11.13.2006

Raising the Frame in Vermont

Well, its not exactly a barn raising, but the frame for the addition we have designed for an early 1800's farmhouse in Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom, is definitely on its way up. It took us awhile to reach this point, but the work is moving fast now that it has begun, with winter threatening and the contractor eager to close in the shell.
Our design concept here, in adding new spaces that total the sum of the square footage of the original house, was to set the addition back from the front of the old house and to turn the bulk of this addition perpendicular to the road. When complete, the expanded house will look a bit like a connected farmhouse with adjacent sheds and a barn, a model still to be seen through the hills of northern New England.

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