Houses

SILVER STREET HOUSE BY EHDO

This is a story of how a visionary client saw potential where others saw obstacles. Pat and Sonia Gaffney – parents of three children, now adults – bought the vacant block next door to their home for a low price twenty years ago. A main sewer line diagonally bisects the site, and Pat laid out a formal garden for entertaining and playing.

As their children grew older and the need for a large garden diminished, Pat began investigating ways to build a new home around the major constraint of the underground

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