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A 3,300 s.f. complete renovation and addition to a
stone house on 8 acres originally used as a dairy
barn as part of a larger estate. The house is used
by a family of four as a weekend house. Their
primary residence is in downtown Chicago.
The work included removal of an existing sunroom and
addition of a larger sunroom made of cedar structure
and ceilings clad in cedar beadboard. A small entry
piece was also added to the front of the house to
demarcate an entry that was previously ill-defined
leaving the laundry room as the main entry.
The former two-car garage was transformed into a
family/t.v. room incorporating three pairs of French
doors where the former garage doors were located.
This is the only room that contains a t.v.
All rooms have access to the outdoors through
incorporation of French doors. This was determined
since the family uses the house in this manner and
since the window sills were only 14” above the
floor.
The challenge of this project was working with
existing masonry openings as much as possible since
the stone material that was used to clad the
exterior of the building could not be found to
match. All new addition pieces were designed in
natural cedar to be stained to enhance the rustic
quality of the split rubble façade. |
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| Location |
Barrington
Hills, IL |
| Design |
2002-2003 |
| Construction |
2004 |
| Design
Principal |
Ann Clark |
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Project Team |
Lane Fowlie |
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Erin Bahrke |
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Interior Design |
Jim Luigs
New York, NY |
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Contractor |
Fricano
Construction Company |
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Landscape Architecture |
American
Gardens |
| Photography |
Linda Oyama Bryan |
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