The Split Level Home Unleashed by production builders in the 60’s and 70’s, split level homes are the most difficult type of house to transform into the way our customers want to live today. At the same time, these homes are also in the current sweet spot for in-town renovations because of their location on the growth rings of cities. Typically, split level homes are good candidates for an architectural intervention. They are close to town, and they have a reasonable cost bas

Here are the latest interior construction progress photos from our project, Lanier Enclave Middle House. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of September. The home is being built by Abraham Properties and is for sale here. The exterior of Lanier Middle House is complete, shifting all focus to the interior. Take note of the window design detail! On the interior, all trim-work and built-in shelving is complete. This construction crew is doing a great job paying

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

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

Back to the Renovation Financing Future In “the day” of the housing bubble the financial viability of a project was the last check mark on our list to determine viability. As architects we worried about making sure the changes were exactly what our clients needed. We also made sure the context was right with the neighborhood. Then, we checked the comparable after renovation values of homes in the neighborhood to our proposed design. We acted responsible to keep our clients

This residence is a Southern Colonial themed home created with a unique thought process. The house sits on a 2-lot site overlooking the Brookhaven Country Club. Our clients wished foremost to capture a bit of their native Louisiana. Therefore, after a year-long planning process, the result is a home that projects the timeless authenticity of deep south architecture. However, it still incorporates the most up-to-the-minute sustainable building technology in an unobtrusive way.

The following are still images from a video fly through animation of a new vacation and future retirement home in Highlands, North Carolina. We love repeat clients, and have had the opportunity to work for this client on other jobs in the past, and hopefully more to come. The home is located up a site with a steep slope over looking the mountains. Because of the challenging grade, the home’s design has a very small footprint. This locates all the living spaces on the upper le

We have just completed construction on 1141 Lanier Blvd, our first LEED certified home! This is the first home of Lanier Enclave, a 3 custom home development in Virginia Highlands. We refer to this home as “Creek House.” The unique pie shape of the “Creek House” comes from tight lot restrictions that include a 75′-0″ stream buffer to the side of the home. The classic Prairie style home fits well into the old Atlanta neighborhood, but also brings touches of modern living and d

Recent clients from Montana got in touch with Jones Pierce to help them create a “not so big” retirement home for them. The site is located in the Big Canoe community of North Georgia, near Jasper. The home not only incorporates “not so big” detailing, but it’s also designed around the sun. Known as a passive solar design, this home’s aim is to maintain interior thermal comfort throughout the sun’s daily and annual cycles while reducing the requirement for active heating and

The following are images of the 2 new lake homes at Water’s Edge on Lake Martin. Recently, we were asked to “re-design” these homes on existing foundations for a bank when a local home builder went bust. The original plans called for a house too large and too expensive for the current market conditions. Jones Pierce created new, smaller “not so big house” plans to fit on these existing foundations that would meet the market and still make “the numbers work” to help recoup the

No job is too small. Jones Pierce partnered with Core Landscape Architects on this Roswell home to create a beautiful heavy timber porch and a backyard haven that includes a pool, spa, and several patio & several other intimate outdoor spaces. Existing back yard of this Roswell Home. 2 heavy timber porches replace an existing screened porch. The larger of the heavy timber porches, with a large masonry fireplace being built. Siteplan Rendering & Design by Cor

Here are some interior progress photos of Creek House in Virginia Highlands. This home will be LEED-For-Homes certified. It is being built by Abraham Properties and is expected to be completed in January. The family room of creek house will contain stained coffers, a masonry fireplace, and a TV cabinet. The masonry and trim-work is completed. The dining room trim work is complete in Creek House. Trim work is complete in the formal living room and kitchen. Cabinets are up in t

The Wimberly Residence: A Jones Pierce Not-So-Extreme Makeover The Wimberly Residence Sometimes what owners conceive as a potentially large-scale renovation can be made more manageable with a priority check. Tom and Sarah walked us through long-term plans for their recently-purchased home off West Wesley near Nancy Creek. However, the focus for the first pass was the front façade and the long front yard. Due to the of the placement of the house on a deep, wooded lot the long

The Site – Highlands, NC Within a golf community, the site was heavily forested and included an EPA-governed stream, which pushed the house close to the street. There was little room to transition from road, to driveway, to woodland-facing privacy. Naturally, the house would stretch horizontally along the stream. This established the home’s most prominent feature: the long rear porch, which is accessible from all the public spaces in the house. The Style Wanting inspiration

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

Lanier Enclave Lanier Enclave is a new three-home development in Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta. All three homes will be prairie style and designed by Jones Pierce. “Creek House” is the first of these homes to be built. It is located at the rear of the property, along the creek. The unique shape of the home is due to the tight restrictions of the lot, including a 75 foot stream buffer. This home is LEED-for-Homes certified! Lanier Enclave Site Plan Creek House Ba

This Decatur Residence was recently renovated into a style we call the “American Bungalow.” Standing Out, While Fitting In Establishing a recognizable style, whether designing a new home or undertaking a renovation, is, for an architect, a principal concern. It is through this method that rules are established, guiding all of the decisions made throughout the design process. The style also leads to a strong “message” about what the owner feels for the house, and what the hou

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