I've worked as a residential architect for nearly 15 years
now, and I have yet to meet a homeowner who doesn't
love bay windows. Bays are intimate, cozy, human-scaled
architectural moments that can bring an otherwise mundane
addition to life. But there are times when the traditional bay
doesn’t work.
An addition I recently worked on here in Minneapolis is a
good example. The project was as straightforward as they
come: a family room–mudroom–master suite addition to the
back of a 1948 two-story Colonial revival. We wanted the
addition to blend in with the existing house, so the addition's
overall form — the roof slope, eaves line, siding, and
window size and