An expansive rear elevation solution that combines a pinnacle tier grilling deck and eating pavilion with an open-air decrease level patio that boasts a complete bar, TV, and billiards has received a “Contractor of the Year” (COTY) award, or Michael Nash Design Build and Homes. The layout answer—in which a rear deck has been replaced with a -tier lodging that offers a wide variety of doors leisure components– changed into the house of an Ashburn couple, who had bought the assets numerous years ago.
The mission turned into named metro Washington’s “Best Exterior” via the National Association of the Remodeling Industry’s Metro DC bankruptcy. In accepting the prize, Michael Nash, president and founder Sonny Nazemian become short of acknowledging his company’s excessive-performance layout group, which grappled with numerous site and interior layout challenges. Developing a greater pleasing courting among a house and its setting is increasingly more a pinnacle priority to local owners as they continue to occupy their homes,” the remodeler observes. “Northern Virginians love the temperate weather and rich green surroundings, so finding practical, aesthetically-eye-catching methods to attach the house with what’s just outside the door is a strong local hobby– especially as spring turns into summertime.”
Owners of the nearly 5,000 rectangular foot residence had been specifically searching for a bendy indoor/outdoor answer that might higher rationalize the connection between the residence and an in-floor pool brought ultimate 12 months. The plan is known for organic approaches of segmenting doors play location’s from numerous formal and casual dining zones.
We were looking for an answer on the way to paintings properly for 6 or seven months of the yr,” Nazemian provides. “This is the actual essence of effective indoor-out of doors layout.” Aesthetics being a major consideration, the design group exercised superb care while combining colors and textures into elevations and surfaces that complement the natural setting. The deeper satisfaction for the owners, although, is the superbly articulated indoor-out of doors layout with its many properly-described, cleverly-incorporated activity zones, to wit:
• Designed to supplement an in-floor pool, the plan functions as an eating pavilion and grilling deck at the pinnacle stage. There is a blanketed patio with a 5-seat bar, plasma TV, and a billiards table, one level underneath. A wrought-iron spiral staircase facilitates site visitors between the 2 levels.
• The shaded decrease patio gives a pub-like atmosphere entire with a beer faucet, seating for six, a plasma TV, and a pro-caliber billiards table; the top degree features an eating veranda linked to the kitchen and an open-air grilling deck.
• A flagstone-rimmed planter presentations azaleas and different spring flora. Stone is now the integral thing that marries the revamped exterior to new hardscaping that wraps the pool.
• Doric columns with recessed panels add beauty to the open-air setting. The unifying motif keeps to the open-air grilling deck. Flooring is wood-patterned porcelain tile. The sliding glass door segues into a circle of relatives room with a fire.
• The built-in bar is equipped with an under-counter fridge and a bar faucet. The spiral stairway helps get right of entry from the pinnacle tier. The pearl tone porcelain tiles offer a tonal complement to the knotty grey stain ceiling–softly illuminating the scene, even on rainy days.
• The wrought-iron spiral staircase additionally gives direct get admission to the again backyard and poolside decking.
