GOLD AWARD
Team Entry: Paul Gaiser Architects LLC, Bethesda, Md. and Greenwald Cassell Contractors,
McLean, Va.
Project location: Bethesda, Md.
Sq. ft. after: 6,600 finished space, 820 sq. ft. of open covered porch, and 210 sq. ft. of screened porch
Project cost: $950,000

Home whole-house remodels offer complete transformations from old to new. Such was the case of a Washington, D.C.-area home, that went from a four-bedroom, 1950s split-level to a sprawling and grand two-story, Nantucket-style residence, that bears very little resemblance to its former condition.

The architect and builder team provided a number of creative solutions crucial to the exceptional result. First, the existing garage was removed and resituated at the opposite end of the existing front gable, creating a more balanced massing and allowing a large space in between for the rest of the house to unfold. Second, after removing the existing roof, a second floor was added creating enough space below to allow for 12-ft. ceilings throughout the main floor. Third, an existing sunroom and greenhouse at the rear of the home were removed to make way for a large screen porch that looks out onto the rear yard.
Upstairs, the new second floor included three new large bedrooms, three new large bathrooms, a study, a laundry room, a media room and an elegant master suite with its own veranda overlooking the yard.

The front elevation is completed with four wonderful dormers on top set above four sets of French doors that open onto a covered porch.

The Nantucket style was capped with a cedar shake exterior and a weather-vaned pergola atop the carriage house style garage.

Silver:
Teakwood Builders, Inc.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Bronze:
Scott Wilson Architect LLC
Brentwood, Tenn.

Honorable Mention:
Block Builders
Bethesda, Md.