Crestwood, guest bathroom elegance

It took almost 2 years to find the right “tear down” (potential-location-price-affordability)

The design program of the house is, besides accommodate a family of two adults and two kids, include a guest room, big exhibition space, art studio and office.

The property found was on a very slopped lot at the edge of the Rock Creek Park. The house was a 1931 “Normand” style house with 14” thick exterior walls of solid Stone. This house has been abandoned for 10 years, so basically was a huge racoon nest full of holes in the roof and in consequence all the interior wood rotten.
After considering several design options, we decided to keep the beautiful and hard to remove solid Stone exterior walls and wrap the design around them, another “green” resource, reuse the existing.
The Project includes a big space (36 x 18 x 14 ft) to be used as a prívate art gallery as well as a living-room, opens to the back to a deck where the woods are.
On the second floor, 4 are the bedrooms. The master bedroom is at the back, on top of the living-room using the rest as a huge green terrace full of plants and a sitting space, again looking towards the Woods. We used 8 foot tall solid Wood doors to avoid having Little pieces of wall above the doors and the 8’ ceiling in the corridors. Windows are solid Wood/aluminum clad, “energy star” rated of course.