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When open, the main living area's multi-slide doors let the perfect weather of Santa Barbara into the home.

This view of the main living area from inside the master bedroom shows how two 90-degree multi-slide doors seamlessly blend the indoors with the outside.

One of two massive pocketing Series 600 Multi-Slide Door in the master suite increase the residents' living space.

When closed, the room's multi-slide doors meet at 90 degrees without a connecting post.

Project • By Western Architectural Openings • Private Houses

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Indoor-outdoor living exemplified in Santa Barbara.Architect Dan Weber calls the Santa Barbara climate – where “it’s never hot, it’s never cold, there are no bugs, no wind, and it never rains” – pretty much perfect.So it stands to reason that his firm, Santa Barbara-based ANACAPA Architecture (which also has an office in Portland), makes the most of bringing together the indoors and the outside when designing homes for clients.Such is the case with the Crestline project, a former 1960s tract home in a neighborhood full of them. When Weber started working with a young couple with modernist sensibilities and a budget that was hardly unlimited, he envisioned a stunning renovation of the outdated home. And it all started with improvin... More