There’s a reason for this.

But still.

It’s just plain crazy. I mean, pretty much every modern design publication– blogs, Web sites, magazines. The little house has been featured in them all!

800 square feet. Built for $100,000. Indiscriminately cool. RED. So red it stands sharply against Seattle’s often color-drained landscape.

David Sarti designed and lives in this modern-day marvel. And it’s a testament to Seattle’s contemporary design.

From Metropolis Mag:

It’s a sweet fire-engine-red box planted in the backyard of a Central District home. I walked down the grassy driveway past an unremarkable blue traditional home and was surprised to see this Bauhaus cube where another yard might have a swing set. The red HardiPanel siding made it look very much of the moment, but the efficiency of design and small size were reminiscent of the workers’ houses that Gropius and his contemporaries built in Europe between the wars.

From the Seattle Times:

David Sarti’s newly finished, modernist-style house in Seattle’s Judkins Park, a little south of East Yesler Way, is the first he has designed and built for himself. It is a showcase for his aesthetic sensibilities and an embodiment of his can-do spirit.

From Dwell:

In a largely un-redeveloped area of Seattle, David Sarti pioneers a new vernacular.

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