The Witte Home

 

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Location: Concord, NC ● Year: 2017

 
 

details

4 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, Laundry, 1,710 sf

sustainability

Solar Panel Ready, Solar Gain Mitigation

 

The Story

This was a tricky one. How to squeeze 5 family members into 1,710 sf and make it feel spacious? How to make it feel open and luxuries on a shoestring budget? And how to harness Toby’s design fervor and focus his attention on these goals? For this was a house for his family. Let’s just say the stakes were high.

As for understanding our clients, he had a leg up.

He structured the home around three ideas: Give the daughters each a spacious room on the top floor and let them stick out from each other with connecting windows, so that the sisters always have a sense of each other. Create a loft environment downstairs where the parents’ private spaces overlap with the public family spaces through sliding panels and a signature wall. Eliminate all square-feet-robbing walk-in closets and instead provide a slew of built-in wardrobes, niches, and shelving.

team

Builder: Toby Witte, Wittehaus Eco

Custom Staircase : Adam Jochim, Pitch and Burl

Structural Engineers: IDE Structural Engineers

Photography: Dustin Peck

 

status

currently

Moved In ● Published ● Award

 

steps taken so far

  • lot purchase

  • site visits

  • precedent search

  • design goal review

  • concept sketches

  • design charette

  • design

  • technical development

  • kitchen and bath layouts

  • interior design

  • structural design

  • utility and lighting design

  • construction drawings

  • construction

  • material selections

  • appliance selections

  • fixture selections

  • stainless ounter design

  • landscaping

  • move-in

  • open house

  • photography

  • publishing

  • award

“This house feels like we’ve lived here our entire life.”
— Lily Witte, Daughter

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awardS

 
modernist homes matsumoto prize
 
 

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