Residential Complete 2020

Queens town house — modern facade and full renovation

Private owner · Queens, NY

Design-build — Dom Rzaca's crew, before the company's move to Albany

The finished facade: stucco, wood-look panels and laser-cut metal screens

Scope

A two-story town house rebuilt as a modern home: a new stucco (EIFS) facade with wood-look panels and laser-cut decorative metal screens, new windows and entry, and a fully renovated interior — an open kitchen and living level with exposed timber beams, a marble island with wine fridge, wide-plank oak floors and a floating stair with patterned metal guards.

Challenge: A tight urban lot where the whole facade had to be built from the sidewalk, and a house that had to read as new construction.
Solution: The facade was built as a layered system — an insulated stucco field, wood-look panel bands and laser-cut metal screens — with the interior opened up around exposed timber beams and a floating stair.
Result: Completed 2020.

Photos

4 photographs — before, during and after. Click any photo to enlarge.

Open kitchen and living level with exposed timber beams

Beamed ceiling and the patterned stair guards

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