Sometimes a customer has a strong idea of what they want their home to feel like, and the builder is left to fill in many details. This home's challenge was translating the owner's subjective impressions - and a few drawings - into an integrated home. The home's final design exploits an extraordinary lot with inviting back and side porches. The same kind of openness works inside the house as each room leads seamlessly to the next. Innovative casework sets apart the house as it opens sight lines into adjacent rooms.
Sometimes an owner's vision is best found in the details, such as a preference for a particular style of kitchen arrangement or perhaps cabinet features. The builder's job is to help shape that vision into a coherent whole, where the general lives up to the specific. By putting the customer's interests first and central to every decision, Baird Snyder was able to execute a design that maintains the original vision flowing from room to room and floor to floor.
The best homes include a sense of place and even of pace. One of the most important decisions of this home occurred long before the first construction. At Baird's suggestion, the site of the structure was moved to a different spot in the property, exploiting higher sight lines that seem to exclude the busy world not far away. A long porch welcomes warmth and reflection. The interior brings to mind a country manor - relaxed, elegant, savoring life on your own terms.
A great home doesn't stop at the structure, but includes the whole property. Working with an architect - and a customer's desire for extensive gardens - this home not only accommodates the surrounding land, but celebrates it. A comfortable porch sits alongside a manicured walkway leading to an indoor garden. Within the walls, each room is warmed by expansive views and shaped by craftsmanship and elegance. Extensive use of casework and custom-milled trim integrates each room into the whole structure, just as the structure integrates into the whole property.
A distinctive home is often enjoyed in the details, the distinctive flavors that bring unity to a home while setting it apart from so many others. Arches in doorways are found again in kitchen cabinets and again in the wine cellar. Extensive custom casework unifies both personality and function throughout the home. Bringing a customer's strong sense of design to life, bold statements begin in the structure and culminate in the final finishing appointments - consistent and compelling down to the last detail.
Baird Snyder Inc. is a builder of custom houses, additions and renovations. Baird is a 1983 University of Virginia graduate and has lived in Charlottesville or Albemarle County ever since. He began his building career immediately after graduation and started his company in 1990. A good custom builder must do much more than simply build. The first step is to establish expectations, and then fulfill and exceed them. This requires getting to know customers, understanding their sense of design as well as the unique challenges of every project.
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