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Article: Bright kitchen, dining room replaced old porch.
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- Article date:
- July 1, 1986
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Bright kitchen, dining room replaced old porch
Two slender, parallel rooms, each about 12 by 22 feet, are the new kitchen and dining room in Nita and Don Miller's house in Davis, California. The two-room addition filled in an open corner where a small screened porch once stood; the old roof was removed and a new centered ridge was run the length of the wing.
Cut into the ceilings of both rooms are 8-foot-long light wells shaped like inverted Ys. Double-glazed translucent skylights and the flared walls of the light wells give bright but diffused light.
The wall dividing the rooms has doors at each end that allow traffic to ...