STOREFRONT STUDIO

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STOREFRONT STUDIO

• Houses converted to businesses and stores added
  to front yards.
• Rachael kitagawa, kel kimhasawad jocie white

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Residences can be converted to suit any business
needs

• Café/cinematheque

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Residences can be converted to suit any business
needs

• Custom framing!!

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Residences can be converted to suit any business
needs

• restaurant

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Residences can be converted to suit any business
needs

• Offices (dentist, law, etc.)

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Converted house

• Houses are either gutted or remodeled for retail
  purposes.

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Converted house

• Some were converted from a combination of
  residential/business to solely business.

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Converted house

• This is the architecture office of Tom Bosworth.

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additions

• Houses are expanded to incorporate retail in the
  front yard, with residence in the back.

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additions

• This is the alphabet soup bookstore.

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Additions

• Some additions are extensions of existing garages
  and basements.

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Entrances

• Entrance to the residence may be through a narrow
  corridor or a back/side stairway.

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Entrances

• the main entrance to the business usually remains
  in the front.

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Transitions

• in many cases the business becomes more prominent
  than the residence so it becomes incorporated
  into the urban fabric as development increases.

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Transitions

• When houses are converted into a business it
  creates a more domestic and friendly feeling for
  the client. This makes the transition from rural
  to urban a little less shocking.