These designs for an interior renovation and addition to a historic home on a major street prioritize the expansion of natural daylighting and creating more inviting living spaces throughout the home. A large conservatory and lap pool addition at the rear takes cues from the original proportions and detailing of the original structure but with much more glass and internal openness made possible by modern structural and construction methods.
The conservatory both adds new spaces to the home as well as reconfigures the living and dining areas to create a more functional layout of the living and entertaining areas of the home. Large sliding glass doors slide away to create an expansive indoor-outdoor living arrangement that connects the exterior deck through the new pool and conservatory to the revised to kitchen and dining areas.
While the home already boasts a large skylight over the central staircase, the revised designs improve the function and visibility of that skylight by opening the second floor ceiling to add a new staircase to access the additional square footage in the homes previously unfinished attic loft. This brings natural daylight into three levels of the home, now connected by a grand staircase rising through the center of the home. The finished loft spaces also allowed the creation of a new dressing room above the primary bedroom, which also receives a new skylight and an opening in the floor to connect back down to the bedroom and allow more natural daylight to access the bedroom.
