Boyd-Lloyd, APLD, a designer with David Rolston Landscape Architects, worked with the clients to bring some privacy to the front of the house, featuring a wall of windows, and bridge the back of the house to the pool, which is accessed across the driveway.
#Skylights for metal roofs windows#
Skylights in the new ceiling bring light to the old kitchen windows and skylights.Īt the head of the new stairs, a book-lined sitting area is the hub between the master suite, home office, and other bedrooms.Īn urban setting in the very desirable M-Streets / Greenland Hills section of Dallas, a circa 1920's cottage was updated to a more modern feel, but needed a landscape to fit.
At the living room, a new angled bay brings light and a feeling of spaciousness to what had been a rather narrow room.Īt the back of the house, a six-sided family room with a vaulted ceiling wraps around the existing kitchen. The existing dining room and stair hall were pushed out with new glazed walls to create a bright and expansive interior. So we kept the existing structure as a starting point for additions that would maximize the potential beauty and value of the siteĪ highly detailed Gambrel-roofed gable reaches out to the street with a welcoming entry porch. Tear-downs had become standard in the area, but the house was in excellent condition and had a lovely recent kitchen. This project began with a handsome center-entrance Colonial Revival house in a neighborhood where land values and house sizes had grown enormously since my clients moved there in the 1980s.
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