Creative families need creative spaces. For Autumn Sproles; her husband, Chris Stutsman; and their two homeschooled children, that meant a studio addition that would accommodate playing with Lego bricks, banging on percussion, stenciling T-shirts, painting holiday ornaments, crafting collages and even making Hula-Hoop-like toys. “We wanted a place for our creative, untidy projects so they did not keep ending up on the dining area table, ” Sproles says.
The family enters the new addition through a barn-style sliding door in the dining area of their main house and then descends several steps to the studio, which sits on a incline that contributes to a creek.
While the primary roof of the studio is a simple gable, a portion upward top was butterflied to accommodate clerestory windows that bring in light but block views to a neighboring house.
A board-formed-concrete wall provides interest on one side of the room. “When you have that large of a surface, you want to start out seeing some texture and outlines, ” Cindy Black says.
