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24 IYD The Carmel Pine Cone March 26, 2010 DETAILS From page 15 IYD thing Mack sought. “I didn’t want money to be the primary focus,” Mack said. Contractors who have seen the completed home have been impressed with the intense effort Mack took to make sure the house was thoughtfully designed and built — a process that took seven years. “They say seven years is actually not that long,” Karpiel explained. “Because they understand how long it takes to do everything.” From the outside, the structure looks like a single-story home. But it’s actually five subtle levels. Mack created the illusion by building staircases low in height, resulting in stairs that are easy to climb. Although there’s an obvious Asian signature, a closer inspection of the home reveals European influences, too. “When you start walking through the house, you realize there is a fusion of different types of architecture,” Karpiel said. “It really works.” When visitors step into the home, they are greeted with a barrel ceiling crafted of vertical grain Douglas fir that looks like the underbelly of a Japanese footbridge. The living room offers views of the home’s rear from the sweeping windows that begin almost at the baseboard and climb toward the ceiling. A “zen” room, which could be an office or meditation room, is adjacent to the living room. Another barrel ceiling leads into the master bedroom, which features a custommade light fixture and New Zealand Shetland OCEANFRONT CARMEL HOME 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath with sunroom, 1-car garage on almost 3 acres. Near Rocky Point. Make an offer! - $5,900,000 wool carpeting. “There is a great feeling of ambiance in the home,” Karpiel said. “It has a very calm feeling.” For the landscaping, Mack used droughttolerant plants, grasses and trees, most of which are indigenous to Carmel Valley. “There are plants that flower in the wintertime, and there are some that flower more in the summer,” he said. “There are warm-season and cool-season grasses.” Mack sought vegetation that shared the same hue as the Northern California coast. He didn’t want nonnative flowers that didn’t fit with the theme of the home. “That was the premise of the house,” he said. “Allow it to be what it is; don’t try to force it.” Mack, 50, learned much of what he knows from his father, who taught him elements of design and construction at an early age. Along with sculptor Isamu Noguchi and acclaimed architects Charles and Henry Greene, Mack’s travels to Japan and other Asian countries also helped influence him. “Noguchi said you need to put something in space to define space,” Mack said. “Until you fill space, space doesn’t really exist.” Mack said he used a pod system in designing the house, which sits on 2.5 acres. “There are four different kinds of buildings,” he said. But there’s a cohesiveness and theme to the house. Because of the numerous windows in the home, most rooms have views of other areas of the house. “Whether you are in the front or back, you will see another part of the home,” Karpiel said. When an artist puts so much time into a piece of art, sometimes he will alter the design over and over, finally coming up with something he’s satisfied with. However, even though it took nearly a decade from the time he designed the home to when it was finished, Mack stayed true to the original design. “I didn’t change a lot of it from where it started to when it ended,” he said. “The layout is about the same. The concept is the same.” Once the house was complete, many of those originally skeptical of Mack’s ideas were won over. “The compliments have far exceeded my expectations,” he said. For information about the home at 5492 Quail Meadows Drive, call Marta Karpiel at (831) 402-6189. Spectacular Front-Line Ocean Views For sale by owner Mitzi Waters ~ 831.625.3947 Scenic Road, Carmel $5,900,000 Sitting on a bluff above the neighboring rooftops, this front line Scenic Road, 3 bedroom, 3 bath, 2313sf residence is located on a 6,000 square foot lot and offers panoramic views of Carmel Bay and the Pacific Ocean. 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