressive.
I think I'm gonna go there.
So before I start thinking
about what to put where or whatever,
I'm just trying to understand how the site is laid out
and how to take advantage
of the actual experience of the site.
So what I wanna do is create areas where
there's sort of comfort and seclusion and privacy,
and then other areas where
it almost feels like you're outside.
I'm just gonna start with a simple idea
of privacy on this side and openness on this side.
All right, so let's say that you're going
on your little boat to your property.
So this would be the entrance area.
So I wanna create some kind
of entrance vestibule, if you will.
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For the strategy of this home,
let's say that first floor is strictly communal space.
Bedrooms and other program will be upstairs
with the views and the balcony.
So you can imagine those are all open,
and you're by the beach.
So it'd be cool maybe to have
a kitchen located near that area.
I guess a garage doesn't make much sense here
'cause there's no way I'm driving a car in
and out of the land.
This could be bedrooms.
This could be a giant outside deck.
Let's see, I'm gonna just start with maybe dividing
this kind of evenly.
So it'd be nice to get some stairs maybe in here,
that way there's this long corridor.
You can enter each bedroom.
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It looks like a door
that you'd bring a boat into, let's see.
I want a simple, low profile.
Or I could build like a parapet wall
and just make it glass I guess.
Let's see if I could do that.
Let's say it's a three bedroom,
and there's one master bedroom and two guest bedrooms
and the master bedroom has it's own bath
and the guest bedroom share a bath.
So that way these are kind of smaller rooms
and this is the master bedroom.
It's sort of larger and has more views.
So then I'll build a bathroom
probably back, we'll say, on this wall
so it'll create noise privacy from the other bedroom.
I just wanna drop a bed.
There's a lot of nifty beds in here.
I kind of want something simple.
I have kind of rules and ideas
of things that I wanna do,
but it's typical to explore and find things out
during a process and allowing the unique circumstances
of either the client of the site
to kind of help you create something unique.
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It'd be kind of cool to put
in a glass roof or something in the boathouse.
I wanna do glass everywhere.
(laughs)
Let's make the whole thing out of ice.
Let's just open the garage sort of
'cause I guess it doesn't really need
to be an interior space,
so we'll just assume that, that's boat storage
and it's open to the sky.
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It'd be cool to maybe wrap it up
with some kind of trellis or some kind
of cool thing off of this party area up here.
It could be like a rooftop bar,
and then this would be cool
if we could make it into a rooftop garden.
Sometimes it's happy accidents and stuff.
You're playing around with things
and you come across something that you like.
Oh, I think I found the garden, look at that.
There's literally a garden tool.
That's actually really nice, I like that.
Let's do a skylight over the kitchen
'cause I think it'd kind of be cool
to have this garden, patio, skylight kind of communal space.
That way the communal spaces are all connected visually.
So you kind of just understand how it works.
Okay, I like that these interior walls are white
and that the exterior are this cast-in-place concrete.
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Maybe if they have a fan with the light.
That's weird, when you select fan,
there's one fan without a light.
I guess you could go crazy in this program with lighting.
The level of detail is actually pretty cool.
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And I'm not sure how much space there is right there,
that looks really tight,
but we're just gonna assume that, that's four feet.
That's four feet, people.
I think I'm pretty cool with it.
I'm doing a little walkthrough tour here
of what we've designed.
So, you're going kind of from the island,
then I'd imagine you'd come over on a boat
to this little docking station here.
Park your boat here and then this is kind of
the entryway which, I think if I had more time,
I would of added another entry from the boat storage here
into this under the stair kind of space.
Maybe this is like a giant pivot door
that kind of pivots one way.
I kind of like the idea of this being a solid wall over here
'cause it could just be entertainment space,
you could have space for full height shelving
and then as you kind of approach this area,
you could have this kind of really large dining area here.
So we're going up the stairs.
I kind of like this as a happy accident.
I don't think I meant to do that,
but I think having a skylight over the stair
and over this, it's kind of really nice.
It really signifies an entryway
and then the bedrooms, yeah, you have the shared bath.
As you kind of travel down
you can look out to your right
and then you have this awesome
skylight patio, tree area which could be really cool.
You could have barbecues up here, parties, wine,
all that kind of stuff.
We're back in the master bedroom.
So hopefully the master bedroom, yeah.
Like I assume has the best views in the entire house
which I think is important.
You wanna please the people who are flipping the bill.
(laughs)
And also it's like they're kind of dreaming their vision.
So, yeah.
I'm really pleased with these kind of views.
I think altogether I like what happened here.
Designing is playing and if this is a tool
that can help you play, then I think it is a tool
that's gonna make you a better designer.
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