Remodel strategies: 3 ways to grow

Sunset, April, 1989

La Jolla, California, architect Mark Lee Christopher picked up the roof loads with parallel glue-laminated beams and transferred these loads to posts buried in the end walls. Nailing plywood to tbe walls gave them shear strength against sideways movement. It also let him add a 4foot-wide, 25-foot-long, peaked skylight over the old living room and former hall.

Christopher also removed the wall to the dining room, opening the core of the house even more.

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