This 1930s Spanish Tudor home’s renovation transformed existing dark, outdated rooms to inviting and cheerful living spaces. This part of the house had inefficient room layouts, a dreary interior and no obvious place for guests and family to enter the house. Most importantly, the owners had a strong desire to increase the sustainability of their entire home as part of the project.

This project consisted of the addition of a bay with generous windows opening to the expansive garden and a new welcoming covered entry. The interior spaces were completely remodeled and reconfigured to create an elegant new foyer, kitchen, eating area, office and half bath. The project’s success is in large part due to a team approach with the owner, the builder, the interior designer and the landscape designer. The sustainable aspects of the home include careful exterior wall and roof detailing and construction, insulation upgrades throughout the home, installation of energy and water efficient equipment, use of recycled materials and water-efficient landscape design with regional plant selections.

• “Just a note to say that your services were topnotch. You considered our needs as well as the parameters of the materials and the existing design to give us an end product that delighted the eye and was also functional.”

  Elizabeth Rose and Joe Hull, Owners