Medlock Park Residence

Addition + Renovation‍ ‍|‍ ‍In Progress‍ ‍| 2025

The owners of a single-level cottage in Medlock Park loved their property: a generous lot with gardens, a creek, and a rolling backyard where their daughter plays. The program called for transforming the cottage into a Tudor-inspired split level with a rental unit on the lower level, while preserving particular views of the property from key points in the house.

Potts Lang Architects organized the plan around those views. A den with a full glass wall gives the piano a view of the creek and opens onto a covered porch overlooking it. A generous eat-in kitchen, supported by a new pantry, mudroom, and laundry room, connects to a partially covered deck for entertaining, overlooking the backyard. Vaulted ceilings run throughout, a new dormer brings daylight into the north side of the main level, and gathering areas with varying degrees of privacy are distributed across the house.

Below, the design uses the slope of the site to give the rental unit its own entrance.

The result is a four-bedroom, four-bath main residence with room for music, family, and entertaining, and a two-bedroom, one-bath rental unit that supports it.

GALLERY

Design rendering of the Medlock Park Residence at dusk, with lit windows beneath the steep front gable.

Design rendering of the side of the house: cream board-and-batten siding over a stone base.

Design rendering of the side and rear, where the slope reveals the stone-clad lower level and the rental unit's separate entrance.

Design rendering of the rear of the house across the rolling backyard lawn, with the partially covered deck at its center.

Design rendering of the rear of the house at dusk, with the covered deck lit beneath its gable.

Design rendering of the partially covered deck off the kitchen, with an outdoor dining table for entertaining.

Design rendering of the deck at dusk, set for dinner beneath the lit gable roof.