Building With Hope and Faith
The Renovation Transformation
We enjoy taking on a variety of home renovation projects of all sizes. We shared the first part of this design story last month, where we gave you a tour of the exterior of this renovation transformation. This time, we’ll give you a guided tour of the beautiful new interior. We hope you love this as much as we (and the homeowners) do and can visualize your own home achieving a design upgrade.
Opening the First Floor Expanded The View
This traditional Cape Cod style house used to consist of small walled off spaces and doorways. During design discussions, our homeowners came prepared with a wish list, and at the top of the list was an open floor plan, a larger kitchen, an expanded basement, and a new great room.
What Is a Great Room?
Great Rooms are not a new concept, dating back to medieval castles. Today, great rooms are combinations of several different rooms in a home. It can typically include a living room area, dining area, and kitchen or bar area. It is an open and inviting space for family and guests to enjoy entertaining and relaxing.
The house now has a new addition, which you cannot see from the front. In this new space, we created the Great Room they had always wanted. We redesigned the kitchen for a larger footprint and removed the walls.
To open things up further, the kitchen flows right into their new great room, which has a vaulted ceiling and a lovely view of the swimming pool in the backyard. The whole area is bathed in light from all the windows and skylights, and the now-open floor plan.
Unexpected and Bonus Design
Our homeowners wanted to open up the dining room area, but there was a staircase right in the middle, surrounded by walls. It completely interrupted their vision of an open floor plan. This dining area connected to the great room and the kitchen.
While the homeowners couldn’t see how it could be accomplished without relocating the stairs, we designed the stairs to be in an open space. Their dream came true: when you open the front door you have an uninterrupted view straight through to the back windows.
While designing the great room, we added a surprise we knew they would love – a balcony on the 2nd floor that overlooked the great room. They were overjoyed at getting this bonus they had not imagined. There’s a high window in the great room. When you’re on the 2nd floor balcony you can see the back yard through the large window.
Getting Better Use of Their Spaces
— The former living room is now a reading room with glass French doors. An open floor plan has many advantages, but now it was important to establish a quiet and private area that can be closed off with doors. This was the perfect spot and size for a cozy library.
— Another part of their wish list was to make their existing first floor bedroom into a master suite with walk in closet and private bathroom.
— In the basement area under the new addition, our design included a yoga studio. If you’re going to make this your forever home, it’s important to include the features that will make the space enjoyable and functional for many years to come for your personal goals, taste and preferences. In the yoga studio, the full-sized windows have a view to the backyard, making it a lovely and peaceful place for fitness and meditation.
Before the renovation there was one entry into the basement which was down the interior stairs. We added an additional entry directly from outside and also connected the old and new basements.
It all added up to taking a traditional Cape Cod house from modest to sensational.
Our Clients Are Just Like You
Our homeowners had been living there a long time. They loved their style of home, their neighborhood, and the property. This was their forever home, with no thoughts of moving. They knew what they didn’t like, and they knew what they wanted. How it would or could happen, was the unknown factor. “We don’t think you can do that with this house” is a phrase we’ve heard many times over many projects.
One thing they knew for sure: the time was now. As they put it, “if not now, when??”
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