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Zimmerman Architects

www.ZimArch.com Zimmerman Architects is a twin sister architect team with a practice built on creativity, experience and extraordinary customer service.

Creating your dream home is a challenging yet rewarding experience - Zimmerman Architects will help you turn your house into your dream house. Twin sisters Faith & Hope Zimmerman are delighted to practice architecture together in Morris County, New Jersey.

08/18/2025

Steady progress is being made on this small kitchen expansion / renovation project, and some of the key features are really starting to take shape.

08/04/2025

While you typically see river rocks used as flooring inside showers, this new (almost finished!) little bathroom has found a few additional ways to highlight them - by using them for the accent trim on the shower walls and the tile base trim around the rest of the bathroom!

07/22/2025

Did you ever have an awkward part of your house that you wished someday you can get around to "fixing" - and at the same time, not even sure it COULD be fixed? This was the case in a recent renovation.

In this home, the front door opened into a really narrow hallway, which also had an open stair to the basement. The railing around the basement stairs was so close to the front door that you couldn’t open the front door all the way! The coat closet in the front entrance was positioned over those basement stairs. So - going downstairs required you to duck!

The easiest and best solution was to move the placement of the front door. Funny enough, moving the front door was something the family had talked about many times over the years and yet never got around to accomplishing.

Containing costs, we kept the existing stairs to the basement (it was cheaper to move the front door). We moved the coat closet and made it bigger, which in turn made the stairs roomier. The entrance to the basement (no longer crowding the front door) now has a beautiful railing, and because it’s off to the side, there’s no need to duck. Moving the front door allowed us to create a roomy front entrance in an area that was previously underutilized.

07/18/2025

Construction of this split-level, second story addition is well underway!

07/14/2025

The road was long, but we've finally finished the renovation / reconstruction of Hope's father-in-law's home after the kitchen fire it suffered 20 months ago! We turned misfortune into opportunity and took it as a chance to open up and totally transform the space.

07/07/2025

In order to facilitate the homeowners' ability to remain on site during the course of construction, the dining room built-ins were installed and finished first. This has allowed them to use that space as a temporary pantry / kitchen while the actual kitchen is out of commission during it's total renovation.

06/25/2025

New siding and trim are up and the front porch will be coming next!

06/20/2025

2000's - The McMansion Era

The early 2000s continued to prioritized size—but not the smartest layouts. These homes often feature too many “bonus” rooms and little design cohesion. Today’s homeowners don’t always agree that “big = better”. Poorly connected spaces, wasted square footage, and awkward transitions can make a large home feel less functional than a smaller, well-designed one.

Our designs reconfigure their space to better match their actual needs and lifestyle for today and for the future. That could mean combining unused rooms into a larger, purposeful suite, creating better connections between areas for a more cohesive look.

06/18/2025

The 1990's - Bring on the oversized drama!

This decade was big on over-the-top home design drama—two-story entryways, sprawling bathrooms, perhaps to give homeowners an exaggerated feeling of “the big luxury home”.

Oversized foyers or great rooms can feel cold and impersonal. People are uncomfortable in big cavernous spaces where they feel lost and the sound echoes and reverberates. So we help them get smaller, more intimate cozy spaces within or adjacent to the larger whole, which they typically prefer.

06/16/2025

Ah the 1980's - this was the decade of bold shapes—cathedral ceilings, triangular windows, and dramatic rooflines were all the rage.

These design choices often result in underused space, energy inefficiency, and a layout that’s tough to furnish or renovate.

We love vaulted ceilings, for the way they can change the feel of the room; they allow more options for bringing in natural light; and they can interconnect spaces on different levels. But sometimes we need to tame the angles.

That may mean simplifying the rooflines, improving insulation and HVAC efficiency, or converting oddly shaped rooms into purposeful spaces. We love to bring harmony and cohesion to homes that feel disjointed or oversized in the wrong places.

06/03/2025

A key element of the transformation of this home's first floor living space is the kitchen addition / expansion. The new skylights and sliders provide both amazing natural light and views to the backyard, as well as direct access and connection via the new deck.

05/27/2025

While not an enormous addition, the additional space created for this full kitchen renovation will greatly improve its functionality, especially when they are entertaining!

Address

40 Bloomfield Ave, Ste 2
Denville, NJ
07834

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