Historic fixer-upper shifts into a more-contemporary aesthetic

Changing a lifestyle can be difficult but one couple did it with style. Mike and Kyong Swope went from a house of five thousand square feet to one in the sixteen hundred square feet range. But that wasn't the end of it. The house needed a lot of work, so the Swopes jumped in with both feet. They raised the house, redid the foundation, moved it forward five feet and added some rooms. They kept the old charm of the house while giving it a lovely face lift

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Architect Eric Gedney was tasked with remodeling the Swope’s home and he ended up adding a new wing for a family room and garage.
Gedney, the architect, states that the remodeling was a substantial update that required a lot of time being spent on how to make the addition not very imposing.
The former kitchen was remodeled to be a new office and a diamond-shaped window was relocated from the upstairs closet to the front of the home.

“Inside and out, upstairs and down, from the bigger backyard to the smaller one in front, the Swopes’ new old home is both thoughtfully traditional and coolly contemporary.”