Month: March 2020

Early 2020 DVHA Project Updates

While winter weather can sometimes be a hindrance to construction in our profession, the DVHA team has been very fortunate to have seen a lot of progress on many of our projects over the last few months. Today we’re sharing some peeks at both our recently completed homes and projects under construction.

A couple of our marquee projects, including our Oceanfront Shingle and Greenwich Mid-Country Manor, are now complete and occupied!

Our newly completed Oceanfront Shingle

Our Mid-Country Manor project

As soon as Spring is in all its glory, we’ll be taking plenty of photos of these projects to share with you!

Additionally, our Colonial Manor home here in Greenwich (pictured below) is near completion.

Both our Suburban Shingle in Ridgewood, NJ, and Rye Colonial projects are well underway and literally beginning to take shape. In just a couple of weeks at our Rye Colonial home, framing progressed from this…

…to this:

It’s always exciting to see the shape of the building take form, and we look forward to sharing more updates on these projects with you later this year.

We also have a number of new projects on the boards, as always.  Two in particular are quite special: a new shingle style home in Old Greenwich, and a sprawling estate in the Catskills.

A peek at our plans for the Old Greenwich shingle home

You’ll be hearing a lot more about these new projects in the coming months. Stay tuned for updates!

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A Tour of Our Colonial Pool Cottage Renovation

We recently completed our Colonial Pool Cottage renovation project. Let’s take a deeper look at this modest, charming home.

An interesting part of this renovation is that we built the original pool house back in 1995. The new owners wanted the space to function as a primary residence, so the renovation included major additions.

Restrained details and symmetrical massing define the front façade of our revisited Colonial Pool Cottage.

Without disrupting the rear of the home, a new second floor over the central mass and two new side wings were added to provide the extra space needed. Projecting rear wings with curved corners remain largely intact, serving their original purpose of enclosing the outdoor entertainment space.

Moving to the interior of the home, an efficient floor plan provides sightlines from the front entry to the pool and from the kitchen into the living spaces.

The scale of the home remains unassuming and charming, while not sacrificing any of the functionality that one would expect in a larger home.

See more of our renovation projects here.