At Arocordis Design, we often collaborate with clients who have eyes bigger than their stomachs, or honestly, home design ideas bigger than their budget. If this sounds like you what do you do in cases like that? Whether a new custom home, addition, or major renovation this mindset applies equally well. As Vermont architects, we advocate for and design harder-working buildings and spaces that do more than one job. This short article focuses on interior space planning and design but also can be applied to the design of an overall new home or large addition or wing.
What does doing more than one job mean? Well, toss out single-use rooms like a dining room or a formal entry area. Work to integrate that dining function into a flexible open space living area. Create a mudroom that doubles as the main entry. With ideas like this,…..
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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.
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Kismet comes in unexpected ways. Sometimes it lies in wait in plain sight. Late last winter, a couple hired us to design a modern-spirited set of renovations and additions for a home bought earlier the year before. The home was a plain 1960s era single-level ranch with great bones and potential for creative design. It lay next to his working beef farm in the hills of Vermont’s Upper Valley in a spectacular sprawling meadow.
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BEGINNINGS
Late last year a couple approached us to adapt our Inside-Out House, a net-zero-ready prototype home design we created a few years ago to their land in southern Vermont. We enlarged and customized it to suit their family needs and design goals. Along the way, we pushed the home design in some innovative directions that we share below. We call this home design FieldHouse.
THE SITE
Located on 60 mostly wooded acres in the Upper Valley area in Vermont, our clients selected a forested edge that spilled out onto….
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Our Clients Asked for Design Inspiration
Our clients in Central Vermont who we recently helped with backyard area redesign concepts later asked us back to develop more design ideas, but this time for their lower living level bathrooms.
A five-bedroom home built in 1970, the bathrooms still had their original finishes, molded one-piece shower stalls, sinks, counters, lighting fixtures, and toilets. Still serviceable, but tired out, the clients wanted to refresh and update them for the next generation….
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A new small prototype green home we have in design. 1,300 sf +/- of single level living space, 2 bedrooms, flexible kitchen-dining-living area whose space extends to a generous terrace and pergola. The single living level recognizes the growing need for homes allowing older homeowners age in place, reducing the need to further downsize....;
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