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This is basically about 850ft² (plus a small, aprox
250 ft² basement). It looks much bigger, because of its
shape, and attached garage (the two story area on the right
side) with its unfinished upper 'storage' nearly as big as the
house. I came to an interesting realization, while designing
this house. I was passing a bland subdivision of identical pastel
'boxes,' when I had a thought about how every low ceiling house
had an attached garage with a high dramatic ceiling, and all they
did was park their cars under it. So, what I did, was to design
the garage like those standard houses, with a low ceiling, and
rooms above it, and designed the living room like a garage, on
a concrete slab (topped with floor bricks), with a soaring
sloping ceiling. There are balconies on both the back levels,
overlooking the living room, high clerestory windows, and
greenhouse style stairwell glass. The empty, unfinished,
area, gained by slightly raising the garage roof, big
enough to be its own little house, was later
finished into a 480ft² master apartment.

Notice how most of the windows (21) are the same size.
Those are standard doorwall sealed glass units. This house,
shows, as well as any other, the versatility of these amazingly
economical, insulating, tempered safety glass, fixed windows.
The small venting windows, near the ground, at the far end of
the house, are low cost 'basement' type windows which blend
well with the timber framed wall of glass. They, and the
doors, later got painted to match the other house trim.
The windows are just one creative detail, to make
these houses very economical and easy to build.