This historic center-hall house, built in 1926, occupies a corner lot in Richmond’s Laburnum Park Historic District. In designing a rear expansion for the longtime owners who wished to age in place, we reinterpreted and modernized traditional elements of a classic Southern house: an expansive east-facing louvered porch with cross ventilation and a 14-foot-tall ceiling, a lantern-like glass belvedere, and tall floor-mounted windows.

Timeless and natural materials of cedar and traditional hand-rubbed lime-based stucco plaster clad the exterior.

• Design 2019

• Construction 2022-2023

• Interior Design: Kelly Brown Interiors

• Contractor: Olsten Building Company