Oregon Home | 33 When LuAnn Wu went looking for a house in Portland that could fit 15 members of her visiting family, she fell in love with the garden of a 1935 home in the Raleigh Park neighborhood. The house? Not so much. But she knew exactly whom to call — her new daughter-in-law, Emily Wu, the architect behind Peony Architecture. “That garden was sprawling and delicious, and she could do amazing things with it,” says Emily. “But there was a real lack of clarity and cohesion in that home — it was just disorienting.” The house required a complete remodel after having already been redone three times in the past century. It had a lot of square footage but also long hallways, awkward-shaped rooms, dead ends and spaces not laid out well for modern living. “You could actually get lost walking through the house,” Emily says. On the list of desires: large gathering spaces for her family, as well as an updated kitchen and more connection between the home’s spaces. Emily began the process by leaning into her conversations with her mother-in-law and sketching out possibilities for a new floor plan given the existing structure. With the new floor plan in place, she added a series of arches to create better transitions between the spaces, as well as a window that repeats off of the historic living room to make the spaces feel more like they belong to each other. D ign: PEONY ARCHITECTURE Build: LIGHTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION Photography: CHRISTOPHER DIBBLE A REMODEL IN RALEIGH PARK INSPIRED BY LOPEZ ISLAND MAKES ROOM FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. By EMILY GROSVENOR
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