Perched in a tree canopy overlooking South Carolina’s Lake Keowee, this expansive porch offers year-round enjoyment. Design-build firm Ridgeline Construction Group created the custom home, which has a refined rugged look that fits right in with the trees along the lakeside. Designed for indoor-outdoor entertaining, the porch provides ample space for the homeowners to host their friends and family, including their adult children and numerous grandchildren.
The homeowners, empty nesters from Chicago, originally planned for the house to serve as a second home and as a hub for themselves and their family. However, they wound up relocating permanently. “The house works really well for them. When they decided to move here full time, we didn’t have to tweak a thing,” interior designer Maggie Madarasz says.
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“Skylights are horizontal planes of glass that face the sky. Sunlight barrels through and can create unbearable, uncontrollable hot spots,” he says. “They don’t control the light, they don’t manipulate the light and they don’t filter or shape the light. Light monitors are a way of architecturally controlling the light.”
By making them north-facing, Finne ensured that they provide soft, easily controllable northern light. However, he rotated each monitor slightly toward the east. This created a more interesting pattern expressed by the ceiling beams, which follow the rotating positions of each light monitor. “If all the beams had been lined up parallel to one another, the design would have lost something,” Finne says.
Three of the five light monitors are operable. This allows them to vent out hot air as it rises. “Between the large sliding doors and the light monitors, this house stays nice and cool,” Finne says. “It doesn’t have air conditioning because it doesn’t need it.”