These Atlanta clients have undergone several small renovations and additions to their home over the years. Now, they are coming to Jones Pierce to help them bring cohesiveness to their ranch style home. They are hoping this renovation will transform their home into a Lifetime Home for their family. To add cohesiveness to the ranch home, we started by re-organizing the first level, opening up space for a Mother-in-Law Suite. The new living space opens the home up to woods at t

Front View of the Boys and Girls Club The Grand Opening of the Teen Center was a huge success! All of us at Jones Pierce are extremely honored to be a part of such a great organization and are thrilled with the outcome of the project. Thank you to all of the team members who helped make this project successful. Here are some photos of the completed project: Guests and members will enter the Boys and Girls Club to a lobby space. Just past the lobby is a multi-purpose space fo

Construction is complete on 1139 Lanier Blvd! This is the second house at Lanier Enclave, also referred to as “Middle House.” Lanier Enclave is a development in Virginia Highlands containing 3 prairie-themed custom homes. All three homes are built by Abraham Properties. This home is currently for sale through Palmer House Properties. Check out these images of the Middle House: This home sits right in between the other two Lanier homes. The front yard includes a carport and an

Dunwoody Ranch Facelift A Dunwoody Ranch gets a front yard facelift when a new entry and courtyard takes cues from Japanese Zen gardens, while maintaining handicapped accessibility. From the approach, the transformation begins at the new exposed aggregate driveway. The driveway gets interrupted by radiating bands of sandstone finished concrete, whose axis are centered on one embedded flagstone paver. From there, the new frosted glass garage door and timber pergola add anoth

Assessing Our Living Situations Whether it is the economic fall out of former homeowners expanding the rental market, or retired Baby Boomers shedding the burden of maintaining houses, or the increasing rental population of Millennials, rental space is in demand. Given the current situation of the post-real estate bubble burst, now would be a good time to assess our living conditions. We need to ask ourselves, what should the next generation of living environments be like? Le

What do you do when the survey indicates your house is built over the setback? Are your expansion plans shot down in flames? Alex, I’ll take Zoning Ordinances for $500. “These allow for expansion of structures in non-conforming situations by reducing zoning restrictions for extenuating circumstances.” “What are variances?” You are correct! Your dream home in a historical neighborhood (i.e. Inman Park) would be perfect if you could add an extra room. Do you understand the re

Industries provide more information to assess their products than potential home buyers have at their disposal. It is crazy if you think that most people’s largest investment is their house. It’s not just the mortgage system that needs help, but the appraisals that mortgages are based on that need fixing. If we had a better system of assessing the value of a house and the property it sits on independent of one another, the real estate bubbles we witnessed would not be so infl

Construction has completed at at Monastic Heritage Center! This was a great project with awesome clients. It’s tough to see it end, but it’s always nice to see the final photographs. Take a minute to browse through our final images of the Monastic Heritage Center project at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. Hope you enjoy! All photographs are copyright 2011 by Lee Grider Photography. The challenge for this project was to transform an old barn compound into

Our recently completed custom home in Dothan, Alabama was published in the latest edition of the local magazine Wiregrass Living. Wiregrass chose to feature this project because of it’s focus on sustainability. The most prominent “green” feature in this project is the array of solar panels in the rear yard of the Dothan home. Click the images below to read the article: Back to JonesPierce.com #Dothan #residentialarchitecture #published #JonesPierceStudios #sustainability

Determining the Sustainability Prescription for Your Home Renovation Large overhangs shade this Lake Lanier home’s large windows which maximize view and natural light. Sustainable building Sustainability is the new frontier of residential design and construction. Key stakeholders are working hard to have a say in what is green and why. Government has been quick to incent sustainable building. And most importantly, owners are increasingly asking for it. Everyone involved in a

Are you trying to sell your house? Have you found the perfect house, but it needs some help? Love the location but not the home? Let Jones Pierce help you with the Not So Extreme Makeover! Back to JonesPierce.com #remodel #residentialarchitecture #notsoextrememakeover #JonesPierceStudios #renovation #Atlantaarchitects #homemakeout

A Home for the Pro One of Atlanta’s premeir home builders is bringing back a long neglected historic home in Ansley Park for John Wieland. Jones Pierce conducted due diligence to understand the life of the house and make sense of its many renovations and additions over the years. This helped us make decisions about what to preserve, what to recreate, and what to discard from the Wieland Residence. Through our research we uncovered forgotten details, both architectural and of