A Home For People and Horses
The owners of this project rescue mistreated horses and nurse them back to health. The animals need full time care so the stable is situated adjacent the caretaker’s cottage with a breezeway connecting them. The board and batten siding is locally milled poplar, utilizing a resource that would otherwise have been destroyed. Continue reading
Log Cabin Revival
This log cabin was resurrected from an old bungalow that had been covered with metal siding. Here it became the annex to a new two bedroom home and garage designed to be a pleasant, functional home on a narrow ridge top lot. Continue reading
A House Not too Big
This home is the result of a careful effort to design a small home that makes the best possible use of space. This home looks larger than it really is. The use of smaller than average windows side-by-side and a wrap around porch creates the look of a larger home. The result is a well designed home that fits a smaller budget without looking like it. Continue reading
Historic Revival
How might a Virginia farm family living in the 1900′s add to an original log cabin home? That was the question posed to me by this attorney/journalist couple. The log cabin, reconstructed from another site, became a rustic office/study annex to this completely new but traditional two story farmhouse. The home is complete with front and back porches from which to enjoy Blue Ridge Mountain views. Continue reading
Matching Styles
The challenge here was to match the look of the existing contemporary kit home while creating a space that is unique to the rest of the house. The solution was to match the existing features as viewed from the front while expanding on the theme to create a two story space in the rear. Here the addition is in lighter colored wood not yet stained to match the original house. Continue reading
Client’s Preference
My projects reflect the client’s personal taste in architectural styling. My design method is interactive. It’s your home. My role is to design to suit your needs and your taste while looking out for your best interests; keeping the design within the limits of good practice. I keep an eye out for the best combination of form, function, proportion and structural integrity all within the styling theme of your choice. Continue reading
Expanding and Changing
Adding to a home does not necessarily mean the addition must match the existing architectural style. Sometimes the desired result is a style that better fits the function of the new space while alluding to the original styling in subtle ways. Such is the case in this home of an artistic couple. He’s a musician, she’s a visual artist. Their home began as a humble kit cabin (not pictured) and grew into a lovely home doubling as an art and music studio. Continue reading
Relating Rooflines
One of the greatest challenges for a designer is finding a way to add on to an existing home without it looking like an additon. The owner of this home was particularly pleased with how well this design blends with the original roofline and adds an interesting new shed dormer. Here the addition has not yet been painted to match the existing. Continue reading
A Pastoral Home
In designing this rural home, the owner asked that it bring to mind things one might see out in a country field. I looked to structures such as barns, stables and country churches as inspiration for this design. I combined the proportions of a stable with the look of a stone church. Split faced block which has the look and feel of cut stone was selected for the exterior walls. Prefinished interlocking seam metal was chosen for the roof. The result is a solid low maintenance home with graceful proportions fitting to its environment. The Weru windows from Henselstone Windows and doors of Amissville, VA are of the finest quality. Continue reading
