Midcentury Modern
The Need
The owners were relocating their home offices, their household and their (3) children to College Park from Oakhurst to be closer to Woodward Academy. The new College Park house was a modest, yet very stylized and unique, one level midcentury modern home. It was simply not large enough to accommodate their lifestyles and needed to be doubled in size. Initially they wanted to simply go “straight up” and create a modern farmhouse.
The Process
First, I needed to spend time educating the client as to why their home’s style was historically unique. Taking a well-built Midcentury Modern and turning it into a boxy modern farmhouse was not a optimal direction. This helped them step away from the ‘knee jerk’ reaction to simply copy what they were seeing in Pinterest. Once we established that the strong horizontal lines of a Frank Loyd Wright ‘Prairie Style’ home was a good inspiration, we created a second level design that was subtly ‘set back’ into the existing ‘strong horizontal’ form of the house.
The Results
Instead of ignoring unique details, like corner windows, we embraced them and introduced corner windows on the additions and the new second level. We preserved the overall Horizontal vibe of the home while doubling the size of the house.
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