The Lookout House
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Location:
Arvada, Colorado
Square Footage:
4,634 SF Remodeled
6,150 SF Added
Construction Date:
Started Summer 2023
Completed: Fall 2025
The Lookout House began with an existing farmhouse tucked down a cottonwood-lined road in semi-rural Arvada.
The owners loved the setting and character of the property, but the existing house no longer provided the space they wanted for the way they lived, worked, and spent their time at home.
Rather than leave that character behind, F9 Productions designed a major remodel and addition that transformed the property into the owners’ forever home while maintaining the farmhouse feel that belonged there in the first place.
The result combines 4,634 square feet of remodeled space with 6,150 square feet of new construction, creating a home built around family, work, hobbies, and one very distinctive room in the sky.
The Idea
The clients wanted more than simply a bigger house.
They wanted a home designed around the things that mattered to them.
That meant a large kitchen and open living space for everyday life and gathering. It meant a dedicated home office and sewing room. It meant a substantial workshop and garage where projects could happen without competing with the rest of the house. And it meant creating an elevated space where they could simply get away and enjoy the surrounding landscape.
Those individual requests became the organizing idea behind the project.
Instead of treating the addition as a collection of extra rooms, the house grew into a series of spaces tailored specifically to the people living there.
Building a Forever Home
The main floor became the heart of the expanded house.
A large kitchen connects directly to the living and dining spaces, creating an open central gathering area. Around it are more specialized rooms, including a study and home office, sewing room, reading and game room, mudroom, laundry, and spaces for family and guests.
The primary suite occupies its own portion of the house with a large bedroom, bathroom, and closet. Heated tile, generous storage, and direct connections between the everyday spaces help bring intentional functionality to every new square foot.
Room to Work
One of the biggest priorities was creating serious workspace at home.
The expanded property includes a large shop along with both existing and new garage space, giving the owners room for vehicles, equipment, storage, and projects. The shop itself was designed as a true working space, complete with large overhead doors, a concrete slab, utility areas, and dedicated heating.
Inside the house, that same idea continues, but on a smaller scale.
A dedicated office creates a place for professional work, while the sewing room gives another creative pursuit a permanent home of its own.
The Turret
Then there is the turret.
Rising above the house and shop is a circular second-story retreat reached by a winding stair.
The 491-square-foot upper level is surrounded by windows, creating a hangout space with views across the surrounding landscape and toward the mountains to the west.
It is part lookout, part retreat, and part architectural landmark.
From outside, the turret gives the addition a recognizable focal point. From inside, it gives the owners something completely different from every other room in the house: a place above the activity below where the view becomes the main event.
Keeping the Farmhouse
Adding more than 6,000 square feet to an existing home creates another challenge.
How do you make that much new construction feel like it belongs?
The exterior uses a mix of familiar farmhouse materials across the old and new portions of the house, including horizontal fiber cement siding, board-and-batten siding, white brick, corrugated metal, charcoal asphalt shingles, and matte-black metal roofing.
Those materials allow different pieces of the house to have their own identity while still reading as part of the same property.
The goal was not to disguise the fact that the house had grown. It was to make the growth feel natural.
The Result
The Lookout House turned an existing Arvada farmhouse into a home designed specifically around its owners.
There is room to cook and gather. Room to work. Room to sew. Room for projects. Room for family. And, at the top of the turret, room to sit above it all and gaze at the mountains.
The project dramatically expanded what the original house could do without abandoning the farmhouse character that made the property special in the first place.
For F9 Productions, the project became an exercise in something deceptively difficult: adding a lot while making sure the original idea of home did not get lost along the way.
