On The Board
New Tudor Revival Carriage House
The Morningside community in Atlanta, founded in 1923, is known for its historic homes and walking trails within the beautiful nature preserve. It’s a community that holds much of Atlanta’s history and the start of the city’s growth. Today, it’s a sought after neighborhood where the current homeowners take pride in their historic homes, but need to expand their small bungalows to today’s modern lifestyle. We were thrilled when we were recommended to our clients looking to add a carriage house and covered breezeway to their property. We looked to their English Tudor revival bungalow to drive the design. Being sensitive to the current detailing of the home, the new carriage house seems to have been built original to the home. We were able to use an existing carport area to enclose for a two-car garage, hidden wine cellar and storage area. Above, is a small one bedroom guesthouse, detailed on the interior with exposed beams and Tudor style windows. At the existing house, using the same detailing as the covered breezeway, we added a mudroom that appears to be an old porch that was enclosed.
Historical Ranch Renovation
Having purchased a sizeable ranch home in Marietta Ga, the owners of this property wanted to respond to their growing family by gutting the first floor public space including their in home garage, to allow for a larger kitchen/family room. The addition of a separate detached garage gave space for the additional program requirements on the first floor while giving the owners the opportunity to add additional space on the second floor of the garage in the future. An existing sunroom which looks out onto a large yard with a pool was enlarged for communal dining and supervised work area for three small children. In addition to reworking the first floor interior space, the owners wanted to update the exterior (characterized by low pitched roofs and deep overhangs) of the classic 60’s ranch home. The new front façade is improved by the addition of a sizeable front porch and kitchen garden which is detailed to marry the shorter existing vertical proportions with better scaled columns, lattice panels and arbor with classical detailing. The roof pitches were increased, and the eaves were reduced to give the house some visual height without completely removing the existing roof and raising up the existing roof of the house.
