The Atlanta Music Project strives to expose children and teens throughout the City of Atlanta to classical orchestral and choral music. It also provides quality, intensive, and tuition-free music education to our city’s under-served youth. Jones Pierce Studios has had the exceptional opportunity to work with the founders and board of Atlanta Music Project. We have been working to identify a vision and set goals for a physical home for AMP. Check out what they are doing and ho

Jones Pierce has won a national Chrysalis Remodeling Award! Jones Pierce is among the eighty-four remodeling companies from across the United States to be named winners at the 2016 Chrysalis Awards for Remodeling Excellence. The award judged entries on overall design, the creative use of space and materials, and the degree to which the project enhanced the original structure. The Chrysalis Awards program begun in 1994. It recognizes the nation’s best work in fifteen general c

Trust, but Verify Quality Control of High Performance Insulation & Sealing on a Full-House Renovation Even when you hire the best talent, it still takes a team approach to produce the highest quality finished project. We snapped some photos, as seen below, at a Jones Pierce job site this week. This project is a complete renovation & addition residential project in a North Atlanta neighborhood. The house has already been sheathed then insulated with open cell foam. At this poi

Construction Progress – Modern TransformationConstruction is well underway on a modern transformation of a mid-century home. This home is located on a steep, wooded upper Chastain hillside. The exterior walls and roofs are intact and the interior walls are ready for solid partitions. This project features the use of planar site retaining walls to create a modern patio layout in the back yard. We’re really excited about this project and we’ll keep you abreast of its’ progress

The owner of a period ranch house in Morningside realized her house no longer fit her needs or lifestyle. It had awkward circulation, too small of a kitchen, not enough parking, and on and on. However, she loved the neighborhood and location and did not want to move. Therefore, she contacted Jones Pierce to explore her renovation options. We had a blast renovating this home. Our client is very satisfied with the result! View some before and after images of the Morningside hom

Living in Harmony with Your Home An organized mudroom organizes your life. The Classic Case of “Muddling Through” There are many patterns that every home owner is a part of. As I toured a potential clients’ home for the first time, I recognized the classic 1990’s residential architecture entry pattern. Either I could chose the “friends entry,” use a direct route from the driveway, or hike to the front door on the other side of the yard. I was directed to the friendly approach

Families’ First Back in 2014, Jones Pierce was asked to transform a former Atlanta Public Schools building (est. 1928) into the new headquarters for Families’ First. This organization is a prominent and highly regarded Atlanta-based family services foundation. For the last 125 years, they have been providing empowering solutions for Atlanta’s most vulnerable population by connecting, strengthening and sustaining families. This large scale adaptive reuse project protected an

Earlier this month, our first completed passive house was featured in Lake Martin’s Lake Magazine. Our goal is to constantly design better houses for our clients and this is a big step towards accomplishing this. Check out the article and learn how this design approach can use less energy and save you money! Click the images to enlarge and read more. Download the PDF here. Bryan Jones #PassiveHouse #residentialarchitecture #published #LakeMartin #JonesPierceStudios

A lot of building construction has occurred in the years since Jones Pierce has been around. Specifically, development, housing, and mixed-use have exploded with growth in the 2000’s. Hundreds, if not thousands, of projects were proposed, with only a select few making it to fruition. We had the privilege of working on several of those projects, ranging from single family houses to large scale city developments. However, only a select number of people were able to see many of

Construction is nearly complete on our renovation home in Big Canoe, Georgia. This home originally had several chopped up rooms with small windows, which did not take advantage of the incredible views. Plans are to open up the public spaces add larger fixed windows, create 2 spacious master suites with larger windows, and add a double height heavy timber porch off the rear of the home. We are also updating the dated front of the home with a new stair tower and heavy timber e

One of our most efficient homes we’ve designed yet, this custom home in Brookhaven, was designed with “Not So Big House” strategies. The lot for the Atlanta Not So Big House is in a changing neighborhood. This neighborhood has been replacing smaller dilapidated homes with several new homes, either built or currently under construction. Our concept for the southern colonial vernacular home was to position it on this prominent corner lot to look as if it had been there for dec

The construction is taking off on a custom home we designed in Brookhaven, off Lanier Drive. The exterior is almost complete, with only the front porch columns left to install. Trim has now begun on the interior. Seven years ago, we designed this house for a different lot but never built it. In 2011, after purchasing a new property, the client came back to us to help adapt the original design. We then got busy, tweaking the plans and elevations as needed for the new lot. The

A renovation to a 1980’s home in Big Canoe is underway. The home originally had several chopped up rooms with small windows. The home was not taking advantage of the incredible views Big Canoe has to offer. Our plans are to open up the public spaces, add larger fixed windows, create 2 spacious master suites with larger windows, add a double height heavy timber porch off the rear of the home, and update the dated front of the home with a new stair tower and heavy timber entry

Construction has begun on the 1st plaza along the Prayer Path at the Monastery. A series of 5 plazas will line the path from the Monastic Heritage Center to the Monastery and Abbey Church. Each plaza will feature rough-sawn board formed concrete walls with blue stone panels/plaques commemorating donors and/or their loved ones. The following images are water color renderings of our proposed design for the Prayer Path and individual plazas. The water colors were done by Iain St

A few progress photos from our Big Canoe project currently under construction. Lots of big changes are taking place, including a new heavy timber entry porch and a new 2 story heavy timber rear porch. Additionally, we are doing significant interior renovation and adding new larger windows. These photos help show existing conditions of Big Canoe Project with construction progress photos. Tearing out an old greenhouse on a floor level in between the first and basement floors a

This custom “Not so Big House” design has a great story behind it. Located on a tight corner lot in the Lynwood park neighborhood of Brookhaven, the concept behind the design is a home that looks as if it has been here for decades. Additionally, it appears as if the neighborhood developed around it. The Home Design A southern facing front porch orients the house towards the corner and creates a side entry porch from the east facade similar to a Charleston home. A tight budge

The final home at Lanier Enclave, a 3 custom home infill residential development in Virginia Highlands neighborhood, is complete! The home was built by Joe Laster with Abraham Properties. The Unique Style The “southern modern” style of the home is perfect for older Atlanta neighborhoods, like Virginia Highlands. The warm brick exterior relates nicely to the traditional tudor homes on the street. A stepped massing at the front allows it to fit in nicely with the scale of the 1

A Marietta client came to Jones Pierce looking for ideas to update the curb appeal of his split level home. His goal was not to renovate or remodel the interior spaces. Rather, he wanted update the exterior appearance of his home through minor cosmetic changes. The Not So Extreme Makeover The client found our Not So Extreme Makeover which allows us, as architects, to get involved no matter what the budget is. The process is an affordable way to get ideas for improving your ho

Here are before and after images of a few renovations we have completed over the past few years: See our portfolio page of various sized renovations. Back to the JP Blog Back to JonesPierce.com #beforeandafter #JonesPierceStudios #residentialarchitecture #Residentialrenovation

Is there room for more? We currently have a client, a young couple, who lives in a Virginia Highlands bungalow. They love their home and would never want to leave it. However, with a baby on the way, the home will soon be too small for the family. With the assistance of CORE Landscape Architects, we are helping this couple expand their Virginia Highlands home to make room for a family, while keeping the charm and character of the original bungalow. Expanding the Bungalow The