Techbuilt Renovation

Building the Entrance Hall

The new entrance hall will serve to connect the original 1958 Techbuilt home with the addition is a fun, funky, and fascinating design. (The existing front entrance to the original house will go away).

The inverted roof is held up by steel posts and a steel beam, On top of the beam is a steel channel for water to run down to what will ultimately be a Japanese garden.

The stairs to the second floor of new addition and a new set of stairs for the original house will start below the end of the two halves of the roofline of the entrance hall making for a very open and inviting link between the two halves. When we stand at the top of the stairs on the new side we can see all the way down the entrance ceiling to where the front door will be.

Joe, our architect, had a wonderful vision for how the buildings could be connected as well as how the design can serve as art. The way that he designed the steps to go up following the roofline of the entrance hall is remarkable. It's exciting to see what it looks like because the drawings are difficult for me to visualize.

I’ll post about the entrance again when the work is further along.

 

Installing Windows in the Snow

This week the team is installing energy-efficient windows and doors from Pella into the new addition. Considering the cold and snowy weather and how drafty the original 1950s windows are in our existing home, we’re thrilled to have these windows go in.

In phase two of our project some time this summer, they will use the same product to replace the windows in our existing home.

The Pella product is a good choice for us because it is energy-efficient at a reasonable cost. Considering how many windows we have, both of these factors are important.

The windows are pre-primed white on the inside and the outside are finished in black which is an important part of the external color palate we selected.