CENTER HALL - INDUSTRIAL MINIMALISM
Haddonfield, New Jersey
A storm started it. Intention finished it.
A massive shade tree came down in a storm and tore through the roof and brick. What could have been a repair became a reason to rethink everything.
The old kitchen had a side door punched directly into it and a powder room wedged between it and the garage — functional accidents that muddled the brick elevation outside and the plan inside. Removing that damaged masonry and adding just three feet created an entirely new cross axis: a proper side entry, a relocated powder room, and a circulation spine connecting kitchen to family room to rear yard. The cherry pantry tower isn't decoration — it defines the boundary between kitchen and movement through the house.
The old side entry was a dark afterthought into the kitchen. This became the primary arrival — light, connected to the street, anchoring a new circulation axis through the house.
The family room had been closed off from the yard by the original addition. Floor-to-ceiling Pella fiberglass windows on two walls replaced it — the corner dissolves, the garden comes in, and the room finally connects to the outdoor terrace it was always meant to share.
The addition was already there. It just wasn't working — closed off from the yard, disconnected from the rooms beside it, styled in a way that satisfied neither the original colonial nor any clear idea of its own. We kept the footprint and resolved it: Pella fiberglass windows floor to ceiling, a material palette that commits to a point of view, and doors that finally open the house to the garden it was ignoring.