Cecelia Custom Residence

The Cecelia Custom Residence presented S. R. Freeman with a substantial three-story residential framing project incorporating structural steel, exterior siding, and window and door installation over a significant basement footprint.

The home's multiple floor elevations added complexity to the structural framing, while a custom steel staircase required extensive coordination among S. R. Freeman, the architect, engineer, and steel subcontractor. Bringing these systems together called for careful communication and an understanding of how individual structural elements would affect the larger residence.

The project reflects the level of coordination required when custom architecture, changing elevations, and specialized steel components converge within one residential structure.

A three-story custom home introduces structural relationships that must remain coordinated from one level to the next.

At Cecelia, split floor elevations made those relationships particularly important. Framing needed to respond to changing heights throughout the residence while remaining aligned with the structural steel and architectural requirements surrounding it.

The substantial basement added another dimension to the home's vertical scale, creating a structure where careful layout and coordination were essential as each level took shape.

The custom staircase became one of the project's defining coordination challenges.

Rather than treating the steel stair as an isolated component, the team needed to understand how it connected with the surrounding framing, changing floor elevations, and architectural design. S. R. Freeman worked alongside the architect, engineer, and steel subcontractor to develop a solution that could be incorporated into the residence.

The process demonstrates how specialized structural elements often depend on collaboration between multiple disciplines before they can be successfully executed in the field..

With a substantial basement and three stories above, Cecelia required the team to consider how structural conditions connected vertically throughout the residence.

Floor elevations, wall systems, steel components, openings, and the custom staircase all needed to relate correctly to one another. Decisions within one portion of the structure could directly influence the work occurring above, below, or alongside it.

That interconnected construction made careful field execution and communication an important part of bringing the home's structural form together.

S. R. Freeman approaches custom residential structural framing as part of a larger construction process.

Our philosophy is to think like builders, not just framers. At Cecelia, that meant understanding how multiple floor elevations, structural steel, the custom staircase, siding, windows, doors, and surrounding architectural details needed to work together.

By looking beyond individual framing components and coordinating with the broader project team, SRF helped translate a complex residential design into an integrated structure in the field.