In 2004, BEXT purchased a former limousine garage just north of Boston at 8 Parker Street in Everett. Already zoned residential, it was an empty concrete shell with 2,251 square feet of deeded space to work with. Steel columns and beams in the original building design helped to create a wide expansive 79'x31' space with 10 foot high ceilings. The unit, situated like a walk-out basement, is comprised of the entire ground floor of a two-story brick building on a residential street. It had been created as a condominium in the 1980s when an old building - thought by some to have once been a fire station - was converted into residential units.
Architecture
This was the first project for which BEXT created it's own full set of architectural drawings, using the rule that if the space is less than 25,000 cubic feet a professional architect doesn't need to be involved (this space was just under the mark).
Originally the drawings were for a 1 bedroom apartment, adding a sprinkler system and alarm system allowed the space to be redesigned to a 4 bed 2 bath space.
Design
Although the number of windows were minimal, painting the ceiling and walls white, and installing a white concrete overlay floor brightened up the space.
In the Coca-Cola loft bathroom, the "wow factor" was a soft two person bathtub. Here, the "wow factor" is a two-person Japanese soaking tub.
The live-edge dining table and living room benches were hand-made by BEXT using wood from a mill in Central Massachusetts.
Since the bedrooms did not have any windows to the outside, BEXT created windows to the inside using a single pane of frosted glass as wide as a stud bay.
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