1964 mid-century modern home Cherry Hill NJ before and after renovation — floating roof plane horizontal masonry golf course setting J Reinert Architecture

MID-CENTURY MODERN — REVISITED

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

The house already knew what it wanted to be. Sixty years of updates had just made it hard to see.

Before renovation dining room mid-century modern home Cherry Hill NJ — carpet dated finishes enclosed layout disconnected from original architecture 1964
Before renovation living room mid-century modern home Cherry Hill NJ — dated interior finishes obscuring original wood ceiling clerestory windows horizontal structure 1964

The house before renovation — finishes and updates that had obscured sixty years of authentic mid-century modern architecture

Renovated dining room mid-century modern home Cherry Hill NJ — clerestory windows wood ceiling garden views oak slat screen atrium J Reinert Architecture

Moving the dining room into the central atrium — where the light, the ceiling, and the views actually are — wasn't a renovation decision. It was a correction. The old dining room space became a mudroom and walk-in pantry. One move, two problems solved.

Renovated mid-century modern entry spine Cherry Hill NJ — floor-to-ceiling glass wall oak slat screens wood ceiling marble console horizontal views J Reinert Architecture

The oak slat screen became the organizing idea for the whole house — defining spaces without closing them, filtering light without blocking it, giving the interior the same layered quality the original architect put into the exterior.

The living room had always been the heart of this house. The renovation returned it to that role — cleared of everything that had been added over the decades, and restored to the horizontal openness the original architect intended.

Renovated mid-century modern living room floating fireplace Cherry Hill NJ — exposed steel structure clerestory windows brick oak slat screens rear garden views spatial depth J Reinert Architecture

Every space in this house is in conversation with every other. That was the original idea. This is what it looks like when you honor the original Idea and make it work for todays contemporary family lifestyle.

Renovated 1964 mid-century modern home dusk front entry Cherry Hill NJ — floating roof plane warm wood soffit oak slat screen glass facade landscape lighting J Reinert Architecture

This is what the house had been waiting to become.

Mid-century modern homes are being demolished every day in towns like Cherry Hill and Moorestown — cleared for new construction before anyone stops to ask what's being lost. A cookie cutter developer home rises out of the dirt. This one was saved by a family who was moved by the architecture and jumped at the opportunity to make it their home.

Design discussion, floor plans, and the full before + after gallery’s

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