Private Residence III

RIDGEWOOD, NEW JERSEY

A young, growing Ridgewood family had a desire to expand their late 19th century Georgian style home. Working with Poskanzer Skott Architects the designer removed the rear of the existing house and added a new kitchen, breakfast room with butler’s pantry, and a family room with a covered entry. The mud room area and spaces around the existing garage were expanded and re-organized to change the traffic pattern thru the house. The second floor of the addition became a new master bedroom suite with a vaulted ceiling and sitting room. Generous amounts of glass were used throughout the project to convey a sense of openness. The clients are collectors of Arts and Crafts antiques and requested that the new architecture convey their aesthetic interests. While the original house is Georgian, the style of Arts and Crafts was blended into the existing by the use of clapboard siding, double hung windows and steep pitched “A frame” roof profiles. These features, along with exaggerated scale trim which wraps around exterior corners, became the dominant language of the new architecture.