Location: Seattle, WA Verge Architecture and Design This Bitter Lake house received several major upgrades: a second floor addition, a seismic retro-fit of the first floor, an extension to the existing kitchen, and renovations of the first floor’s interior walls to create a more functional and
Location: Bellevue, WA Atelier Drome Architecture: www.atelierdrome.com This Bellevue home received a new second floor, and a renovation of the entire first floor and the entire basement. All of the interior finishes were replaced and many interior walls were relocated to create a new modern style. At
Location: Seattle, WA Verge Architecture and Design At this Capitol Hill house the kitchen was completely renovated, the master bedroom received a new balcony with French doors, and the front of the house received a modern steel-framed deck. In addition, the entire crawlspace was excavated to
Location: Seattle, WA Atelier Drome Architecture: www.atelierdrome.com This backyard cottage provides much needed additional living space. Rather than build an addition on the existing house, the homeowners preferred to preserve the house's original aesthetic by constructing a separate cottage. The separation allowed the homeowners to
Location: Seattle, WA Verge Architecture and Design For this Ravenna home, the homeowners decided to give their house’s mundane facade an upgrade with modern materials for a sharp new look.
Location: Olympic Pennisula, WA Wittman Estes Architecture: www.wittman-estes.com The new cabin and bunkhouse of this forest getaway are poised on a bluff overlooking the Puget Sound. Floor-to-ceiling windows, flanked by slender steel posts, and flat eaves combine to minimize the structure and maximize the available view.
Location: Sammamish Plateau, WA Wittman Estes Architecture: www.wittman-estes.com This ultra-modern, 5,000 square feet house is a new take on the traditional rambler. Floor-to-ceiling windows and long cantilevered eaves allow the rambler look to be scaled up to a larger house. The house is notched into the hillside,
Location: Seattle, WA Atelier Drome Architecture: www.atelierdrome.com Second Floor additions often look like a new box stacked on a old box, giving the house a very block-like appearance. To hurtle this common pitfall, the architect designed a stepped roof with long eaves, to creating a new aesthetic
Location: Bellevue, WA Atelier Drome Architecture: www.atelierdrome.com This 4,500 square feet residence emerged from the former 2,000 square feet house via expansion of the basement and the first floor, construction of a new second floor, and addition of a new sub-grade two-car garage. All finishes were replaced,
Location: Seattle, WA This Ballard home received a new second floor to better house a growing family. To support the weight of the new second floor and roof, strategically-located concrete pads were added under the existing basement concrete walls to provide foundation reinforcement. The new second