Outdoor Living
Nashville Retreat: Year-Round Screened Porch
A screened porch built around a masonry fireplace and exposed beams, designed to stay comfortable well past the end of the Tennessee summer.
Taking an older East Nashville house back to the frame always uncovers something. Wiring from another era, framing changed by somebody decades ago, floors that have found their own level. We budget a contingency conversation into projects like this from the first walkthrough, so that discoveries arrive as a plan and a number rather than an awkward phone call.
The layout work concentrated on how the ground floor connected, opening the circulation between the rooms the family uses daily while leaving the front of the house recognisably itself.
Systems were replaced throughout, which is the unglamorous half of a renovation like this and the half that changes how the house lives.
