Harmon Residence

PROJECT DETAILS

Renovation + Addition

2,800 SF

2023

Kernersville, North Carolina

COLLABORATORS

Millworker: Sunnyside Millwork

Strucutral Engineer: Select Engineering

Landscape Architect: Revington Reeves

Photography: Stephanie Berbec

This project is comprised of a complete gut renovation and front and rear addition to an existing ranch home. The goal was to reimagine the residence with an emphasis on light, flow, and connection to the landscape. The design reorganizes the interior to maximize on daylight and spatial clarity, responding to the client’s life as a steel erector and musician by creating an environment that balances precision, creativity, and calm. A new rear addition is defined by a broad, clipped gable roof, that extends from the main house and reorients the focus toward the garden beyond.

  • Sliding and pocketing glass doors connect the interior and exterior living spaces.

  • Natural materials were used to contrast the man-made elements and add warmth to the entry.

  • Custom millwork bar and interior wall cladding.

  • Foyer.

The sunken living room is connected to the screened porch with large pocketing sliding doors, completely blurring the spaces together on nicer days. Interior finishes include smoke-stained ash, walnut, and slate tile to establish a retrained yet expressive material palette.

Structural steel was integrated throughout, including the front entry canopy, rear screened porch and rear entry. The steel was custom detailed to include a recessed wood insert to soften and connect to the surrounding wood soffits. The home’s backdrop is a lush, public garden which provides a soft contrast to the dark façade. This project reinterprets the ranch typology without erasing it, staying true to the grounded, intentional, and quietly expressive nature.

Work done at Friend Architecture & Design

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