Fort Lauderdale Waterfront Residence.
A canal-front Fort Lauderdale home rebuilt around its dock — every principal room reoriented so daily life runs parallel to the water, not past it.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida TYPE
Private Residence SIZE
3,600 SQ FT YEAR
2024 SCOPE
Full Renovation BUDGET
$480,000
A canal-front property where the house and the water barely spoke to each other — principal rooms faced the street, with the dock treated as a backyard afterthought.
Reorient the plan to run parallel with the canal, with a rebuilt dock and boat lift integrated as a genuine second point of arrival.
The interior layout was rebuilt room by room to face the water, with new glazing and a rebuilt dock connecting daily life directly to the canal.
The dock as the front door.
Arrival by water is as considered as arrival by street — a rebuilt dock and boat lift integrated into the architecture, not added after the fact.
A plan that runs with the canal.
Every principal room was reoriented to run parallel with the water, replacing a layout that had treated the canal as a backdrop rather than an axis.
Room by room, walk through the transformation.
“The water was always there. The house just finally faced it.”Homeowner, Fort Lauderdale Waterfront Residence
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