Striking an appealing balance between traditional and minimalist, the Logan Circle renovation is the result of clients who were of two minds. The wife feels most comfortable in eclectic, vintage surroundings, while the husband likes his spaces starkly modern. Colleen Healey’s design catered brilliantly to both tastes, preserving much of the three-story row house’s front section facing Washington, D.C.’s historic Logan Circle, while reconfiguring the two-story dogleg in the rear. The renovation preserved distinctive elements such as the decorative-glass bay windows and archways at each floor landing, and reused four of the eight fireplaces. Elegant insertions updated the interiors while preserving the building’s character: a steel and glass mudroom, an elongated archway between the front and back of the house, and the sculpted treatment of stock skylights that bring light from the roof into the main floor through an opening in the kitchen ceiling. Colleen lightly touched the front and rear façades, repainting the blue trim grayish black and adding a roof deck and a floor-to-ceiling glass slider on the back.
“I loved exposing some of the row house elements, like the brick of the original chimney and the joists,” Colleen says. “The house is expressing itself in very different ways in front and back, but it still feels very connected through the material palette.” The judges applauded the inspired, respectful fusion of old and new. [To view full feature coverage of this project in Residential Design magazine, click here.]
Citation
Custom Period or Vernacular Renovation
Colleen Healey Architecture
Logan Circle Renovation
Washington
Project Credits
ARCHITECT: Colleen Healey Architecture, Washington
BUILDER: John Allen, AllenBuilt, Bethesda, Maryland
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Norton Consulting Engineers, Washington
METALWORK: AK Metal Fabricators,
Alexandria, Virginia
PROJECT SIZE: 6,000 square feet
SITE SIZE: .08 acre
Construction Cost: Withheld
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jennifer Horn Photography and Anice Hoachlander
Key Products
DISHWASHER: Miele, Bosch
FAUCETS: Newport Brass, Delta, Kallista
INSULATION/THERMAL & MOISTURE
BARRIERS: AeroBarrier
LIGHTING: Lutron, Progress
OVEN: Miele
RANGE: Wolf
REFRIGERATOR/FREEZERS: Sub-Zero, JennAir
ROOFING: TPO
SECURITY/AUDIOVISUAL: Powerhouse
SINKS: Elkay, Kohler
SKYLIGHTS: VELUX
TILE: Architectural Ceramics
TOILETS: TOTO
WINDOWS: Loewen
WINDOW SHADING: Lutron
WINE STORAGE: Whirlpool
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