Colleen Healey Structure has revamped a house on a radial lot going through Washington DC’s Logan Circle, retaining historic particulars whereas updating the areas for up to date residing.

The renovated eight-bedroom home fronts Logan Circle, one of many metropolis’s grand rotaries that connects a number of main avenues, created as a part of engineer Pierre L’Enfant’s unique masterplan.

Because of its location, the traces of the constructing’s plan are subtly radial and due to this fact none of its partitions are parallel to at least one one other.

This proved a problem for native architect Colleen Healey, who had no selection however to embrace this and incorporate the bizarre parameters into the design.

“The results of the radial lot not solely knowledgeable design selections, however supplied inspiration for rounded references and different geometric subtleties,” stated the studio.

In-built 1883, the house’s three-story entrance part as soon as comprised an entry corridor, residing and eating room on the bottom ground, an proprietor’s suite and two spare bedrooms on the primary ground, and two additional bedrooms on the second.

The rear part is about at half ranges and options smaller rooms and decrease ceiling heights.

“A lot of the unique parts and bones of the home have been in nice form and our purchasers desired a mixture of historic attraction and trendy upgrades,” stated Healey.

The again portion obtained essentially the most consideration through the renovation, remade because the “coronary heart of the home” the place a big kitchen contains a U-shaped quartzite counter and a backyard room faces the patio.

Skylights have been created within the roof, permitting mild to scrub down unique brick partitions and thru gaps between wood ground joists uncovered above the kitchen.

For the reason that partitions are positioned at angles, wooden flooring was laid diagonally on this space.

An arched opening between the 2 sections of the home was prolonged to 10 ft, permitting a powder room and space for storing to be added behind its plaster surfaces.

“A brand new completed decrease degree and present bogs are upgraded with a mixture of classic and industrial attraction, mixing tastes of each purchasers and utilizing parts unique to the home each time doable,” Healey stated.

The upstairs bedrooms and bogs retained their darkish wooden window trims and shutters, baseboards and ornate fireplaces, however are refreshed with vivid white partitions and up to date lighting fixtures.

Nonetheless, within the major suite, the fireside was eliminated to make means for a widened headboard and artwork wall.

Within the remaining rooms, objects belonging to the purchasers are mixed with mid-century furnishings and minimal lighting to distinction the historic particulars.

“The result’s a contemporary sensibility that unites the previous and new areas and creates a hanging juxtaposition with the house’s structure,” the crew concluded.

This is not the primary time that Colleen Healey Structure has labored with an atypical lot. The studio beforehand restored and expanded an early Twentieth-century carriage home in Maryland, on a website formed like a smoking pipe.