Smaller Homes and Remodeling Projects

We are very happy to engage in the design of moderately sized homes and smaller remodeling Projects, such as Kitchen Updates.  
We have done many many remodeling projects over the years and designed a number of smaller homes.
  Just a couple of them are shown here.

Smaller Homes

A Mediterranean - Craftsman Home

This is a small home with a Big Heart.  This design can be built at 2,900 or 3,500 square feet.  Set into the hillside on a sloped site, the lower floor level is at walk out grade at the rear and to the right side of this front view.  On the Lower Floor are two Bedrooms and one full Bathroom .  Also there is a large sized Game Room or Lounge with nice large windows overlooking down hill vista.  There is also a generous S torage area on this floor.   On the Upper Floor level is the Master Suite; the Open Plan Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen and a Half Bath for guest use.  This floor opens out onto an outdoor Patio which has a lovely trellis roof with flowering vines intertwined.  This forms an open air yet shady Outdoor Room for Dining and relaxing.  The exterior is finished in stucco and stone with a colorful tile roof and Cedar gable trim and trellis'.

A Vacation / Lake or Mountain Home

This is designed as a Vacation / Weekend Home equally suitable for a Lakeside site or as a Ski Lodge in a Mountain setting.     This design can be built at 2,600 or 3,200 square feet with 3 Bedrooms, 3.5 Bathrooms, an Open Loft, Great Room, Dining area, and Kitchen.   The two Guest Suites flank the Open Loft area on the Upper Floor level.  The Loft over looks the Central Great Room with its big stone Fireplace.  On one side of the Great Room is the Master Suite and on the other are the Kitchen and Dining areas.   The exterior can be finished as an all log home or with rustic siding and peeled log structure supporting the extended roof line over the Patio.

 

Remodeling Projects

Kitchen Remodeling

This Kitchen remodeling was done in an older, smaller home and has greatly. increased its livability.   The original kitchen space was enlarged by removing a wall of closets and then opening it to the Dining Room beyond with the arched pass through shown.  The client chose a traditional Craftsman cabinet style, Chestnut stain, Stainless Steel appliances, and Granite slab counters.   Hand blown lighting completes the kitchen design with a little color and whimsy. 

 

         Whole House Remodeling

Shown here are before and after photos of two of our large scale remodeling projects which involved most of the house and replacement of an old, outdated/unfortunate addition with a new one which respects the historic nature of the home's original style.

 Victorian Home Restoration with Appropriatley styled additions

The original Victorian home (left) had suffered from a poor later addition, the shed roof, picture window and floor levels 2 feet
higher than those of the original house.  We used an expert in 
demolition to lower the bedrock under that garage to allow us
to get the floor levels to match the original house.  There was no damage to the original home. We then built the 2 additions (one behind) which are totally in keeping with the original style.  We added some period architectural detial to the exterior as you can see in the finished version at right.  The new garage is there in the same location, though not visible in this image.

Tahoe View Home

The before version of this home was built on a 65% slope above Lake Tahoe in the 70's and had all the lack of character and spaciousness typical of that time.  The remodeled version shown at the right (in model form)added the top floor, opening the Great Room to two and a half stories in height as you can see by the tall central windows.  The Guest cottage with the garage below it was also a new addition with a driveway now accessible in Winter, which the old house did not have!  The upper drive was retained for Summer use, but the paved section was reduced for the one bit of level lawn on the site.