“It’s on a street with a lot of five-acre, four-acre, estatelike properties, typically more larger houses there, it’s an older street, so everything is fairly dated but there are some newer houses that have been recently built.” In making their final style decision, Ken says that the clients “went for a more, traditional-timeless look on the outside with a little contemporary look mixed into that, too, blending a bit of old with new.” Orienting the house to take advantage of natural sunlight inside while keeping the trees and existing natural landscape intact was a challenge, Kenadds. The new structure needed to fit on the property where another home had previously stood but was demolished to make way for the new home. Coming from an older home that had major issues like frozen pipes in winter, leaking windows, and failing plumbing, Ken says the clients “were adamant” about the new home’s energy efficiency. “So, we went with a completely insulated concrete form system for the entire basement of the house, as well as a high end energy efficient HVAC heating and cooling system.” With their sizable new home, the clients are planning to put their square footage to good use entertaining. “They do a lot of entertaining, so we needed to make sure that we built a space that was conducive for that,” Ken explains. The answer was “a very large great room that flows into their dining room/kitchen” and a wine cellar and bar areas in the basement. DECEMBER 2022
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