The Boyette
Law Firm
3205 Randall Parkway, Suite 101
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403
910-251-9213
www.BoyetteLaw.com
46 january 2022
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DDITIONALLY, the
design team utilized
the maximum allowed
height of 40 feet to
accommodate three
floors. Tower porches were inte-grated
at the elbows of the upper
floor plans, allowing for views from
both the indoors and outdoors, and
long window expanses were used to
provide every bedroom and living
space with oblique views, at mini-mum.
A reverse floorplan with most
of the living areas on the top floor
creates a sense of spaciousness while
simultaneously ensuring compliance
with modern building codes, which
required flood vents on the first floor
to allow water to pass through during
a major storm event.
“Anna Dietsche did an amazing job
creating a great deal of living space
given significant constraints,” says
William Gwathmey. “When people
walk into the house, they have a hard
time believing how big the house feels
related to the actual square footage.”
With a corner lot close to both
streets, the owners had little privacy
options. By integrating an L-shaped
floor plan, the architect and builder
created a sense of privacy for the
back/side yard, where a stand of
bamboo was planted to create a
living privacy screen. Placing a solid
wall with a few small, “punched”
windows along the ground floor on
the Lindy side was used as another
means of providing a secluded
outdoor space. The home becomes
more open on the front, now on
Point Place, welcoming visitors in a
more formal fashion.
Employed as a means of saving valuable
interior space, a spiral staircase connects
the balcony off the family room to the
crow’s nest above. The owners had
experienced a similar crow’s nest in a
hotel during their travels and decided it
was a feature they couldn’t live without.
910-679-8500 • 910-800-1102
www.gwathmeygroup.com
223 Greenville Ave,
Wilmington, NC 28403
The Art of Construction
Geannine M. Boyette practices
in the areas of Domestic and
Criminal Law, dealing with
issues such as Child Custody
and Support, Spousal Support,
Equitable Distribution, Divorce,
DWI, criminal and traffic violations.
Geannine also devotes a fair share
of her practice to defending
individuals against the
Department of Social Services.
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