The client’s request was quite common - a typical 2800 sf builder home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living space, and den. However, their desire was for this to be “anything but common.” The result is an innovative update on the production home for the modern era, and serves as a direct counterpoint to the neighborhood and its more conventional suburban housing stock, which focus views to the backyard and seeks to nullify the unique qualities and challenges of topography and the natural environment. The Terraced House cautiously steps down the site’s steep topography, resulting in a more nuanced approach to site development than cutting and filling that is so common in the builder homes of the area. The compact house opens up in very focused views that capture the natural wooded setting, while masking the sounds and views of the directly adjacent roadway. The main living spaces face this major roadway, effectively flipping the typical orientation of a suburban home, and the main entrance pulls visitors up to the second floor and halfway through the site, providing a sense of procession and privacy absent in the typical suburban home. Clad in a custom rain screen that reflects the wood of the surrounding landscape - while providing a glimpse into the interior tones that are used. The stepping “wood boxes” rest on a series of concrete walls that organize the site, retain the earth, and - in conjunction with the wood veneer panels - provide a subtle organic texture to the composition. The interior spaces wrap around an interior knuckle that houses public zones and vertical circulation - allowing more private spaces to exist at the edges of the building. The windows get larger and more frequent as they ascend the building, culminating in the upstairs bedrooms that occupy the site like a tree house - giving views in all directions. The Terraced House imports urban qualities to the suburban neighborhood and seeks to elevate the typical approach to production home construction, while being more in tune with modern family living patterns. Overview: Elm Grove Size: 2,800 sf, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Completion Date: September 2014 Services: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Interior Consultants: Amy Carman Design

Lower Cabinets Door Style: Vienna Construction: EVO Full-Access/Frameless Surface Type: Textured Melamine Color: Licorice Groovz Upper Cabinets Door Style: Milan Construction: EVO Full-Access/Frameless Wood Type: Cherry Finish: Truffle With a homeowner's zealous desire for visual uniformity, this kitchen required unique answers to necessary storage needs. Hidden pullouts for utensils and cookware, deep-drawer organization for dishware, and drawer refrigeration units all answer this kitchen's functional storage needs, while staying true to the desire for specific visual style and symmetry.

two-tone R-BLADE™ motorized louvered pergola, allowing homeowners to use the space throughout the four seasons. This motorized louvered pergola satisfies their desire to entertain guests, allowing them to enjoy meals al fresco and socialize with friends year-round. Now, they can sip local beers at sunset while watching football or golf games on the TV outside. Product Choice Product: R-BLADE™ pergola – Motorized Louvered Roof Color: White pergola with dark gray/bronze louvers. Options: Accessory beam with fan, LED lighting, and weather sensors.

two-tone R-BLADE™ motorized louvered pergola, allowing homeowners to use the space throughout the four seasons. This motorized louvered pergola satisfies their desire to entertain guests, allowing them to enjoy meals al fresco and socialize with friends year-round. Now, they can sip local beers at sunset while watching football or golf games on the TV outside. Product Choice Product: R-BLADE™ pergola – Motorized Louvered Roof Color: White pergola with dark gray/bronze louvers. Options: Accessory beam with fan, LED lighting, and weather sensors.

All-round comfort for this model that, through its shapes, emphasizes a reassuring and fascinating style. The headboard is provided with a friction movement system that allows you to recline the backrest to the desired position respecting the ergonomics and optimizing the useful space. Maori offers a 360 degree view given that it is perfectly finished on all four sides.

two-tone R-BLADE™ motorized louvered pergola, allowing homeowners to use the space throughout the four seasons. This motorized louvered pergola satisfies their desire to entertain guests, allowing them to enjoy meals al fresco and socialize with friends year-round. Now, they can sip local beers at sunset while watching football or golf games on the TV outside. Product Choice Product: R-BLADE™ pergola – Motorized Louvered Roof Color: White pergola with dark gray/bronze louvers. Options: Accessory beam with fan, LED lighting, and weather sensors.

Lower Cabinets Door Style: Vienna Construction: EVO Full-Access/Frameless Surface Type: Textured Melamine Color: Licorice Groovz Upper Cabinets Door Style: Milan Construction: EVO Full-Access/Frameless Wood Type: Cherry Finish: Truffle With a homeowner's zealous desire for visual uniformity, this kitchen required unique answers to necessary storage needs. Hidden pullouts for utensils and cookware, deep-drawer organization for dishware, and drawer refrigeration units all answer this kitchen's functional storage needs, while staying true to the desire for specific visual style and symmetry.

Bamboo cabinetry combined with concrete countertops and updated lighting provides the owners with the modern aesthetic they desired. Current, green building products and principles were utilized in a way that harmonizes with the original architectural style of the home.

Finished product w/white marble chips. Homeowner desired to install artificial lawn themselves. Lee's Home Services was hired to build wall and and bring project surface right up to the very point where lawn is to be laid, which is what we did here.

two-tone R-BLADE™ motorized louvered pergola, allowing homeowners to use the space throughout the four seasons. This motorized louvered pergola satisfies their desire to entertain guests, allowing them to enjoy meals al fresco and socialize with friends year-round. Now, they can sip local beers at sunset while watching football or golf games on the TV outside. Product Choice Product: R-BLADE™ pergola – Motorized Louvered Roof Color: White pergola with dark gray/bronze louvers. Options: Accessory beam with fan, LED lighting, and weather sensors.

two-tone R-BLADE™ motorized louvered pergola, allowing homeowners to use the space throughout the four seasons. This motorized louvered pergola satisfies their desire to entertain guests, allowing them to enjoy meals al fresco and socialize with friends year-round. Now, they can sip local beers at sunset while watching football or golf games on the TV outside. Product Choice Product: R-BLADE™ pergola – Motorized Louvered Roof Color: White pergola with dark gray/bronze louvers. Options: Accessory beam with fan, LED lighting, and weather sensors.

two-tone R-BLADE™ motorized louvered pergola, allowing homeowners to use the space throughout the four seasons. This motorized louvered pergola satisfies their desire to entertain guests, allowing them to enjoy meals al fresco and socialize with friends year-round. Now, they can sip local beers at sunset while watching football or golf games on the TV outside. Product Choice Product: R-BLADE™ pergola – Motorized Louvered Roof Color: White pergola with dark gray/bronze louvers. Options: Accessory beam with fan, LED lighting, and weather sensors.

two-tone R-BLADE™ motorized louvered pergola, allowing homeowners to use the space throughout the four seasons. This motorized louvered pergola satisfies their desire to entertain guests, allowing them to enjoy meals al fresco and socialize with friends year-round. Now, they can sip local beers at sunset while watching football or golf games on the TV outside. Product Choice Product: R-BLADE™ pergola – Motorized Louvered Roof Color: White pergola with dark gray/bronze louvers. Options: Accessory beam with fan, LED lighting, and weather sensors.

G&W Electric has produced high-voltage electrical equipment for over 50 years. Throughout that time, they have continually seen substantial expansion of product lines and increases in overall product volume, making the desire for a renovation all the more necessary. With help from Epstein, their 370,000-square-foot building in Bolingbrook, Illinois was transformed into a LEED manufacturing facility that meets the company's immediate and future space needs.

Take a deep breath and live in the moment. Homeowners desire the balance outdoor spaces provide with comfort, function, fresh air and beauty. InsideOut® underdeck product finishes any deck to create a beautiful, finished ceiling for any outdoor living space.

Each custom frame design is first designed with the client’s desires in mind.
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In a rightsizing move, the homeowners had recently moved into an existing home in a very desirable location. Although much about the home was up to their standards, the master bath was not. It was dated and the style did not meet with the homeowner’s design sense.

Situated in a quiet gated community, this home featured a compact backyard that needed a serious makeover. The client desired a complete outdoor environment, including an outdoor kitchen and a nice sized pool and spa to enjoy year-round. The finished product features a stunning contemporary design, including an expansive, attached outdoor kitchen, travertine paving, soothing water feature and spa. Other unique features include an outdoor shower and a side yard pathway to the pool supply storage closet.

Finished product w/white marble chips. Homeowner desired to install artificial lawn themselves. Lee's Home Services was hired to build wall and and bring project surface right up to the very point where lawn is to be laid, which is what we did here.