When the end of construction is in site and my clients inquire about a landscaping plan, I simply can’t resist but to put a rough sketch and plan together as a “Housewarming Gift”. If you have been watching the New Englander Renovation, you know that the last month is when all the “pretty” things… Continue reading New Englander Renovation Gets its Landscaping Plan
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How Landscape Design Impacts Architecture
Are you clear on how your landscape design impact architecture and vice-versa? Before I start a project with a client, we discuss their goals and lifestyle for how the house will function for them. As part of the architectural design, I also consider the landscape design. How will people walk into the house? How… Continue reading How Landscape Design Impacts Architecture
It’s time to plant your annuals! YAY!
While perennials are great because they come back every year getting larger and larger until you divide them, annuals are just going to last for one season and enter the garden with a bang! Annuals add height variations, color, and texture. My favorites annuals are: Ascot Rainbow (Spurge) Salvia Farinacea ‘Victoria Blue’ Angel’s Trumpet… Continue reading It’s time to plant your annuals! YAY!
North Mill Pond View
CLIENT PROFILE The homeowner is an engineer and worked in framing during college, so he is more than capable and very thoughtful about the construction process acting as the GC. He and his wife bought the 1900 2.5 stories, New Englander, with 1,534sf in 2012 mostly for the large, beautiful lot located right on North… Continue reading North Mill Pond View
A Cape Expansion to Meet Every Need
CLIENT PROFILE These clients are from Andover, MA, and own a large family-run business that they are getting ready to retire from. They bought their York Harbor, Maine home in 2007 as a summer home and with full expectations to renovate at some point and they also have a home in Naples, FL. The goal… Continue reading A Cape Expansion to Meet Every Need
How to Make a 90’s Home into a Modern Farmhouse
CLIENT PROFILE These clients are part of “Urban Flights 2020”. For this young couple with two small children, Covid entered their home in Southie as Daycare shut down and both working in Corporate America were suddenly working from home. She grew up in Vermont and he grew up in Maine and his brother was a… Continue reading How to Make a 90’s Home into a Modern Farmhouse
Tiny New Englander Grows Two-Fold
CLIENT PROFILE These clients are both working professionals, he is an electrical engineer and extremely capable to build just about anything. He bought the 1860’s 1-3/4 high New Englander in 2016 as a “fixer-upper” and he has renovated this 956 sqft home on his entirely on his own. We started working together in May 2020.… Continue reading Tiny New Englander Grows Two-Fold
How Pattern and Materials connect Interiors to Exteriors
Are you looking to create a home that is connected and cohesive from the exterior to the interior? In the Steel Farmhouse, we used very specific items to pull everything together intentionally. Steel – structural steel makes for an efficiently built home and provides the color black to use as a focal and clean… Continue reading How Pattern and Materials connect Interiors to Exteriors
Are you Prepared to Think Outside of the Box?
Every custom home brings with it the possibility of thinking outside of the box and the Steel Farmhouse is no exception. As a matter of fact, it’s a nice blend of typical elements that make a home functional with a custom twist. Here are some of the features that are creative, functional, and outside of… Continue reading Are you Prepared to Think Outside of the Box?
Why it is so powerful to repeat a material throughout your home
Have you heard that you should be repeating materials throughout your home, but you aren’t sure why or how? Let’s review how this can take shape by exploring the Steel Farmhouse. In this home, steel is a primary material that is consistently repeated. Steel is used in the following areas. monorail staircase, cantilevered 2nd-floor… Continue reading Why it is so powerful to repeat a material throughout your home