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Client Goals: Finish the basement space to include a bedroom for accommodating family and friends for sleepovers and holiday fun. Timeless, fun decor was a must! Our Solution: We designed and built custom cabinetry to create unique sleeping spaces...
Client Goals: Repair mold and moisture damage and improve the climate control in this 500 square-foot, above-garage bonus room. Our Solution: We tore everything out down to the stud framing, then built it back up with moisture protection and both...
Client Goals: Improve the house facade’s curb appeal. Our Solution: Overgrown shrubbery was pulled out to showcase new graded landscaping and stone-faced foundation. The tiny front stoop was enlarged to a wide, metal-roofed portico to frame the new...
Client Goals: Enclose an open deck area for more year-round, all-weather functionality. Our Solution: We roofed the porch with an outward facing-gable for a picturesque framed view of the yard. Adding a white tongue & groove vaulted ceiling keeps...
Client Goals: Remodel the master suite in the lower level of the home in a contemporary style. Our Solution: This lower-level master suite got new flooring, a relaxing color scheme, awesome barn doors, and all-new plumbing and lighting. Barn doors...
Client Goals: Open up and update the first floor of the home Our Solution: We removed support columns to open up the space between the family room and the eating area, replacing the colums with a beam to maintain the structural integrity. The...
Client Goals: Enclose an underutilized 21’x15′ patio space to make it more functional year-round. Our Solution: The screenporch has a 14′ vaulted ceiling with skylights, 9′ high walls, and wide expanses of custom screening to enclose the space, keep...
Client Goals: Remove existing back deck and install new screen porch with an attached deck. Our Solution: We replaced the back deck with this soaring screened porch, with a new attached deck. This expansive space provides a comfortable outdoor great...
Client Goal: A total renovation to change the floor plan and allow for an island, while making the flow better. Our Solution: We took out the peninsula floor plan and created a large butcher block island improve the efficiency, storage space ...
Client Goals: To stay in the home they know and love, filled with photos of annual family reunions. They needed to make the first floor compliant with ADA standards (Americans with Disabilities Act) to accommodate a veteran who now needs...
Client Goals: Finish several rooms in the basement area of the home in a traditional style. Our Solution: We created a pub area with stone bar and backbar, an office, a game room, a theater room, and a full bath. We finished the floor in an...
Client Goals: Remodel the master bath for better integration of the shower, water closet, sitting area, and walk-in closet. Our Solution: We incorporated three separate spaces (bathroom, sitting area, and closet) by moving doorways and walls to make...
Client Goals: Make the kitchen bigger, and more usable, in a traditional style. Our Solution: The formerly small kitchen was expanded into space once taken up by a screened porch — which meant adding a structural beam extending into the new laundry...
Client Goals: Remodel two bathrooms (a basement guest bath and the master bath). Our Solution: The new master bath makes more dramatic use of the corner windows and skylight. Grey wood-plank tile brings emphasis to the white cabinetry,...
Client Goals: Take out the old kitchen and open up the space to adjoining rooms, creating a more united style throughout. Our Solution: After demolishing the existing kitchen, we added new structural elements to reinforce the open spaces, creating a...
The covered patio sits outside your daylight basement. It doesn’t have its own roof – it has a first-floor addition, or a porch, above it. So, lots of shade, lots of posts (holding up the addition). Depending upon the orientation of your house and side yard, you...
We tend to think about our house insulation in the winter, when the furnace keeps cycling on (or not), or when everyone’s bundled up in layers of sweatshirts and hats, whining. This is when we want insulation to act like a sub-zero sleeping bag, retaining our body...
Greathouse craftsman Rod starts from scratch. This 48" wide barndoor’s needs a rustic feel, so Rod uses spruce with knots to give it character. The design has three 12x17 windows across the top, and two recessed 18”x 50” flat panels in the body. The door is built...
Who had the bright idea of putting a wall here? Sometimes your space just doesn’t work out, no matter how many times you move the furniture. Sometimes you need to think a bit more radically. What if you just move that wall? Or take it out entirely? Whoa. But this...
We are so thankful to be hard at work in this beautiful area and especially at this time of year. A great place to raise a family. GreatHouse. Great...