Another original Rod Hartung design, this 1800’s early american home was renovated and remodeled by Sapia Builders in 2001.  

Hartung original
Most recently, we were asked back to enclose an all glass breezeway, connecting the home to the garage.  The entrance had proved through time to be the primary entry point to the home.  After a second master bedroom addition was built in 2005, the breezeway entrance gave little privacy to the the new work directly behind.

As is always the case in scenarios like this, it was important to keep with original lines and concepts to make this “enclosure” look original.  The thought was to extend the siding through while keeping the upper fascia board and adding in a french light fir door flanked by two transoms.  The back wall was also closed in while inserting one transom in the upper center of the wall, further surrounded by a built in bench with floor to ceiling shelving to create a more “mud-room” like entryway.  

An important part of design that I think gets overlooked often is consistency with divided light glass size.  In this case, we felt it was important that the glass in the transom windows was the same size as the glass in the french door.  Therefore we took it upon ourselves to make the transom from scratch in our shop.  You’ll notice that the glass size matches up exact and that the transoms were positioned to line up directly with the top row of glass in the french door.

Another important design note revolves around the trim of the door.  You’ll notice in the above picture that we’ve recessed the door into the upper fascia and built a small pediment over top.  We then continued the trim down the sides of the door casing.  The window sills on the transoms were also carried past the door casing to add small detail.


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