Tack Barn, Sonoma California
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Tack Barn in Sonoma CA
Sep 13, 2022
Design: Faulkner Architects
Location: Sonoma, California, USA
Photos: Joe Fletcher Photography
Tack Barn, California
North of San Francisco, in Glen Ellen, a less populated part of the California wine country, the culture has been based on agriculture and was named for an original winery. Jack London made this his permanent home here in the early 1900s. Drawn by the land, London believed in the redemptive qualities of rural life. Less than an hour from the City, rolling hills covered with groves of oak trees surround the downtown.
The strong agricultural history has affected the built environment here with many examples of barn like houses that are confusingly morphed between the two vocabularies. Unnecessary on a barn, overhangs and house like fenestration result in a kitsch mash up of both building types. Reuse of a 1950s barn served as a first step in the making of this retreat in Glen Ellen California. The original tack barn consisted of a single interior tool and workspace with a crushed gravel floor, upper level sleeping attic and lean-to shed roof for horses.
Attracted by the same aspirations as Jack London a century before, a San Francisco family of four and repeat client came to us with the request to reclaim the old Tack Barn as living space. The family stays in the barn on weekends in order to get the lay of the ...
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