Architect Annie Schwemmer likens any remodeling project to the challenge of putting a jigsaw puzzle together.
“You have a different set of existing house conditions, and something different every time that is not working for the client,” she says. “So you have to figure out how to piece all of the givens together with the resources available to make the puzzle work.”
A founder and principal architect with Renovation Design Group, a Salt Lake City, Utah, firm that specializes in custom remodeling, Schwemmer embraced no shortage of challenges in 2004 when she was asked to tackle the revamping of a vintage and ordinary 1,200-square-foot one-story bungalow situated on a busy commuter street in Salt Lake’s older Sugar House neighborhood.
“The client, Brian Hutchinson, came to us because he needed more living space,” Schwemmer says. “He wanted to reconfigure the public space on the first floor, a combination living and dining room, plus a study, to complement a recent kitchen remodel; and he wanted to add a deck to the rear of the structure.”
Built in 1911, the house had only two bedrooms and one bath, so Hutchinson also requested the addition of a proper master suite with full bath. However, the house was already built to the front and both side limits of the narrow lot. That, along with a small rear yard and local zoning restrictions, stood in the way of expanding the ground floor.
There was an unfinished attic, but an adult could only stand up straight in the center of it. Thus, says Schwemmer, the best way to create the desired master suite work was to raise the roof and add a second story.
A 1911 1,200-square foot one-story bungalow was transformed into a 2,100-square-foot showplace.
The design complements the style of the existing house.
Just 4.5 feet was added to the overall height of the 100-year-old house.
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