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This pool is perfect for swimming laps or for diving. Both the swimming pool and raised hot tub have Indiana Limestone coping, and the deck is brussels block pavers. The pool has an automatic safety cover with custom stone walk-on lid system, and the hot tub has a waterfall spillover feature. Photos by Linda Oyama Bryan
Hickox Williams Architects, Inc.Photography by Peter Vanderwarker
This Second Empire house is a narrative woven about its circulation. At the street, a quietly fanciful stoop reaches to greet one's arrival. Inside and out, Victorian details are playfully reinterpreted and celebrated in fabulous and whimsical spaces for a growing family -
Double story kitchen with open cylindrical breakfast room
Parents' and Children's libraries
Secret playspaces
Top floor sky-lit courtyard
Writing room and hidden library
Basement parking
Media Room
Landscape of exterior rooms: The site is conceived as a string of rooms: a landscaped drive-way court, a lawn for play, a sunken court, a serene shade garden, a New England flower garden.
The stair grows out of the garden level ordering the surrounding rooms as it rises to a light filled courtyard at the Master suite on the top floor. On each level the rooms are arranged in a circuit around the stair core, making a series of distinct suites for the children, for the parents, and for their common activities.
Hoffman Grayson Architects LLPOriginally, the front of the house was on the left (eave) side, facing the primary street. Since the Garage was on the narrower, quieter side street, we decided that when we would renovate, we would reorient the front to the quieter side street, and enter through the front Porch.
So initially we built the fencing and Pergola entering from the side street into the existing Front Porch.
Then in 2003, we pulled off the roof, which enclosed just one large room and a bathroom, and added a full second story. Then we added the gable overhangs to create the effect of a cottage with dormers, so as not to overwhelm the scale of the site.
The shingles are stained Cabots Semi-Solid Deck and Siding Oil Stain, 7406, color: Burnt Hickory, and the trim is painted with Benjamin Moore Aura Exterior Low Luster Narraganset Green HC-157, (which is actually a dark blue).
Photo by Glen Grayson, AIA
Siding & Windows Group LtdThis Glencoe, IL Colonial Style Home was remodeled by Siding & Windows Group. We installed Marvin Ultimate Clad Windows, Fypon Shutters in Black, Premium James Hardie Artisan Lap Siding in ColorPlus Technology Color Evening Blue. Installed James Hardie Artisan Accent Trim in ColorPlus Technology Color Arctic White, Hardie Soffit & Fascia in Arctic White. Also remodeled Front Entry Portico with Wood Columns and Railings.
SURROUNDS Landscape Architecture + ConstructionLandscape Architect: Howard Cohen
Photography by: Bob Narod, Photographer, LLC
American Deck and PatioBuilt in Winchester, VA for the Trex Company. Low level deck allows for alternate design elements such as wide cascading steps, planter boxes, and custom benches. Notice use of mutiple material colors.
Kalamazoo HardscapeBefore & after: deck removal followed by Unilock Beacon Hill Flagstone patio with Copthorne paver borders, High Format Kodah block retaining walls and steps with Dimensional Coping step treads and capstones, low voltage lighting, High Format Grand Ledge block wall, and High Format Empire steps.
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