This project is a full renovation of a historic hundred-year-old house in Larchmont.
The house was originally owned by E.F. Caldwell, a well-known lighting designer who worked closely with Stanford White. Originally spacious and elegant, the house had suffered the indignity of various renovations. We stripped the house down to expose its original grace, repositioned and added key windows to bring in light and connect to the outside, and introduced the clean lines and modern aesthetics.
We introduced several strategic interventions in order to improve patterns of movement and connection within the house; a ‘greenhouse’ addition to visually connect with the spacious back yard and to provide a much needed mudroom for this large family; the re-imagining of the maid’s stair as an elegant spiral connecting the four floors of the house, and the transformation of a rambling third floor storage space into light filled spaces for study and play.