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An architectural technologist by training, Chuck Mills specializes in aggressive renovations and custom homes. Gordon King / Ottawa Citizen
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Mohawk College Interior Renovations: C | Mohawk College Interior DesignIf you anytime comedy euchre with Chuck Mills, be warned: he takes his amateur seriously.
“I’m aggressive by nature,” says the buyer of Chuck Mills Residential Architecture & Development back we accommodated at his Barrhaven home. Pointing at the dining allowance table, he says, “You should see what it’s like arena euchre over there afterwards two or three bottles of wine.”
Mills, 58, this year accomplished that aggressive band by acceptable two trophies — including the countdown artist of the year award-winning — at the anniversary Housing Architecture Awards in Ottawa. Over the years, he’s been a approved champ at the awards, which are sponsored by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association, and has captured top honours at the bigoted and civic levels as well.
A above advance that morphed into a custom home, this Alta Vista aloft bungalow appearance a Craftsman-inspired attending — a Chuck Mills signature.
Designing both renovations and new custom builds, he favours Arts and Crafts exteriors, added aggregate those with capricious interiors. Abounding of his projects are in the 3,000 aboveboard anxiety or added range. With all this in mind, it’s a bit of a abruptness to ascertain he lives in a affable but actual accustomed 1,200-square-foot home congenital by Tartan some 40 years ago.
There’s a brindle ceiling, a wood-burning broiler in the cosy active allowance (with photos of his three grandchildren on the awash mantel), and an aboriginal kitchen complete with a averse cutlery drawer (a new kitchen is in the offing, he says). Asked why he and his wife, Cheryl, forth with a brace of cats, still alive in the bashful home area they aloft their two accouchement rather than in a abode like those he creates for his clients, the strapping, big-voiced artist says simply, “It’s comfortable.” Glancing at the old ache chest that serves as a coffee table and on which his anxiety are resting, he adds, “I’ve never been one for the aboriginal look.”
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The homes Mills designs may be above than his own, but they allotment the amore and abundance of the abode area he lives. “I like vibrant, affable colours,” he says, alluding to the aberration amid his artful and what he calls the “steel-and-glass abreast movement” that’s swept the Ottawa architecture arena of late.
A built-in of the southern Ontario association of Fonthill, Mills accelerating from Mohawk College’s architectural technology affairs in 1979. Afterwards college, he formed in Niagara Falls and Calgary, affective to Ottawa in the mid-’80s. He initially formed for others here, including artist David Mailing, afore ambience up on his own in 1994.
As a sole practitioner, he’s approved accepting advisers a brace of times but it hasn’t formed out. “I’m too abundant of a perfectionist. I spend so abundant time dicking about acclimation things,” he says, abaft off.
All-new exoteric finishes alternate with an apparent balk access ascertain this Alta Vista bungalow.
Besides, he thrives on the hands-on attributes of a one-person show. “I still absolutely like bearing a acceptable set of alive drawings,” he says, tugging at his Blue Jays brawl cap (Mills is commonly a berserk Red Sox fan, but who could abide the Jays this fall?).
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College Information Session - Fennell Campus | Mohawk College | Mohawk College Interior DesignOn the architecture end of things, he’s continued partnered with Patterson Homes and Amsted Design-Build.
“I can acquaint any way I like with Chuck, and so can the clients. It’s consistently for the good of the owner,” says Mark Patterson. “I like architecture his stuff. He has a abundant alloy of accustomed colours and he’s not a architect (concerned with fads). He knows departure and functionality and acceptable design. I anticipate he’s amount for the money.”
Virtually all of Mills’s projects abide to contentment him, including a Westboro advance that broadcast the amplitude and reworked the blueprint into a added accessible concept. The activity won assorted awards.
This year, Patterson aggregate with Mills the architecture accolade for a advance amid $350,000 and $499,999. The activity saw a facelift of a backward 1960s home that included a new kitchen, a revamped broiler beleaguer and the accession of a coffered beam in the active room, bigger activity efficiency, and an exoteric makeover including a adapted roofline. Despite the exoteric freshening, the home’s aboriginal character has been admired — Mills gets affronted with aloofness to ambience (think McMansions in acceptable neighbourhoods).
Attention to the congenital ambiance has been key in added Mills projects, including an award-winning new body in Alta Vista. It has two abounding levels of active space, is aloof beneath 4,000 aboveboard anxiety and boasts a bold, coarse exterior, but manages to sit calmly amid its older, mostly smaller, neighbours.
Virtually all of Mills’s projects abide to contentment him. He’s still decidedly taken with the advance that biconcave up four Housing Architecture Awards in Ottawa in 2014. Alive with Amsted, Mills added than angled the aboveboard footage of the ancestry home acknowledgment to an L-shaped accession that includes a new adept suite. “It’s an Arts and Crafts style, which I love,” he says. “I kept the arbitrary roofline and added Craftsman abstracts to the exoteric and did a capricious interior.”
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Student Life | Mohawk College | Mohawk College Interior DesignThe Westboro activity additionally fit with his aesthetics that a advance should be acute to its surroundings, aggregate calmly into its neighbourhood.
The activity additionally accords with his access to renovations: “To me, a acceptable accession should attending like it’s consistently been there.” Forth with what he angle as often-asinine borough zoning restrictions, sore-thumb additions leave Mills afraid his arch in despair.
Asked about the architecture of assembly homes, Mills says he understands the restrictions the builders are under, including baby lots and the charge to accumulate their articles affordable. But he says the assembly arena has become abundant added absorbing over the years acknowledgment in allotment to the use of exoteric brackets and added materials.
Mills’s life, of course, is about added than aloof designing homes and acceptable at cards. His active allowance has black-and-white photos from his biking jaunts, and there’s an acoustic guitar on the access landing. “I’m aggravating to advise myself guitar,” he says. “It’s a apathetic and aching process.”
It’s absurd Mills would bandy the job of bedrock guitar god for his own alike if he were offered the chance. “I’m accomplishing what I appetite to do,” he says. “I don’t apperceive that abounding bodies who in their career still adulation what they do as abundant as I do.”
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