Revamped Residence

In August 2010, after spending a year away from the Upper Arlington home they’d owned for 20 years, the Jennings returned to a home that had nearly doubled in size.

In their absence, architects at Columbusbased Stock and Stone completed a twostory addition that included a new kitchen, mudroom, media and game room, and master bedroom, as well as a remodel of the existing space.

Homeowner Sharon Jennings takes pride in “that feeling of having created something.”

“We took our house the way it looked before and made it into something that was just what we wanted,” she says.

Sharon and her husband, Doug, realized that as their two children – Andrew,

13, and Kate, 12 – were growing, the family was quickly outgrowing the house, which began at about 1,600 feet and now is 3,100 square feet. Because they love their neighborhood – especially the corner lot that has a larger back yard than do many Upper Arlington homes – the Jennings family opted to remodel rather than move.

Beyond their primary goal of adding more living space, they wanted a house that would match their casual family lifestyle. For that reason, Sharon says, “We deliberately decided to get rid of a formal living room.”

For the same reason, they added a mudroom with plenty of storage space and even a built-in home for Snickerdoodle, their Cockapoo. A short walk from the