Jennifer Eberline and her husband wanted a home that was not on the market if they didn't know where to look. But with a little help from a broker and a designer, both with extensive architectural knowledge, the family wanted to have what they wanted.
In 2017, Eberline casually worked with her real estate agent Andrea Hubbell to find more space for her family of four. Hubbell showed her three or four houses, including a large four-over 4-over-rugby road at three quarters of one morning.
None of the real estate seemed to be completely right, but Hubbell pushed to the location of the Rugby road. Sure, it was overgrown, dilapidated, extensive and poorly planned, but with the right kind of love and attention it could be perfect for the needs of Eberlines.
“We were really only in a kind of discovery phase,” says Eberline. “But when we opened the link and sent Andrea, she was just right. We couldn't see it. “
The Eberlines worked with Hubbell through a whirlwind sales and purchase process and were in their new home within weeks. The first line -up was cleaning up – flaws, organization and landscape design. The next step: fill up the financial health insurers before making some major renovation work.
The biggest design error bought in the new house AS was a hastily connected garage. The garage was built as a naughty building and was later thrown into the kitchen of the house in a way, which it couldn't be able to optimize space and river. By 2021, the Eberlines were ready to make the changes that Hubbell had helped them in 2017.
Enter Hubbell's husband. Brian Hubbell is the main design force for the husband-and-wife team, who is Hubbhouse, a company that increasingly markets the couple as a real estate and renovation service from soup.
For the Eberlines, Hubbell had many ideas on how to improve the rugby road house. He created a design that increases the low, 7-foot ceilings so far and feels airy and bright, without changing the physical footprint of the kitchen. An enlarged utter window, pink terracotta and white oak cabinets contribute to the lighter feeling, and the Eberlines say that they can now use the space and move through the room in a more sensitive way.
“The challenges were the same that we see in so many houses that added over the decades,” says Hubbell. “The connections are not as thoughtful as they should be. It was this claustrophobic, dark room. They cook and spend a lot of their life in the kitchen – the children who come home to make their homework and science experiments, baking projects and nightly dinner and coffee in the morning. The challenge was how we feel this room twice as big? “
Other renovation work followed the kitchen project. Hubbhouse redesigned the primary suite of the Eberlines on the upper floor and gave the room an improved layout and river again without changing its footprint. The second bathroom on the upper floor also received a conversion.
In the basement, Hubbhouse and the family for a project that they would like to call them as a secret and converted a partially completed place into a fitness room, a guest room, a bathroom and a speakeasy. Dwell Construction acted as a contractor for each of the renovation processes, and Eberline says that the group remained in the budget restrictions on their family with a lot of help.
“Brian is an incredible partner and not only works with us, but also with the lingering team,” says Eberline. “No matter what the project is, it is such a careful architect. He spent the time to understand the nuances of the project and how we needed the rooms to work – how they move through them and how they live their lives. “
For the part of the Hubbells, Brian admits that he has a certain aesthetics and knows that his design perspective is not ideal for everyone. If you are looking for the Victorian revival, it does not offer your type as an example. But Andrea says she and Brian hope that in certain situations, their combination of architecture, real estate and design knowledge together with a portion of openness and true cooperation-the market for buyers who are looking for the fair space can open up the market.
At least to Eberline, the work relationship was ideal for her and her family.
“It was such a fun project,” she says. “We have an aesthetics ourselves – we tend to be a little more traditional – but Brian met us where we were. We love his modern touches and he has managed to achieve a balance between these and the history and the traditional details of the house. “