Nestled in the heart of Montpelier, a charming 1940s cottage, and its family was bursting at the seams. This cozy 24'x24' two-bedroom home on Terrace Street had a story to tell, but it needed a new chapter. Enter Arocordis Design, led by Stephen M. Frey architect, ready to breathe fresh life into this classic abode with inspired architectural design and planning.
The Challenge: From Snug to Spacious
Picture this: a family deeply rooted in their community, just a stone's throw from Montpelier's bustling downtown. They liked their location, but their beloved cottage was struggling to keep up with their growing needs and thriving landscape design-build business. They faced a dilemma: move away or transform their home and stay in town close to friends, schools, and…
async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26065156-1">
Introduction:
Creating a new garage hobby barn live space to support your existing home in a rural or suburban setting can be an exciting and rewarding project. To ensure a successful outcome, it’s important to follow key steps and best design and planning practices.
Those taking steps to determine space usage requirements, assessing existing building and site infrastructure, and permitting needs. It’s also critical to consider aging in place, accessibility, and universal design principles for forward adaptability to changing lifestyles and life chapters. With a frequently unstable climate, it is critical to meet or exceed energy efficiency standards and improve resiliency to climate shocks. This easy-to-understand guide will walk you through these and other important planning and design steps.
async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26065156-1">
A new project
Arocordis Design likes to create stunning rustic and modern custom homes for clients in Vermont. In this article, we will take you through our journey of a recent new net-zero rustic modern home for a new client that is both eco and family-friendly.
Sustainable home design is very popular in Vermont because of its many benefits to the environment and its occupants. At Arocordis Design, we strive to design eco-friendly homes that are energy efficient and use natural resources like local materials, energy efficient building construction and systems, sunlight, and wind. We are now designing such a home in Northern Vermont for an owner-builder family who will soon move back to Vermont.
async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26065156-1">
When it comes to building a new home, it's important to work with an architect early on in the process. At Arocordis Design, a Vermont residential architecture firm, we have guided local families since 2010, through the planning, design, and construction of modern, sustainable homes. By working with us from the beginning, you can help maximize your investment and achieve the home of your dreams.
async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26065156-1">
In late 2021, a client hired us to plan and design a modern-inspired major renovation for the new home they recently bought. He needed a design to improve multi-generational livability and to add to a two-bedroom home in Central Vermont. That meant designing a new bedroom wing, an expanded kitchen, and other changes to enlarge the home enough to…
async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26065156-1">
It started with an email
Recently, a client sought us out to adapt our ZigZag House2 home design for her property in Northern Vermont. For her, the 1,000 square foot 2-bedroom single-level home was a great starting point but she wanted to adapt it in a variety of ways to better suit her needs. A home-based writer, she wrote in a small specially design cabin bucolically located on the edge of a large pond with scenic views of the hills and mountains to the west. The primary two-story single-family home nearby anchored the hillside property, a former dairy farm.
Our client sought to lease the main house to another family while designing and building a new compact home for herself nearby around the same pond as the writer’s cabin. She set some inspiring goals which included:
async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26065156-1">
We worked on some landscape design concepts recently to update the outdoor experience behind a home in Central Vermont. Built in 1970, the contemporary-styled four-bedroom Acorn Deck House still had its original decks and pool enclosure, dated lighting fixtures, and awkward circulation.
async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26065156-1">
We designed this pop-up mini-park in a leftover off-street parking area on Langdon Street in downtown Montpelier, Vermont. Built by Rogen Design-Build it was installed for three summer seasons. It provided a shaded flexible seating area and bike parking. My son called it The Kickstand due to it being right next to a bike shop. The name stuck. Ward Joyce collaborated with us on this project.
async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26065156-1">
Interested in modern inspired small home living? Read on for more about ZigZag House 2, one of our many prototype green homes.
async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-26065156-1">
