the treehouse

ARCHITECTURE

Raleigh, North Carolina

A historic Mid Century Modern home gets an update in the form of an expansive outdoor deck cascading from the sunroom to the verdant landscape beyond.

Designed by Paul Canin in 1966 this untouched house is nested in a patch of trees in the North Hills neighborhood of Raleigh.

A shot of a midcentury modern house with a deck with vertical slats. The deck is situated inside the garden with some bushes and a small maple in the foreground.

Location
Raleigh, North Carolina

Collaborators

Original Architect | Paul Canin
Photography + Video | Jenn Hall Sweatte

Year

Original House | 1966
Addition | 2024

A photo of the inside of a midcentury modern sunroom with tiled clay floor and large sliding glass windows and doors.
Clay midcentury modern tile with shadows and light pouring over it.
A tan midcentury chair sits in front of a large sliding glass door on multi colored clay tiles.

The material and color palette was chosen to align with the original redwood siding. Darkening window frames and railings to match allow the house to relate to the surrounding woods. Two trees on the site were saved and the deck built around them creating an opportunity for a hammock to live suspended between them, a welcome spot to sway in the warm southern breeze.

A close up image of a house with two large trees growing out of a deck that have a hammock strapped to them.
An artist sketch of a home with two trees coming our of a deck with a hammock on it.
A birdseye view of the tree house deck from above with a a table placement and upper deck postitioned.