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Mediterranean Revival Design-Build
in Boca Raton

From Waterfront Property to Mediterranean Revival Estate

Every custom home project has a defining moment. This one began with a vision and evolved into a true design-build transformation in Boca Raton.

My first meeting with John and Veronica took place at their expansive beachfront condominium overlooking Fort Lauderdale beach. They had thoughtfully combined two units into one large vacation residence and were no strangers to renovation. During our conversation, John shared that he had deep ties to both Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton.

He then revealed the real opportunity: he had purchased an original waterfront home on Boca Raton’s Intracoastal Waterway with plans to demolish and rebuild from the ground up. The goal was to create a custom vacation home rooted in Old World Mediterranean Revival architecture with an Italian Villa aesthetic.

We agreed his project would required a fully integrated design-build approach.

Architectural Reconfiguration | Boca Raton Design-Build

Upon engagement, we immediately began working in collaboration with the project architect to reconfigure the architectural floor plan. The existing layout lacked proper living room, so the first priority within the design-build process was to introduce a correctly proportioned living room aligned with the home’s Mediterranean Revival style.

Final Architectural Floor Plan as per our Design - Build

As part of our Boca Raton design-build process, the bedroom wing was extended to the allowable setback, recalibrating the home’s architectural footprint that increased our interior square footage.

The revised floor plan introduced:

• A central formal living room overlooking the Intracoastal

• Expanded entry elevation with flanking windows for symmetry

• An architecturally integrated office and wine room

• Enlarged terrace with outdoor kitchen and cabana bath

• Reconfigured family and dining spaces with wraparound glass doors

• Beamed cathedral ceiling for Mediterranean volume

• Grand fireplace with flanking doors for symmetry

• Redesigned kitchen with dedicated bar area

Mediterranean Revival Architecture in Boca Raton

The revised floor plan draws from historic Mediterranean Revival estates throughout Boca Raton, emphasizing:

• Classical symmetry

• Indoor–outdoor integration

• Mediterranean elements including stone and natural wood

• Redesigned Mediterranean staircase

• Cathedral ceiling detail with wood beams

Rather than applying decorative elements, this project integrates Mediterranean architecture at the planning level.

I give my clients credit for including their interior designer while the architectural drawings are still being revised -

I am very detail oriented and a bit of a control freak meaning that with my architectural background (Note: I am not an architect only a designer) I can see in 3 dimension and I look for where we can use architectural elements and make feature walls. I also love tending to my clients needs and and reviewing all of the possibilities while creating their vision for their home.

At this time I can also design the custom cabinetry for the kitchen, bar, office / library, and baths - place architectural elements such as columns and arches, even the ceiling beams in the family room I have equally spaced to line up with the stone columns and french doors including electrical for the LED lights built into the beams to light up the wood ceiling. Speaking of ceilings, I love to work on the electrical and reflected ceiling plans - This allows me not only to spec out the location of chandeliers and sconces but also accent lighting, ceiling spot lights to showcase artwork, exterior lights including patio, pool, accent walls, landscaping, dock lights and even holiday lights if needed.

Thus far we have the basic lay-out and architectural floor plan with the front elevation - This is where I begin to start with the interior design of the Family / Great room and I design the custom kitchen cabinetry with an Old World, Traditional, Mediterranean style and influences, including the appliance locations, farm sink at the island, large stone hearth over the range including a pot faucet.

In the Great / Family Room I designed a wall of cabinetry including a bar with a large stain glass window - What Old World Pub doesn’t have a stain glass window ?

Thus far we have the basic lay-out and architectural floor plan with the front elevation - This is where I begin to start with the interior design of the Family / Great room and I design the custom kitchen cabinetry some styles borrowed form the Old World - Traditional and Mediterranean including influences from an old 19th century Italian villa kitchen with stone range hood over the 66” Viking “Tuscany” range.

One of my favorite features in the Old World - Traditional kitchen that truly does give the interior design that Italian Villa style is the Francois “Toscany” stone range hood and fireplace mantle.

This client coming from Tuscany, Italy had visions of his Fort Lauderdale vacation home, we were combining both old world charm mixed with some Italian / Mediterranean elements - My client told me that he wanted the exterior walls to be covered in cut natural stone (Please see the front elevation)

I love to mix textures through out the home and bringing the outside in as well as extending the living space to the exterior.

I believe I achieved this buy incorporating the same stone on the grand fireplace with featuring a carved stone mantle that matches the range hood in the kitchen. I took this a step further by flanking all of the doorways and the entrance to the great room with matching stone columns with a carved shell corbel. These columns also support a decorative soffit with a two part crown molding that houses spotlights down on the beautiful draperies and LED strip lights that will aluminate the tongue and grove wood ceiling (Please see Kitchen elevation)

With my clients extensive travels they find it necessary to use a dog create and it gives their dog stability and comfort - They sent me the picture to the left to inspire me to incorporate a built in create. Of course I took it a step further and not only added the Mediterranean wrought iron door but also added a matching display for china or wine storage siting on a black granite shelf.

Through out the process of designing my clients custom vacation home, they would refer to it as the “Dog House” upon my asking they explained that their current condo that they had remodeled by combining two condos into one large condo over looking Fort Lauderdale beach did not welcome their dog - Hence they bought an old original home on the Fort Lauderdale intracoastal waterway to knock down and build their “Dog House” - I Love It !

In order to submit the architectural plans to the city, I proceeded to design the swimming pool / hot tub and dock area. To allow for more usable patio space I relocated the pool / hot tub to be parallel to the back of the home with steps down to the dock level that has a seating area and water fall from the infinity edge pool.

I continued with the same design elements that was incorporated with the interior design being a tile decorative privacy wall with a shell fountain flanked by matching stone columns with hanging lanterns - as you can see through out the patio layout I have incorporated tile walls and stone columns toped with planters.