SPOTLIGHT DEPARTMENT
A Seamless Blend of Old and New: Addition Modernizes While Preserving Original
EXISTING REAR
NEW REAR
With this issue of Create, we’re introducing a new “Spotlight” column in which remodeling firms describe particularly challenging projects and the solutions they devised to meet their clients’ expectations. In this premier article, principals at the Washington, D.C.-based Landis Construction Corporation describe their approach to improving and beautifying a couple’s classic home.
W
hile living in their small house in Chevy Chase, D.C., for more than 20 years, a cou- ple cherished a dream of installing a new
kitchen and small siting room, both of which would feature a view of their the backyard. Tis was one of the goals behind their decision to have a two-story ad- dition designed and built on the back of their original 1916 Craſtsman-style home. Te original plan called for expanding the existing kitchen, but the final solu- tion involved moving the kitchen and siting room entirely into the new addition and using the original kitchen space as a butler’s pantry/coffee-making area.
To retain the Craſtsman style of the house, on the interior we did some repurposing by moving a 15-light door from the second floor to serve as the door into the new walk-in pantry off the kitchen. We echoed the original dark wood trim of the Craſts- man house, using stained trim around the addition’s new windows and doors, as an accent on floating shelves and on a large light shelf for the kitchen’s clerestory windows. Although the kitchen cabinets came from a commercial manufacturer, we worked with a local mill shop to make and install dark trim around the cabinets and shelves throughout the house. All of the original interior details—the
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moldings and wood floors—were maintained. By introducing new elements while preserving the old, we were successful in harmonizing the new addition with the house’s venerable Craſtsman style.
Unusual Constraints/Challenges and Creative Solutions Our clients also wanted to add a litle more square footage to a second floor bedroom. Tey wanted to keep their existing upstairs master bathroom intact, but the bath was in the original two-story screened-in porch that had to be removed. Te owners wanted to keep the bathroom to control project costs and to preserve equipment that was in good condition. Tis necessitated our shoring up part of the second floor bathroom, removing the rest of the second story and rebuilding a larg- er two-story addition around the existing master bath. We framed out the walls and floor system separate from the bath to give the owners the op- tion of tearing out the bathroom sometime in the future and create a larger one.
Supporting the second floor bathroom, and deal- ing with the terracota wall construction of the
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