myers park facelift!

23 May 2013

construction is starting on our myers park facelift project! it's always an exciting moment to drive by a house and see the building permit out front. we're thrilled to be working with matt ferguson of the stirling group once again- www.facebook.com/stirlingcharlottenc.

here is a reminder of the before on this project:

13 July 2012

a sampling of some drawings. they're pared down from the original set, which included a very cool glassy dining room extension, wraparound porch, rear 2nd level balcony off the master, and covered outdoor dining area! real estate has been all over the place in the last few years, and this homeowner was very thoughtful about how much to invest, how long they might stay, etc. we LOVE the cool beam / bracket detail and hope that it stays!!!

15 May 2012

we delivered schematics for our myers park facelift last week! 

first and foremost, these clients wanted a front porch. there were some floor plan issues that we needed to work out, but this project is really about the street presence of this home and the front porch. they have a gorgeous front yard and a very small, postage-stamp backyard. so this home needs an inversion to the front!

there were some obstacles - the landscaping cues to very rigid, formal alignments. the family is not a formal family, and the house itself is misaligned all over the place. the upstairs windows don't really have any spatial relationship to each other, and there's a false sense of 2-dimensionality. The property is a beautiful corner lot in myers park and just aches for a 3-dimensional perspective of the house. We designed 4 very different front facades for this home:

simple, simple, simple - a generous front porch, a correction to the middle window upstairs, and a soft eyebrow dormer. this is a very affordable option and leaves the owners room in their budget for a lot of landscaping work.

upstairs balcony - dad really wanted to see one of these!

classic southern porches - charleston style. it's an inversion of that model - which is, of course, always seen from the short front end. but totally fitting for this corner site.

craftsman 2-story - this one had more floor plan changes than the others, and re-worked some tricky spaces upstairs.

all in all we think it's a compelling range of options that all work nicely on this site. we'll see!

16 March 2012

today we begin work on a facelift to a myers park home - for a wonderful family that i'm really looking forward to working with. i have so many ideas for this home that i can barely contain myself!