Team / Peter Strzebniok
Photography / nottoscale
Type / Interior Design
Location / Hillsborough, CA
Year / 2013

Chess Residence living area. — The living room is permeated by a soft green light from the surrounding trees.

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Chess Residence dining area. — The dining area sits beside the floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the surrounding trees.

Chess Residence kitchen. — The all-white-themed kitchen with white furniture and appliances.

Chess Residence bedroom. — One of the four bedrooms of the Chess Residence.

The Chess Residence is an Interior Design project for a young family in Hillsborough, California. The home was originally built in the 1960s, has 4 bedrooms and 3-1/2 baths, and is situated amongst a group of old oak trees on a sloping lot of 0.7 acres.

One of the main features of the home is the numerous floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the surrounding trees and allow soft green light to permeate the entire space. In order to maximize the natural lighting in the space and to not distract from the treetops that are framed by the windows, we simplified the layout of the area and used an understated, yet elegant and modern color and furniture palette that enhances the existing setting rather than compete with it.