PROJECTS: Design Solutions | By KJ Fields
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Whole-house project
nearly doubles the
size of the home,
allowing for main
foor living and better
entertaining space
into a full suite. After searching for a
new house, the homeowners were drawn
back to the advantages of their current
location — more than two acres of land
that backed up to a community park,
extensive landscaping and ownership of
an adjacent vacant lot. The couple engaged
an architect and Magleby Construction in
Lindon, Utah, to help them create a master
bedroom on the main floor.
fter their children were grown,
a couple in Highland, Utah,
took an interest in main floor
living. They tired of climbing
a staircase to reach their
master bedroom, but no room on the
ground floor was large enough to remodel
Craig Hassel, vice president of Remodel
at Magleby, was the superintendent on the
job. "The plan was to convert the existing
garage into the master suite and then build
a new, larger garage on the vacant lot and
shift the property line to include the new
garage," Hassel recalls.
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MULTIUSE SPACE
The master suite in the former garage
includes a bathroom with a large shower and
soaking tub with a separate area for the toilet, a walk-in closet and custom cherry wood
cabinetry. The new garage was intended to
serve many purposes. The owner wanted a
"clean" garage reserved for two cars but also
desired a larger space to protect additional
items. The solution was a 30-ft.-long divided
structure, oriented with the two-car garage
facing the road while two additional garage
door openings were placed on the far side to
access the back space. Below half the structure, under a suspended slab, a new staircase
leads to a finished basement that stores the
owner's craft items.