In 2017 our team of architects took on this renovation project, which turned into a new construction project which turned into a great friendship – St. Louis Homes and Lifestyles Magazine:
Longtime Kirkwood residents Mike and Susan weren’t in the market for a new home. The couple was perfectly content with the spacious home they’d owned for 25 years, filling it with antiques, family heirlooms and cherished memorabilia. That is, they were “content” until…
Driving home one day, Susan took a slightly different route, and a “Coming Soon” sign caught her eye. The picturesque 1.5-acre property included an Adirondack-styled ranch home and a 100-year-old barn that had potential as the headquarters for her thriving business, Knollwood Lane, where she and her partners hand-craft vintage-inspired gifts and décor.
Susan wasted no time bringing her husband back to view the property, which they purchased in March, 2016. Then Mike began having second thoughts about their investment. More than a half-century old, the house had been expanded and updated, but was less than half the size of their current home. It would need considerable work, and the barn was another story entirely. But Susan had a vision, so she made overtures to three well-known local architects in hopes of assuaging her husband’s concerns.
Jeff Day & Associates Architecture was the first to respond, and Jeff Day himself arrived for a Saturday meeting with the couple. Although typical of Day’s attentive client service, what makes this so remarkable is that his firm can have as many as 50 projects underway at any given time.
Read the whole article at St. Louis Homes and Lifestyles Magazine.