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Garden Retreat

Washington, DC, United States

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Ballard+Mensua Architecture

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2017

Phase 2 of Redefining Basement Renovation, this next phase is outside the box as the first phase of the project.

This custom builder home is on a sloped lot and while it offered our client 6,500 square feet of new home, it also offered many challenges. The back yard is a huge hill carrying water from many neighbors. Wood retaining walls hold back the hill to allow for an existing flagstone patio, but leave little play space for the families 3 children. The front of the house is up a large hill and is the driveway is very dangerous in the winter. The house towers above the street and loses a more human and charming scale. The original house colors provided by the builder are a mustard yellow, green and brown.

We just filed for permit for this project and will be digging out the entire backyard to provide a real lawn and play space for the children. This requires a series of stepped planter walls and an all new landscaping plan.

To the rear of the building, we are adding an outdoor cooking area, a covered porch with an excercise room above it and a new garden shed with an upper terrace for basketball.

To the front of the building, we are relandscaping everything and are adding a front porch expansion to break down the scale of the house. Under the porch, we are digging it out and adding a storage area. We are replacing the driveway to add texture and heat to melt snown and ice.

Finally, we are replacing the builder grade windows and repainting the entire exterior.

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