Craftsman style home Wilton

4 Bedroom 3-1/2 bathroom Craftsman style custom home, designed for narrow lots of Cupertino and Palo Alto. But can be modified to fit any requirements.

This 2100 sq.ft. home was completely re-designed from 1 story ranch to meet Owner’s requirements. And add a 2nd floor with 3 new bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. We stepped in when Owner’s had a basic idea to expand living space for growing family and there was specific request to use design-build company, which will take care of the entire process from architectural drawings, engineering and construction.

Originally 2-story ranch style home had about 1600 sq.ft. and was in very poor condition and too small for the family of 4 and lot size wouldn’t allow to simply build a 1 story addition on a ground level. We decided to maximize the square footage to the maximum allowed in this zoning district providing 4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, 1 powder room, living room, dining room, open space kitchen with family room, keeping existing 2 car garage on a rear of the lot untouched, and to use Craftsman style for both exterior and interior.

Plans approval process took nine month with minimum plan check comments. We had to solve privacy issues and concerns of adjacent property neighbors, get through architectural committee, complete engineering plans and calculations, address California Green Building Tier 1 requirements, California Title 24 energy calculations,  and finally get construction permit approved.

Craftsman style home Wilton

Existing house was knocked down to the sub floor level and re-built from scratch, with 9′-2″ high ceiling on a first floor, all new structural plumbing, electrical with power upgrade to 200 amps, new sewer lines, new HVAC, upgraded gas meter, 4,5 kWt of Solar panels added on a roof.

Owner’s were very organized which help to maintain a project on a good pace, their response on  tasks that they were suppose to complete  and decision making process was super quick. They used a lot our online project management resource which helps to keep project communication, milestones and tasks organized. Therefore we’ve been able to order all long lead items right in time.

Interior used a lot of custom carpentry, engineered hardwood by Urban Floors, granite and caesarstone countertops by Bedrosians, designer tile by Porcelanosa USA, linear Napoleon fireplace.  On exterior we used a lot of exterior type trim for windows, doors and columns, faux beams, materials were provided by The Moulding Company, El Dorado stone on wainscoting around the house – Mesa Verde Mountain ledge with chiseled edge wainscot sill.

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Designer: Ilya Fedulov

Build by: Progress Builders

Goal of the project: Maximize living space, design 3 new bedrooms on 2nd floor, Guest bedroom on 1st floor, Living room, open space kitchen and Family room, keep 2 car garage, add formal Dining room,  powder room.

Permit approval process: 9 months

Completion time: 9 month. Feb 2016 – Nov 2016