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With the other guys, you can get the house they sold you.  With us, you can get the house you know you paid for.  AG 2006

        Phase 1 - Can you really get two beds and two baths over only the backside of the house on L2?

        Phase 2 - Can you really open up L1?

        Phase 3 - Can you do something distinctive and attractive with the Front Of House (big river view straight ahead) and Left Of House (main entry) facades?

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HOUSE DESIGN PROJECT PHASE 1

This is the Front Of House with which we began -

The matter of the 2 beds and baths on L2 involved designing home space only above a newer foundation more suitable for an L2 burden over poor soil and substrates.

[Note well, that these clients showed up on our desktops once engineers owning home building companies offered to sink huge foundation stabilization technology to hold up an L2 addition.  Worse than a kisses from your sister, they were.  Camels' noses in the tent was closer to the truth.  Fox guarding the chicken coop got closer still.]

For starters, this was that which we had to begin our work this house design project.  L1 way back when was a shack of sorts, then a small summer cottage, then a larger year-round cottage, and then it was ours.  While there are peripheral areas of some interest on L1, the primary focus was on a core of spaces right partially below our new L2 home design and flanking our staircase, as presented in this online house plan view.

Here's the area in which we could work the house design project on L2 -

  Our home designing space first ended at the head of Beds 1 and 2.  And we did it, as presented here in the online home plan in plan view.

The stairs between L1 and L2 needed engineering approval which took upwards of 3 months.  And we got it.

The extension of the two beds on L2 forward over a larger area above L1 needed engineering approval which took upwards of another 3 months.  And we got it.

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HOUSE DESIGN PROJECT PHASE 2

On L1, we dropped 4 partitions, reidentified spaces for Foyer and Dining, and worked the Kitchen area home design hard to get a welcoming and useful space.

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HOUSE DESIGN PROJECT PHASE 3

Now for the exterior.  The ultimate vantage occurred to us in layers of discovery and developing interest in a look that was both formal and relaxed - kind of like business casual or lunch at the Four Seasons or someone with a sense of style lives here.

The two-fer in this home redesigning is that we could substantially increase L2 habitable space crucially without burdening L1 anymore much at all particularly over older foundation, as subsequently, fully determined by those who fully determine those things.

You saw the floor plan above as it finally came to rest, including the extended roof dormers.  Here's an isometric in wireframe to lend perspective.  Note, please, the new covered main entry at Left Of House.

And here's the complimentary Elevation at Front Of House -

Yes, it took a while to get this looking just right to us.

In the name of higher style, the Classical, front-facing gables present well.  They are toned down in our opinion principally by the large shed roof around which those Classical lines are arranged.

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