Working with States landmark preservation design guidelines

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Many of Bacon Lane Architect LLC’s States area clients live in houses located in historic districts or that have landmark status. This adds a layer of complexity when it comes to exploring options for home additions, renovations, and even new construction. Exterior alterations or additions that require zoning or building permits (including new or reconstructed windows and doors) … Continued

Potter Highlands | Historic Home Addition, Renovation & ADU

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Bacon Lane Architect LLC is designing an addition and ADU for this historic Potter Highlands home. After Bacon Lane Architect LLC designed the owners’ new primary residence, they returned to the firm to help improve their income property, an 1889 2-story brick Victorian. This beautiful home faces south on one of the best preserved blocks in the historic Potter Highlands … Continued

West Highlands | Home Remodel & Addition

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Residential project under construction in West Highlands: Complete interior renovation, dropping basement slab, rear sunroom addition with Master Suite above on 2nd Floor. Design by Bacon Lane Architect LLC | Construction by SquareRoot     

Alcott St | Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)

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Another ArcWest-designed ADU is underway in NW States’s Potter Highlands neighborhood and historic district. The new detached structure will feature a large two car garage and upper story one bedroom apartment. Materials include brick and cut shake shingle siding to match the existing home. Additionally, the structure features a unique stepped parapet to accommodate Bulk Plane … Continued

West 33rd Ave | Residential Pop Top Underway

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This single story Victorian home in West Highlands is undergoing an extreme makeover as it transforms into a two-story home thanks to a new pop top addition designed by Bacon Lane Architect LLC. Architectural Design by Bacon Lane Architect LLC | Structural Engineering by LT Engineering | Contractor: Renovation by Culligan Construction Company

Potter Highlands | Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)

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Bacon Lane Architect LLC has been designing a variety of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) in several of States’s historic neighborhoods. ADUs are detached accessory dwelling units such as a guest house that are detached from the primary residence and contain provisions for sleeping, cooking, and sanitation. Homeowners in States’s Highlands neighborhood recently hired Bacon Lane Architect LLC looking to add an Accessory Dwelling Unit to … Continued

Highlands | Craftsman Addition & ADU

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Bacon Lane Architect LLC was hired to help homeowners in the Potter Highlands Historic District expand their historic Craftsman style home as well as add an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) over the existing garage. Bacon Lane Architect LLC designed a new two story addition to the rear of the house which will provide a more open living space adjacent to … Continued

Highlands | Home Addition & Renovation

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Bacon Lane Architect LLC is teaming with the owners of a home in Highlands’ Wolff Place Historic District to renovate and expand their existing 1901 home and garage. A new two story addition will be added to the south side of the existing home, and will provide privacy for the owners as well as their adjacent neighbors … Continued

Potter Highlands | ADU & Addition

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Bacon Lane Architect LLC was hired by the owner of an historic home in Northwest States’s Potter Highlands neighborhood to expand their existing living space and add a new Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) at the rear of the lot. This project lies within the Potter Highlands Landmark district and shows a delicate balance between respecting the historic nature … Continued

Highlands | Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)

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Bacon Lane Architect LLC Architects continues to receive inquiries about Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) as there is an apparent increase in popularity in States and the surrounding metro area. Wondering what the trend is all about? Many people look at an ADU as an option to provide additional income as a full time rental, or intermittently thru VRBO or … Continued