(Click here to print this page)Remodeling
Remodeling your home can be extremely rewarding. Many people assume that they need to add square footage to get the house of their dreams, but this can sometimes lead to a dysfunctional layout, or underutilized spaces. There may already be enough room available in your house to achieve your goals by doing some creative reconfiguring. Read below for an example of one such project:
SOUTHERN Michigan - A well worn twenty-year-old house was the starting point for this extensive remodeling project. The flat-roofed home was literally built into a hillside, with windows facing only one direction, making most spaces dark and one dimensional. The owners desired a complete makeover: new kitchen and bathrooms, more daylight and, as a present to themselves an extensive master suite now that their kids were grown.
The solution was to increase the amount of perimeter wall facing away from the hillside by laying it out in "sawtooth" fashion, which maximized the amount of wall for glazing. This zig-zag pattern also gives each room views in two directions...one toward an existing swimming pool, the other toward a natural pond, replete with wildlife, as new floor-to-ceiling glass fills these walls. Rooftop windows were added to the land-locked kitchen and baths, providing massive amounts of natural daylight there. Flat ceilings vary in height throughout the home, and are further broken up by layers of recessed coves, back-lit with indirect lighting and skylights above.
Let me reconfigure your home...and your lifestyle! Click here to send me an email, or call me at 269.321.1890!
Credits:
Jeff Mitchell Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
