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UNIQUE HOUSE REMODEL - HOME PLANS ONLINE
RIVER HOUSE
REMODEL DESIGN
IN PLAN VIEW, IN
ELEVATION, AND IN ISOMETRIC
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they sold you. With us, you can get the house you know you paid for.
AG 2006
This home design project developed a several-generations cottage and vacation home into a fine, small house for year-round living - with a better view of the river by which it stood. You'd think that the smaller the house the easier the design. Sometimes, there's not much to be done with a cottage footprint, a small house design. Those sometimes more often than not do not hold true when you think about it really hard, wonderfully challenged.
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This river house remodel design plan unfolded in three phases of house design project-
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 cottage cum small house Front Of House with which we began -
The matter of the 2 beds and baths on L2 involved designing year-round home space only (maybe) 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. Men behaving badly works for Pitchfork. Turned out, men behaving badly worked out for the clients, too]
For starters, this was that which we had to begin our work this small 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 in plan view.
Here's the area in which we could work the small house design project on L2, in plan view -
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. Each bedroom with a view of the big river in the front yard.
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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, in plan view.
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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 a wireframe in isometric to lend perspective. Note, please, the new covered main entry at Left Of House, in isometric.
And here's the complimentary in 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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