Arlington Bungalow
arlington bungalow
PROJECT INFO
Type: Residential
Scope: Renovation/Addition
Location: Arlington, VA
Interior Design:
Moore Architects, PC
Structural Engineer:
Advance Engineers, Ltd.
Photography:
Anice Hoachlander
Awards:
Best Remodel - Southern Living Magazine Home Awards Program 2005
Grand Award - Builder’s Choice Design & Planning Awards; Builder Magazine, October 2004
Grand Award - Custom Home Design Awards; Custom Home Magazine; September/October 2004
Annual Residential Award - The Washingtonian Residential Design Awards; AIA Washington DC; Washingtonian Magazine
Honorable Mention: Modern Transformation: Residential-Preservation Design Award; Arlington County Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board
Merit Award -Remodeling Design Awards; Remodeling Magazine, September 2003
Publications:
2003 Inform; Number 3; Virginia Society AIA; ‘House & Home’
Remodeling Magazine; September 2003; page 98; ‘Merit Award’
Builder Magazine, October 2004, page 184; ‘Grand Award’
Custom Home Magazine; September/October 2004, page 101
Washingtonian Magazine; June 2004, page181
New Arts & Crafts Houses; book; Neill Heath; Collins Design and Grayson Publishing, LLC; Pages 84 - 95
Southern Living Magazine; October 2005, page 150; ‘Best Remodel’
Fine Homebuilding Magazine; Summer, page 56; ‘Houses - Annual Issue’
Fine Homebuilding Magazine; Winter 2008, page 80; ‘Kitchens & Baths - Annual Issue’
Originally built as a modest two-bedroom brick and block rambler in 1951, this house has assumed an entirely new identity, assimilating the early 1900s Craftsman bungalow aesthetic.
The goal was to create a house that truly fit the neighborhood. The renovated house had to fit the bungalow style both outside and inside and double the square footage of the existing house, creating new bedrooms on the second floor, and reorganizing the first floor spaces.
The existing front wall of the house was pulled forward to maximize the existing front yard building setback. A porch that stretched across most of the new front elevation was added, pulling the house closer to the street to match the setbacks of other local homes. This cozy relationship to the street and the public made for a more comfortable and less imposing siting.
