A new ground-up two story home over a basement in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, designed to fit among the beautiful mature redwood trees on the site. This home is for a young family with three growing and energic sons. We focused on durable yet elegant materials including a stained concrete floor, cement fiber siding at the steel and wood slab staircase and exposed douglass fir beams and columns. The indoor/outdoor flow of the home is exemplified by materials transitioning from in to out and large sliding doors that open the home up the pool and expansive park-like yard.