This French Provincial house was designed for a family of five and is located between Princeton and Pennington on Elm Ridge Road.

The style was introduced to America after World War I, when soldiers, who has viewed the grand chateaux and bucolic farmhouses in rural France returned and built homes in a similar style. The heyday of French Provincial homes occurred in the 1920s and continues today as a preference of those desiring a home built of “noble materials”, meaning real building products.

Balance and symmetry are the dominant characteristics of this revival French Provincial design. The façade of the main structure is essentially flat with a centered front door. All the rectangular windows have operable painted wood shutters. The exterior walls are finished with smooth stucco and accented in copper, slate and natural smooth stone sections. Windows and chimneys are symmetrical and perfectly balanced. Defining features include the steep hip roof; Juliet balconies; rectangle doors; arched openings; and double French windows with shutters. Second-story window locations are defined by the first floor arrangement of doors and windows.

The residence is comprised of the following:

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: Black walnut wide plank flooring, plaster walls, painted drywall walls, pearwood paneling, coffered ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Marble tile flooring and walls and marble slab countertops in Bathrooms.

• 2nd Floor: Random black walnut strip flooring, plaster walls, painted drywall walls, coffered ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Marble tile flooring and walls and marble slab countertops in Bathrooms.

Exterior Materials:

• Stucco on poured-in-place exterior walls with a slate tile roof. Copper gutters and downspouts. Limestone detail and coining at all plan figures.

Ecological Considerations:

• Mechanized sliding screens to minimize heat gain on both the southwest and northeast sides

• Geothermal Heating and Cooling

• Basalt Flooring

• Use of Bioswales in the landscaping of the site

• Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.

Stories: 2 + Basement + unfinished Attic

Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen: 1 set

Bedrooms: 5

Au Pair Bedroom: 1

Baths: 5 + 1 WC

Office: 1

Art Gallery: 1

Library: 1

Terrace: 1

Veranda: 1

Garage: 3 car detached

Width: 50’-9”

Depth: 17’-8”

Ceiling Heights:

• Main Area: 10’-0” to 12’-0”

• Bedrooms: 9’-0” Average

Total SF: 6,902 sf

This Modern American Colonial residence is located near New Preston, Connecticut, at the southern edge of the Berkshire Mountains, in northwestern part of the State. The house is a quiet retreat for a couple from New York City with spectacular views in all directions.

The traditional form of the American Colonial house is flanked on either side by distinctive shapes:, to the right a tower that contains the Master Bedroom and a domed semicircle that is an Office, and on the opposite side an octagon, that is a screened-in Porch.

The house proper is similar to the homes that the colonists lived in back in England: simple, rectangular, two stories, and demurely symmetrical. The exterior is clad with painted wood siding with an exaggerated front door and large multi-paned windows and a large white-washed brick chimney.

Because the clients are avid readers, may walls of the house interior are lined with bookcases that define various spaces. The home also features a Breakfast Room expansive views of the exterior landscape. Operable windows and sliding doors provide ventilation, while deep overhangs to the south provide shelter from sun and rain.

The residence is comprised of the following:

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: 2-1/4” random oak flooring, some plaster ceilings, painted drywall walls, pearwood paneling, coffered ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble slab countertops in Bathrooms.

• 2nd Floor: 2-1/4” random oak flooring, some plaster ceilings, painted drywall walls, pearwood paneling, coffered ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble slab countertops in Bathrooms.

Exterior Materials:

• Cement parged concrete masonry foundation with painted wood siding walls and 5-1/2” exposure red cedar shingle roof. White aluminum gutters and downspouts. Whitewashed brick chimney with limestone copings. Aluminum roofs at octagonal Porch, Breakfast Room and Office roofs.

Ecological Considerations:

• Rainwater collection system

• Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.

Stories: 2 + partial Basement + Attic

Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen: 1 set

Breakfast Room: 1

Bedrooms: 4

Baths: 3 + 1 WC

Office: 1

Library: 1

Porch: 1

Terrace: 1

Garage: 2 car

House Proper Width: 50’-0”

House Proper Depth: 24’-10”

Ceiling Heights:

• Main Area: 10’-0” to 12’-0”

• Tower Bedroom: 18’-0”

• 2nd Floor Bedrooms: 11’-0”

Total SF: 3,640 sf exclusive of Garage & Breezeways

This project concerns the conversion of an existing Gothic inspired barn to become a single family dwelling. The family, a real estate investment banker and his wife, a master violin teacher, and 4 children, bought the barn as is, on a defunct farm of 38 acres.

The barn is located off of Route 518 near Hopewell, NJ, and had been in use since being built in the early 20th century.

The timber-framed barn contains a variety of posts, beams, laminated curved rafters and timber floor joist, that consume the interior space of the structure. The first floor internal column spacing 10’ on center. As a result, the plan was designed to limit the number of internal walls so as to keep the interior as open as possible. Undoubtedly, the timber frame of the barn as well as the siding was cut from large stands of red oak, beech, ash and some other hardwood trees.

The Gothic-arch rafters are made of longer lengths of boards bent into the curved shape. The arch allows for the second floor, (the former haymow), of the barn to span the entire width without any roof supports.

Prior to conversion construction, the barn was fully cleaned by a disaster recovery firm, which resulted in a beautiful volume of wooden structural members and distressed wood surfaces.

The 1st Floor contains the usual spaces of a family residence with the Kitchen fronting onto the South side and the Living Room looking out to the North.

The 2nd Floor central joist framing was removed to allow for the arched rafters to be seen and to provide for an overlook to the spaces below. This floor contains all the bedrooms and bathrooms.

The three new additions on the West side of the structure were added to provide two Guest Rooms and a Reading Room. On the opposite side a new addition was added as an Office that attaches to the existing silo. These additions incorporate a stone base and board and batten siding to match the main structure’s materials and are capped with new aluminum roofs.

The existing terra-cotta tile silo was re-sheathed with insulation and an aluminum skin.

The residence is comprised of the following:

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: 4-1/2” wide oak flooring, stained concrete flooring, painted drywall walls, sycamore paneling, drywall ceilings and exposed structure. Ceramic tile and limestone floors and countertops in Bathrooms.

• 2nd Floor: Refinished existing oak flooring, painted drywall walls, drywall ceilings and exposed structure. Ceramic tile and limestone floors and countertops in Bathrooms.

Exterior Materials:

• Princeton stone 1st Floor base walls with 2x6 wood studs backup, 10” painted board and batten on 2X6 wood studs, and red cedar shake roof. White metal gutters and downspouts.

Ecological Considerations:

• Geothermal Heating and Cooling

• Use of Bioswales in the landscaping of the site’s gardens and lawn

• Rainwater conservation system

• Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.

Stories: 2 + partial Basement

Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen: 1 set

Mudroom: 1 with W/D closet

Bedrooms: 5

Baths: 6 + 1 WC

Office: 1 + Loft

Library & Reading Room: 1

Great Room: 1

Terrace: 1

Garage: 3 car Out Building

Width: 70’-7”

Depth: 46’-3”

Ceiling Heights:

• 1st Floor: 17’-0”

• 2nd Floor: 11’-0”

• Center: 41’-6”

Total SF: 7,463 sf

This project involves the design of an English Country House for a family of five in Princeton, NJ. with expressed traditional English building methods; roughcast cement walls, sash windows, dormers, gables, steep-sloped roofs, and tall articulated chimneys.

The white rendered house with its blond limestone window and door accents and sweeping grey slate roofs combined clarity and simplicity with an appreciation of natural materials. That aesthetic is a simple one and provides for a composed and elegant form.

The entry foyer is oak paneled without subtle mouldings. To one side is the Dining Room more simplified oak paneling wainscot and to the other side an oak paneled Office. The geometric staircase leads to the upstairs. There, the corridor bridge link all of the upstairs bedrooms and and looks down onto the Living Room with it’s shallow tiled bowed fireplace.

The residence is comprised of the following:

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: English oak plank flooring, limestone detailing, patterned concrete flooring, painted drywall walls, oak paneling, mahogany paneling, coffered ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and limestone in Bathrooms.

• 2nd Floor: Random oak flooring, painted drywall walls, oak paneling, drywall ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and limestone in Bathrooms.

Exterior Materials:

• Roughcast cement finish on cast-in-place concrete, black slate roofing, white metal gutters and downspouts. Limestone detailing at exterior walls involving brackets, headers, bases and cornices. Cast stone sills at windows.

Ecological Considerations:

• Geothermal Heating and Cooling

• Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.

Stories: 2 + Basement

Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen: 1 set

Bedrooms: 4

Au Pair Bedroom: 1

Baths: 5 + 1/2 WC

Office/Library: 1

Play Areas: 2

Laundry Room: 1

Terrace: 1

Patios: 2 + 1 Pergola

Garage: 1

Width: 63’-7”

Depth: 104’-0”

Ceiling Heights:

• Main 1st Floor: 10’-0” to 14’-0”

• Kitchen and Master Bedroom: 28’-0” (Pitch ceiling with beams)

• 2nd Floor: 11’-0”

Total SF: 7,446 sf

This Spanish Colonial house was designed for a Californian a couple and their children who moved back to San Juan Capistrano from New York City.

Spanish Colonial Revival architecture shares some elements with the earlier Mission Revival style derived from the architecture of the California missions. The style is marked by the prodigious use of smooth plaster (stucco) wall and chimney finishes, low-pitched clay tile, shed, or flat roofs, terracotta or cast concrete ornaments.

This design employs many characteristics of the style such as the balconies off of the bedrooms, semi-circular arched opening with doors, wood casement windows, a canvas awning off of the Living Room, and ornamental iron trim and grillwork throughout. In keeping with the style the interiors again make ample use of smooth plaster walls and ceilings, decorative tiles around doorways and windows as well as stair risers, thick walls, exposed wood structure with subtle decorative stenciling, and decorative iron work.

The landscaping is also suited for the California weather. All of the plants are also drought-resistant.

Architectural features include a fireplace and several arches that connect the outdoor room to the gorgeous backyard. Note the exposed wood beams on the ceiling—this is another common feature spotted in Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.

The residence is comprised of the following:

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: Walnut plank flooring, limestone detailing, patterned limestone flooring, patterned terracotta flooring, painted drywall walls, mahogany paneling, and exposed beam ceilings. Terracotta tile and limestone flooring in Bathrooms.

• 2nd Floor: Walnut plank flooring, painted drywall walls, drywall ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and limestone flooring in Bathrooms.

Exterior Materials:

• Stucco on cast-in-place concrete, and Spanish clay tile shingle roof. Limestone detailing at exterior walls.

Ecological Considerations:

• Geothermal Heating and Cooling

• Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.

Stories: 2 + Partial Basement

Bedrooms: 4

Baths: 4 + 1/2 WC

Office: 1

Library: 1

Terrace: 2

Garage: 3 car Detached

Width: 120’-0”

Depth: 38’-0”

Ceiling Heights:

• 1st Floor: 10’-0” to 14’-0”

• 2nd Floor: 11’-0” (Sloped Ceiling)

Total SF: 5,460 sf

This German Neoclassical Revival design is a solution which is representative of a residential architectural style prevalent in Germany at the turn of the 20th century and still being constructed today as a vernacular style. This style is clearly informed by the neoclassical architecture of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, from a century earlier.

The house is characterized by clarity of form, symmetry, strong geometry, sober colors, and strong horizontal and verticals lines. Its idealized simplicity and clarity over adornment providing for a very well-proportioned building, simple elegance and quality craftsmanship.

The residence is comprised of the following:

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: Black walnut plank flooring, limestone detailing, patterned limestone flooring, painted drywall walls, mahogany paneling, coffered ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and limestone flooring in Bathrooms.

• 2nd Floor: Random black walnut oak flooring, painted drywall walls, drywall ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and limestone flooring in Bathrooms.

Exterior Materials:

• Stucco on cast-in-place concrete, and black slate shingle roof with copper detailing, patinaed copper gutters and downspouts. Limestone detailing at exterior walls at windows, doors and a belt coursing.

Ecological Considerations:

• Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.

Stories: 2 + Basement

Bedrooms: 5

Baths: 5 + 1/2 WC

Office: 1

Library: 1

Great Room: 1

Terrace: 2

Garage: 3 car Detached

Width: 88’-0”

Depth: 50’-0”

Ceiling Heights:

• 1st Floor: 10’-0”, 14’-0” and 28’-0”

• 2nd Floor: 11’-0”

Total SF: 7,401 sf

This project involves the design of a traditional American farmhouse located in Copper Canyon, Texas for a couple, who are both University professors, and their four teenage children.

The farmhouse style features a stone foundation, clapboard exterior siding, a wrap-around porch, multi-paneled windows and doors, and a standing seam metal roof

The porch beautifully connects the outdoors to the indoors while providing considerable shade to cool the interiors.

The farmhouse design takes the simplicity of the exterior composition and merges it with the modern features on the inside consisting of an open plan, smooth lines, glossy accents and neutral color schemes. It's less rustic, more sophisticated and uses contemporary design elements like stainless steel appliances, marble countertops and industrial lighting.

The residence is comprised of the following:

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: 4-1/2” wide oak plank flooring, painted drywall walls, repurposed barn wood paneling, and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble in Bathrooms.

• 2nd Floor: 2-1/4” random oak flooring, painted drywall walls, drywall ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble in Bathrooms.

Exterior Materials:

• 1/2” clapboard exterior siding on 2X6 wood studs, chopped Austin stone base, tapered wood columns, and matte silver standing seam metal roof. Matte silver metal gutters and downspouts.

Stories: 2 + Tower

Bedrooms: 4

Baths: 4 + 1/2 WC

Office: 1 +Loft

Library: 1

Great Room: 1

Terrace: 1

Garage: 3 car Out Building

Width: 70’-0”

Depth: 44’-9”

Ceiling Heights:

• 1st Floor: 10’-0”

• 2nd Floor: 16’-0” (Sloped Ceiling)

• Tower: 16’-0”

Total SF: 6,303 sf

Ecological Considerations:

• Wrap-around porch that provides shade or minimizes heat gain, east, west and south sides.

• Geothermal Heating and Cooling

• Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.

The Chain Bridge Road Condominiums are located in McLean, VA just up from the Chain Bridge which link Virginia with Washington, DC.

The project was designed in a loose French Provincial style, with an identical plan replicated 4 times. Siting of the plans were done in a staggered fashion, so to establish a sense of individuality for each unit. The condominiums have a breathtaking view of the Potomac River below.

The project was completed while employed by Angelos Demetriou, Architect.

This is the design of an English Arts & Crafts house that evokes the reform style’s basic tenets of design simplicity, restrained decoration, regional materials, traditional craftsmanship and utility. Originally, the concept of artistic houses was characterized by the lightness of their interiors and decorated with beautiful objects which was a welcome relief from the heavy furnishings, dark interiors, blatant ornamentation, and dull palette of the Victorian era that preceded it.

This house displays simplicity of form, an engagement with the the landscape, an asymmetrical composition beginning with a pergola and a catslide roof swooping down one side and ending with a cylindrical tower library on the other side.

ces, and set off by the massive verticals of the chimneys, and the long horizontals of the eaves and dripmoulds. There is no service wing to disturb the perfect 'house that Jack built'; services were accommodated in an existing building down the garden path. The window dressings and mullions, absolutely flush and unmoulded, the steps and the floors of Buttermere slate, of a most beautiful blue; a different palette to Broadleys and Blackwell. The three upper cross-windows on the entrance side represent the staircase landings. (Staircase again with close vertical slats). Voysey took double care to ventilate the house when empty, with tiny opening lights in each window, and an extra chimney flue connecting to all the little air vents: typical of the extreme thought lavished on what was, after all, only a holiday home.

This classic Cape Cod–style cedar shake roof Colonial is located on Pretty Brook Road, in Princeton, NJ and is based on revival of the style that began in the 1930s and continues to this day. It is proves perennially popular with passersby, thanks to its charm, intimacy in scale, and its quiet character that portrays a country house. This style originated in cottages along the trendy, wealthy Northeastern coastal towns of Cape Cod, Long Island, and Newport in the late 19th century.

Traditional details such as the aged cedar shingles with white trim boards, coach ight fixtures, lush landscaping, and operable white shutters with pins and holdbacks give it a romantic sensibility.

The project consists of the primary residence, a professional photography studio, includes a pool and cabana, a greenhouse and several freestanding structures that are part of an 4 acre landscape design.

Each of these elements was planned to be perfectly in scale with the house, ensuring that a sense of romance and intimacy runs throughout the entire homestead.

The residence is comprised of the following:

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: 3-1/2” wide oak flooring, brick paver flooring painted drywall walls, satin wood paneling in the Library, painted drywall ceilings. Marble tile and marble slab material in Bathrooms.

• 2nd Floor: 2-1/4” random oak flooring, painted drywall walls, painted drywall ceilings. Marble tile and marble slab material in Bathrooms.

Exterior Materials:

• Painted brick walls and the house proper.

• Clapboard siding on the balance of the structure.

• Multi-paned windows and doors with wooden shutters.

• Cedar shingles at all roofs.

• Matte white metal gutters and downspouts.

Ecological Considerations:

• Maintenance strategy of wetlands

• Maintenance strategy of Stony Brook run through the property

• Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.

Stories: 2

Bedrooms: 4

Baths: 5 + 1/2 WC

Photography Studio: 1

Library: 1

Great Room: 1

Terrace: 1

Garage: 3 Car Out Building

Width: 70’-0”

Depth: 44’-9”

Ceiling Heights:

• 1st Floor: 10’-0”

• 2nd Floor: 10’-0” (Sloped Ceiling)

Total SF: 4,303 sf

Project was completed in conjunction with Michael Crackel, Architect.

This project involved the gutting and renovation of a NYC pre-war apartment to become the residence of a advertising executive. The spaces include the following spaces:

• Hall Entry

• Guest Bedroom and Bath

• Kitchen with a Dining Alcove

• Living Room

• Master Bath

• Master Bedroom

The executive is a collector of American Impressionist art and much of the apartment design was organized and influenced by the collection.

The total square footage of the apartment is 1,200 +/- and construction took approximately 4 months.

Project completed in conjunction with Michael Crackle, Architect.

This Shingle Style house in located in Southampton, NY, one street in from the beach. Shingle Style homes are distinguished by their wood cladding, asymmetrical façades, gambrel roofs, and welcoming porches. Classic yet informal, the look remains popular for country homes and beach retreats, with current architects adding contemporary influences to the historic aesthetic.

This house is designed with a cedar shingle gambrel roof, ample use of dormers. an engaging front porch, simple unadorned doors, salvaged authentic light casement windows, and simple cornices. There is a round tower office extension to the left of the house proper and a square tower with a steeply pitched roof at the back.

The rear of the house was later redesigned by a new owner.

The residence is comprised of the following:

Interior Materials:

• 1st Floor: 2-1/4” random oak flooring, painted drywall walls, painted shiplap walls, and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble in Bathrooms.

• 2nd Floor: 2-1/4” random oak flooring, painted drywall walls, drywall ceilings and exposed beam ceilings. Ceramic tile and marble in Bathrooms.

Exterior Materials:

• Red cedar perfection shingles on 2X6 & 2x4 wood studs, painted brick foundation wall, wood trellis porch, painted wood trim, and aged silver perfection shingles roof. White metal gutters and downspouts.

Ecological Considerations:

• Numerous “Green” construction materials and products, involving resource efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, water conservation, and natural materials sourcing.

Stories: 2 + Towers

Bedrooms: 4

Baths: 2 + 1/2 WC

Office: 1

Library: 1

Decks: 2

Garage: 2 car Out Building

Width: 65’-3”

Depth: 54’-6”

Ceiling Heights:

• 1st Floor: 10’-0”

• 2nd Floor: 10’-0” (Sloped Ceiling)

• Tower: 22’-0”

Total SF: 2,376 sf