Good Bones
The house itself wasn't worth saving. In any other neighborhood, it would have been a teardown; structurally compromised, beyond reasonable repair. But this was a historic district, which meant the demolition permit wasn't coming. Every original window had to stay exactly where it was. The footprint was fixed.
So we worked with what we had and built around it. The addition expanded the living space in ways the original structure never could have supported, while every new element; the farmhouse kitchen in blue cabinetry, the gingham laundry floor, the globally-sourced home office was designed to feel like it belonged to a house that had always been this way. The windows that couldn't move became organizing principles. The constraints that looked like limitations became the design.
The result is a home that doesn't read as rescued. It reads as considered.
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