Entire
House
Utah Avenue Addition
FINALIST
This challenging project was
for a long time customer who is a successful artist
in northwest Washington. The artist wanted to expand
his existing house in many areas in order to meet his
professional and personal needs.
First was the need for an additional studio space off
of the main floor. The owner and the assistants had
outgrown their space in the basement.
The second need was for an expanded guest/ office
space on the upper floor, which meant adding a second
dormer to match the existing one and extending the
end of the house out over the planned studio space.
Another need of the client was to renovate the existing
kitchen including an eat-in/ breakfast room and a mudroom.
The last requirement was to open up the center of
the house allowing much more light into the entire
house. The expansion of the center stairway was designed
to accommodate the new scale of the house. Installing
eight Velux skylights with remote controlled blinds
and venting possessed a challenging structural and
logistic problem with the client living and working
in the house during construction.
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