Whole Home Remodel Scope of Work

In this case, these clients had a 3-car garage that was essentially extra square footage they thought they could better utilize. They often found themselves in need of a proper mudroom, laundry room, and pantry, so we worked together to take one of the garage bays from the garage and build into it a room that met all three of these needs. The new mudroom now serves as the primary functional entrance to the home and gets used much more than the formal front door. Because of the orientation of the home and their parking area, this is what works well for the flow of their family and meets the need they have in getting people in and out of the house in an efficient manner while hosting gatherings!

In the mudroom, we built custom built-ins with a bench for taking off shoes, leaving the space below the bench open. The bench was created using a custom cherry live edge wood slab. The floor of the garage sat a few feet below the house, so we added steps to go from the mudroom to the laundry which we made flush with the rest of the house. In the laundry room, we added a small closet that would be used to store cleaning supplies. We relocated their front-load washer and dryer and placed a matching cherry countertop on top to be used for laundry folding. We framed the laundry with a small bump out to offset the laundry units to give ample walking space, this bump-out also played into the aesthetic improvements we made to the exterior.

From the laundry room you enter their kitchen, so this space was ideal for a pantry. We were going for a farmhouse look and added a half-glass door with stained wood that matched their mudroom bench. They had ample shelves in the pantry, perfect for canned goods and the like. They chose a lovely slate tile, wallpapered the entire area, and we refurbished an antique farm light to hang as a pendant, tying in the farmhouse feel.

The exterior of the home needed updates for maintenance purposes but the clients also had a vision for what the house could be and the original brown siding was not cutting it. The goal was to lighten the feel of the home and add some features that would add character and depth. We achieved all this by residing the entire house with LP SmartSide in multiple textures, adding several bump outs, Replacing all the windows, and re-roofing certain parts of the accent locations with standing seam metal roofing. We also began working on making updates to their front porch. We stained their wooden porch floor and painted the ceiling Smoke (light blue), we also installed a ceiling porch fan. This exterior remodel changed the entire look of the house, it is brighter and more welcoming than ever!

Design details & challenges

Some of the design challenges presented by this project were simply working with the existing to achieve the levels of depth the client wanted. There were large open walls the client wanted to break up so they would not be so plain and we had to get creative with ways to do this. At one spot, we added extra framing and even a small roof all around a window to make it stand out and appear more 3D from the rest of the house wall.

One of the interesting challenges we faced was that the clients had a colony of bats living in their attic. We contacted a wildlife removal specialist and were told we couldn’t block up the attic where the bats were yet because the bats had pups! We had to wait for the pups to be able to fly before we could seal the attic. The maturity of these young bats lined up with the end of our project and we were able to coordinate this with the residing of the home. They installed a bat house at the edge of the yard for the bats to occupy once they had flown.

Mabry Whole Home Exterior Remodel