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These Gut Renovations Make the Case for Going Big When Remodeling
October 5, 2015
Reworked from top-to-bottom, these historic structures were spared the wrecking ball.
Home to restaurant and dog hotel owner Julio Isaza, this modern Miami residence epitomizes the low-maintenance and breeziness of Florida living. The original loft was about 90% gutted to make room for an approximately 3,400-square-foot place for entertainment, work, and relaxation.
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Originally appeared in A Miami Renovation That Blends Concrete and Rich Wooden Interiors
“Functionality, practicality and elegance are always on my mind. The ultimate goal is to create spatial harmony based on color, textures, etc.” explains Carlos Casteñada of 2C Design.
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Originally appeared in A Miami Renovation That Blends Concrete and Rich Wooden Interiors
On paper, the overhaul of Steve and Colleen Nusinow’s 2,000-square-foot Craftsman-style bungalow in Redondo Beach, California, is a classic empty-nest story: The kids move out, the parents treat themselves to a master suite. But their tale isn’t typical. Like many remodelers, the couple wanted to ditch their cramped bedroom, which faced the street and lacked adequate closet space. In their quest for more room and privacy, the Nusinows turned the house inside out, opening it to the outdoors for entertaining and everyday living.
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Originally appeared in Indoor-Outdoor Bungalow in Redondo Beach
The renovation scheme included recreating the couple’s backyard as a natural extension of their living room.
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Originally appeared in Indoor-Outdoor Bungalow in Redondo Beach
Residents Jonny Bauer and Jill Magid flipped the script on their family home, a former workman’s cottage on the northern edge of Brooklyn. The couple bought the home in June of 2011, then hired local firm Noroof Architects for the renovation. The five-month permitting process was the first stumbling block; during inspections with their architects, engineers, contractors, and city officials, they learned that the light remodel they had anticipated was turning into a major gut job. “But we were so determined to keep the shell,” says Bauer.
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Originally appeared in History Stays Alive in This Brooklyn Home
The original brick front tied the structure to its historical fabric, a main selling point for the couple. In order to shore up the exterior, the architects had to painstakingly add a poured-concrete load-bearing wall into the brick shell.
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Originally appeared in History Stays Alive in This Brooklyn Home
Amidst the pedestrian-friendly maze of leafy streets in New York City’s West Village, LOT-EK, a firm whose designs focus on the creative reuse of industrial materials, inserted a gut-renovated and intensely colorful new home—getting a facade embedded with truck beds past the heritage commission along the way.
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Originally appeared in Village People
The entire house is marked by dramatic changes in color: Though the walls are white, the floors and ceiling swap tones, and pink fluorescent lights give way to a lavender bedroom ceiling.
Originally appeared in Coolest Homes for Artists & Art Collectors
Getting permission to renovate a historically listed town house in London can be trying. Fraher Architects spent months meeting with planning officials before they were given the okay to do “something more than a pastiche of the existing building,” architect Elizabeth Webster says. But the waiting paid off: the formerly dark and disjointed 19th-century residence now lights up the neighborhood at night.
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Originally appeared in A Historic London Building Gets a Modern Update with a Dramatic Staircase
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Originally appeared in A Historic London Building Gets a Modern Update with a Dramatic Staircase
Home to restaurant and dog hotel owner Julio Isaza, this modern Miami residence epitomizes the low-maintenance and breeziness of Florida living. The original loft was about 90% gutted to make room for an approximately 3,400-square-foot place for entertainment, work, and relaxation.
Photo by Juan Silva.
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