Our clients asked us the renovate their beautiful 1880’s shingle style home by adding a family room, master bedroom to the back of the house along with a new mudroom, kitchen and front porch/car port. The challenge was that this was a long linear floor plan, which we punctuated with…

This 1870’s Victorian was originally a school house but lost its tower at the turn of the century to fire. We were asked to replicate the tower from a 100-year-old napkin sketch and to create a carport with a family dining room kitchen addition. The choice of a curved zinc…

Newton is populated by hundreds of amazing examples of early American Architecture. Our client purchased this home, which required a total renovation/restoration. It also was complicated by huge grade changes that proved challenging in the design of a new addition for a below grade 2-car garage, mudroom and rear addition…

Our client was determined to restore this historic home to its original splendor. The biggest challenge was moving a barn large barn 30’ to enable the programmatic changes to the plans. The barn housed Newton’s fire department horse team of the 1880’s. Many of the original and unique historic details…

This unique 1860’s Victorian cottage has a compact floor plan which our client wanted to added a first floor master bedroom, master bathroom, dressing closet, first floor office and kitchen alteration. Having worked on this house 10 years earlier, I was familiar with the challenges. Above the master bedroom, we…

My client wanted to fully reorganize the spacial relationships of the existing house by adding a 2 story garage/mudroom and a new family room, kitchen mudroom addition and all new bathrooms and third story renovation. This was a plain boxy looking house, which was transformed by a series of Architectural…

When our client purchase this Wellesley home there was no formal façade to the street. The front portico and gracious steps were added in an effort to provide a “presence” to the street. The challenge was to identify the proper scale and detail to the front facade and at the…

The challenge of this renovation restoration was to work with the historic commission and blend the new program that proposed multiple additions of a 2 story kitchen master bedroom suite, mudroom and family room/new patio to the back of the house and retained the same historic character of the front…

Our home was on the Newton Historic Registry as the best example of an 1860’s Mansard Cottage. When my father passed, I needed to build an addition for my aging mother. In 2010, we received the Newton Historic Preservation award for the 2 story “tempieto” like addition. The zinc coated…

This brick Georgian home was doubled in size by adding a large 3 story addition that houses a new basement playroom, first floor mudroom, kitchen and family room deck with master bedroom suite above. The interior of the existing house and new addition was seamlessly joined by a dining room,…

This home was “House of the Year” in 1940 by House and Garden. My clients wanted a first floor master suite, family room and kitchen with a new 2-car garage. I believe by paying special attention to matching the roof pitches and Spartan character of the exterior we were able…

My clients unfortunately lost their 1930’s Royal Barry Wills home to fire and requested that we design a “new old” house. We focused on dormering the roof in a similar 30’s way but with 8’-6” ceiling heights and an open plan. Large light wells were designed into the basement foundation…

A radically sloping site provided a challenge to adding an addition for a new grand stair vertically linking the floors, a new kitchen/family room/deck design and a playroom at grade. We focused on matching the exterior details of this turn of the century home in order to make a seamless…

This was a small Gambrel Cape that was expanded to meet the program needs of a young expanding family. We put a lot of emphasis on defining the spaces on the first floor but provide the width and openness that expressed a more contemporary usage. The kitchen, family room, window…

This is a new cottage designed to match the Architecture of the original Estate buildings. This was a gardener’s cottage and required extensive review and approval by the Newton Chestnut Hill Historic Commission. The wood shingle roof and pudding stone details serve to integrate the design.

We were commissioned to add an addition to the back of this center entrance slate roof colonial. There is a new master bedroom suite, kitchen and family room, mudroom and expanded garage. The simple but elegant lines of this home enable us to match the existing exterior detailing and blend…

We added a new kitchen, mudroom and 2nd floor Master suite to this beautiful Queen Anne Victorian. The Carrera marble counter tops and traditional kitchen cabinetry add a timeless feel to this gracious home.

This was a total renovation down to bare framing throughout. This Garrison Colonial was situated in a local La Selle College Historic District in Newton and required an extensive series of meetings and negotiations to successfully accomplish the owners’ goals.

1940’s Tudors are common in Newton and they all present special challenges in matching brick and roof rafter details in order to make additions appear seamless. From the outside we mimicked the traditional appearance however on the inside we created a contemporary kitchen family room addition.