In 1990, our young family moved into a stone house in Charlottesville with lots of character and unique architectural details. Much as we loved the house, we recognized it had serious problems:

a 1920's era layout with a warren of small rooms, a small kitchen, a third floor bedroom with a sagging floor and leaky skylights, and a crumbling electrical system.

Liz came up with a renovation plan that preserved and showcased everything wonderful about the house while bringing it fully up to date.

Liz's design provided more natural light to the downstairs, enlarged the kitchen, and transformed the bedroom by replacing the skylights with dormer windows and installing a new floor. Best of all, Liz modified the downstairs floor plan so that the house now works beautifully for both family life and entertaining.

We're deeply grateful to Liz for coming up with such a brilliant and thoughtful renovation plan.

To meet the needs of our expanding family, we hired Liz to design a second story addition for our 1954 single-story ranch home, transforming it into a full two-story Virginia-style farmhouse.

We had a general idea of what we wanted in terms of space, but we were concerned that such a transformation of our home could be awkward and obvious.

Liz listened carefully to what we wanted and came back to us soon with drawings. Within minutes of looking at the drawings, we were so glad we hired Liz.

When we tell people that our house was once a single-story ranch, they are completely surprised. Her design of the front porch also tied the first story and second story together from a street perspective.

We did not make many changes to her initial drawings, but Liz was very willing to accommodate minor adjustments for preference, and was insightful and helpful in making these changes. She was able to quickly produce complete drawings for our builders so that construction could begin.

It has been my pleasure to work with Architect Liz Sloan on several Greenwich, CT home renovations and additions.

Liz is a very good communicator, creates an interesting and well thought out blueprint and remains with the project from conception to completion. On the projects that we’ve collaborated, Liz’s design skill combined the new and existing structures resulting in seamless, cohesive designs, that pleased the homeowners to no end.

I would welcome working with Liz in the future and whole-heartedly recommend her to homeowners seeking a refreshing, talented architect.

My husband and I recommend Elisabeth Sloan, Architect, with the greatest enthusiasm. Combining the eye of an artist with the structural understanding of an engineer, Liz devised a renovation plan for our 1920’s era house that showcases its original features while making it perfect for modern life.

Before we hired Liz, we were resigned to adding on a new kitchen. Liz saw immediately how we could bring light and flow to our existing kitchen by changing the placement of a door, expanding a window, and breaking through the wall that divided the kitchen from a (then darkish and sparsely used) home office. The result: a gorgeous space that works beautifully in the existing footprint.

During the building phase of our project, Liz proved an invaluable resource, consulting with and helping us monitor the construction team. Liz coordinated an overhaul of the heating and cooling system, worked with our lighting consultant to refurbish two historic chandeliers, and facilitated major improvements to our courtyard and garden.

We love living in our house and remain grateful to Liz for her creative vision and hard work.

Liz Sloan is incredibly creative and at the same time imminently practical, and I think her best attribute is that she loves what she does.

We wanted more space and to turn our 70’s split into a charming country farmhouse, where kids and pets could play freely. Liz was so open to our needs and was able to bring to the table both creativity and extensive knowledge of the bricks and bones.

Because of her extensive knowledge Liz was able to create a plan that was very beautiful and efficient, added great value to the home for eventual resale plus kept us within budget. Throughout the process Liz offered different ideas that would still get us our wish list without breaking the bank, made suggestions that were very practical for a family with young children and even advised us on how to shop around for a different home that could give us the space we needed within our school district in order to avoid the tumult of building. Our architect encouraging us to shop – looking at new homes with us even – was so incredibly honest.

After nearly a year of simultaneously working on drawings with Liz and checking the real estate market, we had a builder selected (with Liz’s help) and final plans were printing when we found our dream house. We really never expected to since we loved the plans we made with Liz so much! It had a couple of things our old house could never have – more land and a history – it had been William Faulkner’s hunting cabin. With Liz’s blessing and advice we made the leap, 4 miles down the road, and while we didn’t get to build her lovely addition we’ve left some of the sketches for the new family who now call our old house home. I know they’d be happy working with Liz to make the plan their own. She is wonderful!