A Storage Barn in California Is Transformed Into a Lakeside Retreat

Architects and winemakers have one thing in common: They both see possibility where others see only raw material. So, when Grant Kirkpatrick, founding partner and principal of KAA Design Group, and his wife, Shaya, longed for a lake house where they could give their children the splashy summers they themselves had grown up with, they found it on a 30-acre former cattle ranch along Lake Nacimiento in Paso Robles, Calif., dubbed Split Rock Ranch. They converted the land into a vineyard and…