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Sandringham Residence

Remodel & Additions to a Single-Family Residence | Houston, TX | 2014

Gravel driveway winding through the wooded site.

 

Front entry courtyard with reclaimed fountain and slender-silhouette sweetgum trees beyond.

Front entry hall with random versaillles pattern reclaimed stone floor, and interior courtyard beyond.

 

Stone path to the interior gravel courtyard shaded by single trunk river birches.

 

Typical interior passage with continuous plaster walls merging into vaulted ceilings and arched openings.

Reclaimed fireplace surround over kitchen cooktop, with daylighting from dormer window centered above.

 

Family room with heavy timber vaulted ceiling continuing from adjacent kitchen, and a high dormer window letting in daylight from above the attached covered porch.

 

Covered porch and family room overlooking the side-yard and pool terrace, with the interior courtyard and front wing of the house visible beyond.

Interior gavel courtyard shaded by single trunk river birch trees.

 

Steel french doors between Living Room and front entry courtyard.

Interior corridor to entry, with random Versailles pattern reclaimed stone floor, and plaster walls and arched ceilings.

 

Stone pool terrace, with covered porch, family room and kitchen beneath the one-story clay-tile roofs beyond.