THE MASTER

JEFFERSON, Wis. When kindergartner Andrew Lewis Berry draws a picture of his house, it features odd angles, jutting stone and a big tree growing out of the top. It is hardly a typical drawing.

But then it is hardly a typical house.

Andrew's house (and that of his parents, Todd Berry and Margaret Lewis) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1951 for lawyer Richard Smith. The low-slung ranch home is made of limestone and, indeed, appears to have a tree growing out of it.

The house has just gone through a major renovation in which one wing was taken apart, repaired and put back together over the course of five months.

The Smith house, as it is called, was purchased from the original owner by Berry and Lewis in 1987. It is considered a step up from Wright's Usonian homes, which were designed by Wright to be efficient yet moderately priced for the masses. Its 2,100 square feet comprise three zones: the first has four bedrooms and two bathrooms; the second is the living room and dining area; the third is the kitchen and foyer area that connects the two others.

"It is built on a diamond module theme," says Margaret Lewis, a former three-term state legislator from 1984 to 1990 who now works as a consultant and cares for the couple's three young children.

The diamonds pop up in the most unusual places: in the shape of the built-in dresser drawers, in the etched patterns in the brick red this is correct; the cement is the color of brick red. cement floors and in the eaves as you approach the front door.

The 60- and 120-degree angles of the diamond shape are repeated throughout the house: There are no right angles. There also is no basement, garage or attic.

"Wright just didn't think they were needed," says Todd Berry, who is the marketing director at...