Westchester Home Design Contest
Featured in Westchester Home's fourth annual home design contest.
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Gold and Best in Show more than $250,000 Daniel Contelmo Architects, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., dtcarchitects.com Project name: Carriage House Location: Dutchess County, N.Y. Square footage: 5,500 Cost: $1.4 million
This detached structure sits on 30 acres and houses the homeowner’s 15-car collection while doubling as a gathering space. The building was required to be located behind the existing home and feel as though it could’ve been there for 100 years. The carriage-house structure fit on a site near a rock knoll, cliff and wet area. An existing stone wall was incorporated into new walls that were used to delineate yard and courts, and define uses around the carriage house. The timber frame structure has columns wide enough apart that two cars can be parked between them with their doors open. There is a center display aisle for display and driving cars in and out and an overhead catwalk for viewing the cars from above. A main gable roof simplifies and defines the structure while a reverse gable facing the house creates character and interest while dividing the long roof behind it. Radiant heat in the brick floor prevents moisture from getting to the cars and cars can be backed out of sliding mahogany doors to run on a hollow paver surface. A brick entrance courtyard incorporated into the existing stone walls and trees is used for gatherings and display of one of the vehicles.
November 2014 For ResidentialPros Article
6 local sites win AIA design awards
AIA Westchester Chapter Citation Award
Daniel Contelmo Architects of Poughkeepsie won a Citation Award in the Interiors Category for its total transformation of a rather bland 1980s Colonial. New interior and exterior detailing included coffered ceilings and wood wainscoting, which the jury liked. They also appreciated the new foyer and curving stairs.
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2014 AIA New York State Design Award Winner for Carriage House
Featured in Outdoor Home Magazine
Architect uses online community to promote firm
Read Poughkeepsie Journal Article Daniel Contelmo hadn’t thought about joining an online community to boost his company’s business. Then a client gave the registered architect a different perspective.
“Every time she wanted to describe something she wanted on her house, she would thumb through her iPad and show me photos,” said Contelmo, principal architect of Daniel Contelmo Architects in Poughkeepsie. “I asked what she was looking at and she said it was Houzz,” a leading online platform for home remodeling and design.
He joined the online community, creating a company profile with photos of his projects and redesigned his company’s website, making it easier for existing and prospective clients to see his work and communicate with him.
Within a few months, emails and phone calls from potential clients across the country picked up, with some more suitable than others. He also heard from industry vendors.
“I was speaking with designers and potential clients and, frankly, I was getting a lot of positive feedback from the photos everyone was seeing and it just encouraged me to improve my site and the photos,” Contelmo said.
In fact, in the year-and-a-half since Contelmo joined Houzz for free, his firm has won its “best of” award in 2013 and 2014 per member ratings and is one of the highest ranked architects on the site. Moreover, one of the firm’s bathrooms is a top 10 design, appearing in more than 100,000 member ideabooks.
Poughkeepsie Journal Article
Best of Houzz 2014 Award
Daniel Contelmo Architects won in both the Design and Customer Satisfaction categories. Our portfolio includes some of the most popular images on Houzz in 2013 and was ranked highly in customer satisfaction among Houzz’s 16 million monthly users. Daniel Contelmo Architects was recently voted by Houzz.com as a winner of the Best of Houzz 2014 awards!
Better Homes and Gardens April 2013
Daniel Contelmo Architects created a transformation of a colonial home in Westchester County, New York. The exterior of this renovation is featured in Better Homes and Gardens. The entire interior of the home was also renovated.
Poughkeepsie Journal Article
What's new in the mid-Hudson Valley business scene Architectural firm wins top award
Architectural firm wins award — Daniel Contelmo Architects, Poughkeepsie, was awarded Best of Houzz 2014 by Houzz.com, an online platform for residential design and construction. The firm was chosen as one of the top design professionals by the more than 16 million monthly users that comprise the Houzz community.
The award was given in two categories: customer satisfaction and design, based on member ratings. The local firm won in both categories.
Daniel Contelmo has been designing custom residential homes, additions and renovations for more than 25 years. He has contributed to several publications, trade magazines, books and HGTV and will appear in the spring issue of Outdoor Home magazine.
