TURNING PROPERTY POTENTIAL INTO PRACTICAL BEAUTY

a classic and highly-relatable Chesapeake Bay area challenge: Once purchased, how do you take a much older waterfront home built before a substantive era of innovations in construction practices and materials, and make it a model of functional modernity and the ultimate familial haven and retreat?

While the simplistic response might be to create a great team and renovate it, P.J. Mueller, President of Mueller Homes, took that sentiment to the next level when referring to this month’s feature home in Severna Park.

“We are very fortunate to work with a lot of great teams that include the client, the architect, the interior designer, and our talents as a builder to create a one-of-kind, hand-crafted piece of artwork that our clients ultimately get to enjoy with friends and family for years to come,” Mueller says.

Indeed, quite the team was assembled by the homeowners to bring their forever, dream home to fruition. At the forefront of that team was P.J. Mueller and his crew at Mueller Homes, who credits the highly creative architectural strategy created by Stephanie Cook of Speight Studio Architects in Annapolis with maximizing the main home’s original footprint to provide a free-flowing transitional space requested by the new homeowners.

Finishing that space with layers of interior details would become the responsibility of Melissa McLay of Melissa McLay Interiors, and other custom subcontractors, such as Kitchen Encounters’ Krissy Klingenberger, both of Annapolis.

Although the homeowner describes the property as a perfect fit for him and his wife, the original home on that property, built in 1953, had been added on to and updated in various ways over the years before they purchased it in 2017.