Ranch Style Redux

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

2015 AIA Georgia Design Awards | People's Choice Awards Voting

The 2015 AIA Georgia Design Awards are here, and voting is open for the People's Choice Awards! Be sure to vote for Ranch Style Redux in the categories of "Renovation Projects" and "Residential Projects!" Voting is open until 5:00 pm Friday, March 27. You may vote here for one project per category in a 24 hour period.

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2015 AIA Georgia Design Awards | People's Choice Awards Voting

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Before and After Comparison

The pictures of the house are in! The final product matches the proposed design quite nicely.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Garage Door

The door provided and installed by DoorSmith (http://www.doorsmith.com) is outstanding: 20' wide w/ 2x 6 garapa boards finish.

The overhead door & garapa board seams are barely visible.

The door after the garapa has been finished.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

The Lamp

Robert Cain, designed & built a custom lamp for the RanchStyle Redux Residence as a gift for the homeowners.

Monday, June 30, 2014

Street facade

The landscape wall garapa sign is almost complete: waiting for the light to be connected and the house numbers to be installed.

Friday, June 13, 2014

Progress, schedule

The construction is almost complete.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Details

Master Bathroom is still "work-in-progress", but the countertop, sink & faucet were installed a few days ago.

Trellis

The crew is installing the garapa trellis today! We used steel tubes & plates as a support frame and the garapa trim was precut and sealed prior to installation.

Railings

The railing cables arrived on site and the crew will install them in the next few days. can't wait to share the final look.

Metal tubes & frames

Feeney Cables

Insulation & R-values

One the feature of this renovation, is that the existing house & the additions are very well insulated and air tight. To achieve this, we removed the existing wall & ceiling batt insulation and used spray-foam insulation in between the roof rafters, blow-in spider insulation in the exterior walls and spray- foam insulation on the exterior crawl space walls. The R-values meet the new International Energy Conversation Codes requirements. The blower door test (to verify how air-tight the house is) will be performed at the end of this week, and we will share the results with you.

Blow-in spider insulation

Friday, May 16, 2014

Floors

The owners loved their existing oak flooring. We left some areas intact, but had to remove parts of it during demolition. The crew salvaged and reinstalled the existing floor back, sanded the entire flooring and applied a fresh coat of clear stain. The floor came with the original house and how it's a part of the their "new" home.

Details

The custom kitchen cabinets are almost complete. Note the Hafele hardware and accessories like pull-out pantry, spice rack and trash cans.

Materials, details

During demolition, we saved the brick veneer, and a few months ago we repurposed it by building a beautiful side yard brick patio. To connect the brick patio with the backyard we used large pieces of Crab Orchard Stone (to match the low stone walls in the project).

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Details: cantilevered west addition

We extended the existing house to the west, and aligned it with the setback line. The added interior spaces provides a larger Master Closet, a master shower and a larger Guest Bedroom. To create a floating effect, for support we used the existing west foundation walls, and cantilevered the structure with (4) 4x4 steel posts.