The right architect and contractor will enhance a historic home’s aesthetic integrity.
The true value of the renovation of an old house is not being able to tell that any alterations were made. Architect Carol Tink-Fox chose to put the addition on Kara Kosinski’s garage instead of on the main house to maintain what she calls the “cute cottage character” of the historic home. “By making a separate small building, we kept the new space historically in context,” she says.
Here is what she did to link the past and the present:
The true value of the renovation of an old house is not being able to tell that any alterations were made. Architect Carol Tink-Fox chose to put the addition on Kara Kosinski’s garage instead of on the main house to maintain what she calls the “cute cottage character” of the historic home. “By making a separate small building, we kept the new space historically in context,” she says.
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Here is what she did to link the past and the present:
- A steep-pitched roof and attic were added to the flat-roofed garage, which also has a historic designation.
- The home’s exterior color scheme was repeated on the addition and garage.
- Heavy-timber beams along the breezeway with diagonal braces evoke the feel of those of the main house.
- Windows and French doors open the guest room to the beautifully landscaped backyard. Because the garage is on a slab, unlike the house, there are no steps to go down to enter the garden.
- The old swing-style garage doors, which looked like barn doors, were replicated. Contractor Scot Lewis custom built the fully weather-proofed doors using tongue and grove pine with solid brass oil-rubbed bronze hinges.
By Nancy A. Ruhling
Photography by Jaimee Itagaki
Styled by Molly Kosinski and Hillary Black
Shared By Cottages And Bungalows
Photography by Jaimee Itagaki
Styled by Molly Kosinski and Hillary Black
Shared By Cottages And Bungalows
