Located on a pastoral piece of property in Dutchess County, this 200 year old farmhouse oozes with charm and grace. Old timbers line the ceilings, wide floorboards are worn by decades of use, and eccentric moments are scattered throughout. Although stately and proud, the existing home showed its age: walls sagged, floors sloped, and an ill-conceived addition felt like a disjointed accessory. Perhaps most notably, the home lacked any relationship to the beautiful property. Rather, the home cocooned its users in intimate, dark interiors — charming on a snowy winter day, but less so on a glorious summer evening.
In order to add modern living spaces and connect the house to the beautiful property, we designed an addition that remains deferential to the age, grace and layout of the existing home; and orients the interior and exterior of the house towards the pastoral property. We also fortified the existing structure in order to stitch it together to the addition and give it the structural prowess to last another 200 years.
