SPRING GREEN RANCH HOME ADDITION

This current project is an addition and remodel of a one-story ranch home in Spring Green.  With a growing family, my clients' goals include enlarging their kitchen and dining area, creating a new family room and adding a master bedroom suite.  The larger kitchen that they envision will not fit within the existing house, so most of the existing kitchen will be closed off to create a new mud room to the garage, and the new kitchen will occupy the former dining area, as well as part of the addition. 

Although the owners desire an open plan, they also want a feeling of separation between the kitchen / dining area and the family room.  Nonstructural columns and stairs between the dining and family room areas will create that sense of separation, as well as giving the family room a higher ceiling.

The new master suite is almost twice as large as the existing master suite.  The former master suite will be shared by two of the children.

Challenges include working around the existing exterior stair to the basement, making the rooflines work and keeping the proportions of the addition similar to those of the existing home.  Construction is expected to start this summer.

View of the existing dining area from the existing galley-style kitchen - the addition will sit to the right of the photo.

View of the galley-style kitchen from the existing dining area - the addition will connect beyond the sliding patio door on the left.