Design Awards 2011 - Homes

Best Overall Home

Small Remodel (Under 1,000 Square Feet)

Large Remodel (Over 1,000 Square Feet)

Addition Project

Vacation Home (Under 3,000 Square Feet)

Vacation Home (Over 3,000 Square Feet)

Vacation Home

New Model Home

Contemporary Architecture (Under 4,000)

Contemporary Architecture (Over 4,000)

Traditional Architecture (Under 4,000)

Traditional Architecture (Over 4,000)

Historic Residential Renovation/Restoration

This article appears in the Spring 2011 issue of Detroit Home Magazine.

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// Spring 2011


First Visbeen Associates - Shingle-style details and stone accents give this contemporary home a look of days gone by. The graceful entrance leads to a spacious foyer, kitchen, and large living room with a long bank of windows designed to capture the view. Nearby is a private retreat/master bedroom suite and study. Second-story, family-focused space includes four additional bedrooms. A large screen porch and expansive deck allow outdoor entertaining.	Second VanBrouck & Associates
Third (tie) Young & Young Architects / Artisans Group	Third (tie) VanBrouck & Associates


First McIntosh Poris Associates / GSC Design Associates - A mansard-roofed house was transformed into a contemporary home with a "Zen boathouse" feel. Interior walls were replaced by beams and columns. Brick was covered with horizontal cedar, and a porch was added above the garage. A zinc-coated aluminum hip roof replaced the mansard. A shoji-influenced garage door defines the building as Zen-modern.	Second (tie) Kathleen McGovern Studio of Interior Design / Mark Johnson & Associates
Second (tie) The Blake Co.	Third Jeffrey King Interiors / Wechsler Construction


First McIntosh Poris Associates / GSC Design Associates - An upper-level addition transformed this house from a dated '60s mansard-roofed style into a contemporary retreat.	Second (tie) CBI Design Professionals
Second (tie) Mainstreet Design Build	Third (tie) Michelle Maly
Third (tie) Earth Environments / Advantage Carpentry	Third (tie) CBI Design Professionals


First Allegretti Architects / Lamar Construction - A LEED Platinum, 2,400-square-foot home on a steep Lake Michigan site is a Swiss Family Robinson three-level style that includes a two-story screen porch. Natural lake ventilation and a geothermal heat pump system provide temperature control.	First (cont'd)
Second Visbeen Associates	Third (tie) Visbeen Associates
Third (tie) Visbeen Associates


First McIntosh Poris Associates / Caden Design Group - A bungalow that had been altered over time was updated on the exterior to better fit its neighborhood. Dated vinyl windows were replaced. The second floor was transformed from a dark maze into an airy suite. The kitchen received new cabinets, island, and fixtures. An attached nook has new built-ins and finishes.	Second CBI Design Professionals
Third Tutto Interiors


First AMDG Architects - This Shingle-style Lake Michigan summer home was designed to accommodate visiting family. Living spaces maximize lake views, particularly the main area, which flows to a deck overlooking lawn and water. Foot traffic from the lake and driveway collect at a side entry, which has direct access to a bunkroom above the garage.	Second Visbeen Associates
Third Visbeen Associates


First Diane Hancock Designs - In a temperate climate that allows the blending of indoors and out, floating glass walls disappear into support pillars and remote-control screens descend for insect protection. Aside from the master bedroom, the entire oceanfront-facing wall retracts. Walls between rooms were minimized to columns to maximize views.	Second Kathleen McGovern Studio of Interior Design / Mark Johnson
Third VanBrouck & Associates


First VanBrouck & Associates - This luxury "high-country" Craftsman-style model home accommodates active lifestyles within the style of timeless architecture with historical references. Rustic details include natural stone, shake siding, rough hand-hewn beams, and wide-plank distressed-wood floors.	Second Lombardo Homes
Third Lombardo Homes


First McIntosh Poris Associates - A "Zen boathouse" aesthetic was achieved through use of natural woods and references to Japanese architecture and construction. Douglas-fir columns and beams, as well as cedar shutters and siding, lend a warm, contemporary feeling to the 2,300-square-foot home. The existing garage has a Japanese shoji-screen-like glass door that glows after dark.	Second GETA Design / JD Webster Construction


First Young & Young Architects / Artisans Group - This contemporary home and its site, furnishings, landscaping, and art are designed as one complete expression. The residence is currently seeking the highest level of Platinum certification. Heating and cooling is geothermal, electricity is supplemented by solar, a graywater system stores and provides filtration for non-potable future reuse.	Second Visbeen Associates
Third Visbeen Associates


First HF: Architecture - This cottage-style, three-level home has a scale and composition that fits its wooded setting. A wraparound covered porch and screen porch provide a connection to the grounds. Inside, the open great room, kitchen, and nook, with exposed, stained-wood timber beams, frame views of the site. Two large-boulder window wells bring the landscape experience to the lower level.	Second CBI Design Professionals
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First VanBrouck & Associates - This "high-country" Craftsman-style home was designed for comfortable living and entertaining. The design integrates interior and exterior spaces and includes covered verandas on the main and upper levels. The home has a gaming room and theater. Outside are a natural-boulder lagoon pool, kitchen, cabana bar, and stone fireplace.	Second VanBrouck & Associates
Third Visbeen Associates


First Fine Finishing - Many of the original Italianate elements of this 1874-built house had been removed. Eave brackets, cornices, and porch columns were replicated based on old photographs of the home. The entire painted exterior was stripped, exposing original Southern yellow-pine clapboards. Windows were reglazed and replaced with original farm glass.	(Before)