TREY COLE :: DESIGNER :: Greenville, SC - E. Earle Street Bungalow

Location: Dowtown Greenville, SC :: Designed by: Trey Cole :: Built by: O'Leary Cole, Inc. :: Project manager: Levi Stone

As with all our projects, this home has its own personality and needs. Our main goal with this home was to update it with modern conveniences while respecting the historical nature of a 1920's bungalow. To accomplish this, we saved as much of the original house as possible and minimized the addition to maintain an appropriate scale for the neighborhood. This bungalow ercombines energy efficiency with period appropriate craftsmanship.

AFTER - In addition to the obvious changes to the front of the house, these sidelights were covered with plywood and the front door had been broken into to but both were rebuilt, restored and reused.

	BEFORE - Choosing colors- All of our options were from a historic palette and had to be approved by the Design and Preservation Commission prior to use.
	BEFORE - The house had been abandoned and used for storage for 10 to 15 years.

Rear View of House on E. Earle Street

AFTER - View from rear of house.

	BEFORE - We reused existing materials to help maintain the historic character of the house. The siding was reused from other parts of the house and the foundation brick came from an old fireplace in the house that was removed. - Now that's Green!
	BEFORE - Seen here are several old additions that were inappropriate for the new floor plan and not structurally sound, so they had to be removed.

AFTER - View looking into kitchen.

	BEFORE - Looking thru house from front door. All this stuff was free with purchase of the house!
	BEFORE - What have we gotten ourselves into!

Remodeled Bathroom

AFTER - Finished Master Bath.

Remodeled Kitchen

AFTER - Finished kitchen.

	Lined up all along the porch railing is all the door hardware for the house that had to be hand cleaned and polished. Most of it was reused from this house, some it came from a salvage yard.

Huge amounts of demo and rebuilding took place on the roof. You can't imagine how much stuff is on an old roof! Water was literally pouring into the house thru the holes in the roof for years.

Insulation

The entire house was insulated to be as energy efficient as possible. This photo shows insulation being blown into the walls of the living room. To add to the energy efficiency, a gas in-line water heater was used and Low-E glass windows replaced single panes.