Alderfield Homes
Burlington · Oakville · Milton · Flamborough · West GTA
A converted barn in board-and-batten timber, glazed across the centre where the doors were, wheat either side of a gravel drive.
Hamilton · 3,200 sq ft · 2022 · Renovation

The Flamborough House

The brief

A working farm with a century barn the owners wanted to live in, keeping the structure visible.

The problem

It had no foundation. A hundred years of a timber frame sitting on fieldstone and dirt, on agricultural land, which is its own zoning conversation before anything structural.

What we did

Lifted the frame, poured underneath it, and set it back down. Every original timber that could be kept was kept and the replacements are visibly new, because pretending would have been worse. The zoning took four months and a change of use. It is a house now and it still reads as a barn from the road.

Specifications
3,200 sq ft · 3 bed
Original timber frame retained
New full basement
Change of use from agricultural
Completed August 2022
Twenty months
Owner

"They were honest about which beams were coming out. I'd been braced for a fight about that."

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