NewAddRenoShoreLineRenovation

Shoreline Renovation

PROJECTS

ADDITIONS/RENOVATIONS

ADDITIONS/RENOVATIONS

SUBURBAN SUBVERSION

NOT FOR PROFIT/PROFIT

Photo Credit: Bob Gundersen

Rebirth Within The Architectural Genome

A tight site had a 4BR 2,300sf home reinvented to 2,800sf in 2022. A modest variance was needed to have code compliant headroom on the small third floor.

-Much of the street facing facades remain unchanged, but the first floor was radically opened-up to flip the stair in its existing opening, create a full house lightwell.

-The second floor has its same organization, but the rear wing of the home was fully flawed, and a new wing replaced the existing for the Primary Bedroom.

-The third floor was made habitable and that new roof, set between the existing roof planes, reinventing the house form at the street.

-2 ½ new bathrooms, new kitchen, high-density storage, via 3 additions (entry, Primary/kitchen wing, third floor)

-Fully reinvented front and rear entries.

-Exposing the existing chimney mass and reversing the stair exposed layers of history and celebrated.

- Removing interior walls, replaced with dropped beams and expressed colors and simple trim that celebrates at least 5 generations of construction.

-Craft is a focal quartersawn solid cherry, stainless steel, white oak, stone, mirror, teak, linear trim, the insinuation of expressive curves, and tile.

-Windows are floated in fusing trim, ganged to become glass walls.

A home that was dangerous, deteriorating and in no way code compliant was made safe – using its essential form and floor lines, but made an efficient, light-filled ensemble of expressive spaces, craft and history.

Built through COVID, on budget.