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Dawn Christine Architect PLLC – Art Of The Possible: Modern Farmhouse – A dramatic artistic transformation

This project is located in the Cary Park neighborhood in Cary, NC. Our clients wanted to transform the main level of their colonial home into a Modern Farmhouse, complete with a state of the art, farm to table experience, farmhouse living and farmhouse dining illuminated with plenty of natural light. The outdoor dining and kitchen were equally important as the interior because the client is a grill master and pizza connoisseur.

The architect’s creative vision transported this rather dark, specially disfunctional traditional colonial home to a light filled dynamic space that provides the necessary function while achieving an exciting visual and spatial connection. The spatial experience begins immediately upon entering the home.

Your eye is quickly drawn away from the existing front porch, the existing foyer, existing office, and existing dining toward the natural light diffusing from the new Kitchen and Butler’s Pantry windows. As the beauty of the natural light and warm reclaimed wood flooring draws you in, the height and detailing of the kitchen, living and dining ceilings truly evokes an emotional response. You feel inspired like you have been transported from a typical colonial home to this artistic composition that gives you a sense of awe and anticipation as the beauty of the architecture is juxtaposed to frame the natural environment.

This uniquely designed, state of the art kitchen showcases reclaimed wood floors that become a continuous datum that harmoniously blend the existing home with the expanded footprint. A structural beam which fortifies the existing second floor is boldly clad in reclaimed wood which seamlessly expands and spatially opens the kitchen with a dramatic vault. The focal point of the kitchen is the striking wall of windows which become a series of illuminated picture frames making the natural landscape a piece of priceless art within the space. Common home elements like ceilings, cabinets, and windows, were elevated into dramatic artistic elements where illuminated color hues are layered spatially, geometrically, and compositionally to create a beautiful Modern Farmhouse style that is both stunning and unexpected.

An important part of the comprehensive design was the inclusion of an outdoor kitchen that is adjacent to the main kitchen. After design was already in progress, the client decided to add a roof structure over the outdoor kitchen which created a potential conflict with the dramatic angular windows in the expanded kitchen. To solve this design challenge, we did several roof studies to determine the best solution. Option A takes a simple approach integrating arbors with wood columns on a stone base to define the outdoor kitchen quaint sitting spaces. This option allowed for the landscape and the architecture to become integrated as a roof plane without impinging on the geometry of the angled window.

The dynamic angles of the exterior architecture are woven throughout the entire design. They are showcased in the outdoor kitchen roofline, the 45 degree juxtaposition of the outdoor kitchen relative to the main structure. The artistry of angles is also a powerful design element on the interior spaces where striking angular elements including ceiling lines, window lines, exposed beams, and trusses are artistically layered to articulate the spatial volumes.

Set within a lush landscape, the interior flows seamlessly from the living and dining addition into the outdoors featuring a gourmet outdoor kitchen which rests under a striking roof. The outdoor kitchen boasts state of the art outdoor cooking appliances including a Vesuvio wood fired pizza oven, Echelon Diamond searing station, 60” Echelon Diamond grill, and 23” Komodo Kamado smoker.

Form, function, and spatial beauty are faint until illuminated by light. In the design of the renovation, the Architect transformed the basic need for windows and natural light into a well thought out artistic and geometric composition that visually embraces the green foliage of the outside. The strong angular and linear geometry of the window design acts as a picture frame which captures the natural beauty of the exterior foliage and brings it inside. To strengthen the design synergy, the windows are trimmed in reclaimed wood.

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