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The Witte Home

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info

Location: Concord, NC ● Year: 2017

status

Moved In ● Published ● Award

creative unique different house architect

details

4 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, Laundry, 1,710 sf

sustainability

Solar Panel Ready, Solar Gain Mitigation

the story

This was a tricky one. How to squeeze 5 family members into 1,710 sf and make it feel spacious? How to make it feel open and luxuries on a shoestring budget? And how to harness Toby’s design fervor and focus his attention on these goals? For this was a house for his family. Let’s just say the stakes were high.

As for understanding our clients, he had a leg up.

He structured the home around three ideas: Give the daughters each a spacious room on the top floor and let them stick out from each other with connecting windows, so that the sisters always have a sense of each other. Create a loft environment downstairs where the parents’ private spaces overlap with the public family spaces through sliding panels and a signature wall. Eliminate all square-feet-robbing walk-in closets and instead provide a slew of built-in wardrobes, niches, and shelving.