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.
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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.
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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…
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Modern farmhouses are common in new home construction in Vermont. That is because long ago in the mid-1800’s farmers adopted an innovative contemporary style of farmstead design called the connected L or “ell”. It arose in New England then to support a wider range of farming and work activities at the farm and responded well to the harsh cold climate. Examples dot our green mountain state today. That heritage borne on practicality and innovation infuses the spirit of the modern farmhouse designs of today.
Its classic, connected forms attract clients. It also connects to the history and traditions of our working landscape of Vermont. It stays popular because….
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