The Bastian Guide · Casebook · No. 03 · Loveland, CO · Design + Build · 11 Months · 2,600 sq. ft.

§ Casebook No. 03

The Black Ranch,
Loveland.

A dated 1970s ranch reimagined through a full remodel and rear addition, carried from first sketch through move-in by a single accountable team.

Fig. 01 · The Black Ranch, completed.

§ 01 · The Brief

T he clients bought a 1970s ranch in a well-established Loveland neighborhood for the lot and the bones, not the finishes. Their brief was a full interior remodel plus a rear addition that would add a primary suite and a larger great room, without the addition reading as an obviously bolted- on afterthought from the street.

They came to us specifically because they didn't want to manage a separate architect and a separate builder through the inevitable back-and-forth. They wanted one team who would own the design and the number from the first sketch to the final walk-through.

§ 02 · What Was Built

The scope,
room by room.

Rear addition

A 600-square-foot addition housing a new primary suite and expanded great room, matched to the original roofline and re-clad in the same black siding as the rest of the exterior.

Full interior remodel

Kitchen, hall bath, and living areas gutted and reconfigured for a more open plan, respecting the ranch's original low-slung proportions rather than fighting them.

Primary suite & bath

A new primary bedroom, walk-in closet, and full bath with a curbless shower and radiant floor heat, built within the addition's footprint.

Kitchen renovation

Full cabinetry replacement, stone counters, and a reworked layout opening the kitchen to the expanded great room.

Exterior re-clad

Full exterior re-siding in a matte black profile, new windows throughout, and updated exterior lighting to unify the original structure with the new addition.

Mechanical upgrade

A new zoned HVAC system sized for the larger footprint, replacing a single aging furnace that had struggled to condition the original house evenly.

§ 03 · The Signature Move

An addition
that doesn't announce itself.

The hardest part of this project wasn't the primary suite — it was making 600 new square feet disappear into a roofline built fifty years earlier. We matched the pitch, the eave depth, and the siding module exactly, and held the addition's ridge height a few inches below the original roof so it reads as subordinate rather than competing.

From the street, most neighbors assumed the addition had always been there. That's the goal on a project like this — the new work should feel inevitable, not added.

Interior of the expanded great room with clean architectural lines and warm natural light — Fig. 02 · Expanded great room.

§ 04

"You should not be able to stand on the sidewalk and point to where the old house ends and the new house starts. If you can, we didn't do our job on the roofline."

Bastian Build Co.

§ 05 · Details

Materials,
timeline, investment.

Materials

Matte black siding, white oak, stone

Matte black board-and-batten siding, white oak flooring and cabinetry, and honed stone counters throughout the kitchen and primary bath.

Timeline

11 months, design through move-in

Roughly three months of design and permitting, followed by an eight-month construction window covering both the addition and full interior remodel.

Investment

$620,000–$680,000 band

A remodel and addition of this scope, including full design services, typically lands between $620,000 and $680,000 depending on structural conditions and finish level.

§ 06

Your renovation
isn't this one.

Every remodel starts with what's there — the bones, the systems, the constraints — before we talk about what's next. Yours starts with a walk-through.

Primary