Michael Gooden’s clients had the perfect little Midcentury Modern house, but they wanted a pool and guest space that could double as a cabana. At first, they thought an addition would answer their needs. Michael told them no.
“We were pretty adamant about not doing an addition to that house,” he recalls. “And they loved the house and wanted confirmation not to add on. We came up with this design instead, and it just came right off the chute.” A combination guest/pool house was a sweet solution that tied the entire project together. “We all loved the design, but it happened to come in over budget— as all projects do.”
No one wanted to give up on the plan, so they built the project in phases, starting with the pool. “We took on the role of design management to make sure nothing went awry with siting. We wanted Five House to be coplanar with the pool and we had existing site walls to deal with,” he says.
There’s a lot of design packed into the new building’s 672 square feet. Built on a 5-foot module (hence the name), it opens and closes with sliding glass doors and privacy screens. Concrete floors polished to the aggregate mimic terrazzo and make it easy to serve the pool area as a cabana. Concrete walls at either end retain the knots of the boards used to form them and echo the figuring of the sustainable-sourced Cumaru used as cladding, decking, and ceiling. The side porch’s canted steel columns suggest the natural lean of neighboring trees, while the space itself evokes a carport on a small Midcentury Modern.
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Citation
M Gooden Design
Five House
Denton, Texas
Project Credits
Architect: M Gooden Design, Dallas
Builder: Adam Larson, Larson Construction, Dallas
Landscape/Pool Design: M Gooden Design
Structural Engineer: Steven Bai, BC Structural Engineers, Allen, Texas
Project Size: 922 square feet
Site Size: .24 acre
Construction cost: $500 per square foot
Photography: Parrish Ruiz de Velasco
Key Products
Countertops: Caesarstone
Faucets: Hansgrohe (kitchen), Grohe (bath)
Finish Materials: Cambria, Mosa
Kitchen Appliances: Bosch
Lighting: WAC, Q-Tran, ELCO, Paris Mirror, Wever & Ducre, Minka Aire
Paints: Sherwin-Williams
Sinks: Blanco (kitchen)
Toilet: Duravit
Washer/Dryer: GE
Windows: Milgard
Window Wall Systems: Western Window Systems
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