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| The sunroom addition and enlarged breakfast room blend seamlessly with the existing home. After photos by Scott Wang Photography |
Owners of this french country home were not pleased with their less-than-thoughtful existing sunroom addition, which amounted to what SawHorse project manager John Patterson calls a "giant, cedar octagon plant room." It did not blend with the home's stucco exterior, and because its only connection to the home was through a set of double doors, it didn't carry natural light throughout the home.
For their new sunroom, it was essential that the homeowners have a flat area for their young grandchildren to play. Their lush garden and dense surrounding forestry would be a backdrop, and they also wanted to incorporate a grilling area for entertaining.
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The new sunroom is both leisurely and lofty. It features vaulted, 15-foot ceilings with two skylights. Together with the French doors that lead to the patio and the Palladian windows that anchor each end of the family room, the much-needed natural light streams in. Oak flooring and custom fans finish the space.
The portico provides an additional and less-formal entrance to the home, a nice alternative to entering from the garage, which is what the customers had done previously. An extra closet allows what the owners call a "plastic explosion" of toys to be contained for easy access.
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"With this addition, and by enlarging the breakfast room, we created a nicer flow for the entire lower level and a better connection with the back yard, which had a really nice water feature that can now be appreciated while inside the house," says SawHorse Interior Designer Maribeth Gaines. The $235,000 project was completed in about four months.
"Projects like this are great not just because of the results, but because they show how clients, project managers and builders can work together well," Patterson says. "These clients where engaged and gave us objectives throughout, which helped us know that we were constantly meeting expectations, not just at the beginning of the process. We worked together as a team."
