Rhodes Villa — Old World Renaissance Residence
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Private
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Custom Home Construction
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Delray Beach, FL 33483
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18 months
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Old World Renaissance
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Residential
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Single Home
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7,000 sq. ft.
Rhodes Villa is a 7,000-square-foot Old World Renaissance custom residence built by Steven Sellers Contracting in Delray Beach, Florida, under Florida CGC License CGC057260.
Project Description
Rhodes Villa is an Old World Renaissance-style luxury residence built by Steven Sellers Contracting in Delray Beach, Florida. The residence demonstrates the firm's capacity to execute authentic Mediterranean and Renaissance architectural traditions — barrel-tile roofline, hand-applied stucco facade, custom mahogany millwork, classical stone detailing, arched fenestration, and integrated pool-and-loggia composition — at the construction standard required by Palm Beach County's most established luxury market.
Authentic Old World Architecture: Classical Mediterranean and Renaissance proportions, barrel-tile roof, hand-applied stucco facade in traditional tones, arched window and door openings, decorative cast-stone surrounds, and ornamental wrought-iron detailing throughout the exterior elevation.
Integrated Pool and Outdoor Living: Custom pool engineered as a structural element of the rear elevation, with travertine deck coping, coordinated landscape composition featuring mature palms and traditional Mediterranean plantings, and a rear-elevation loggia opening directly to the pool composition.
Coastal-Climate Engineering: Despite traditional architectural styling, the residence is engineered to current South Florida coastal building standards including hurricane-grade structural detailing, impact-rated openings, and waterproofing assemblies designed for long-term performance in the marine environment.
Single-Principal Construction Management: The project was directed personally by Steven Sellers from site preparation through final certificate of occupancy, with all subcontractor relationships running directly through Steven Sellers Contracting and coordinated as a single architectural vision.
Challenges and Solutions
Challenge: Authentic Old World Detailing in a Modern Coastal Code Environment
Executing classical Renaissance and Mediterranean architectural detail — arched openings, decorative cast-stone surrounds, barrel-tile roof, traditional stucco profiles — while meeting current Florida Building Code requirements for hurricane-grade structural performance and impact-rated openings.
Solution: Coordinated the architectural detail package with the structural engineer of record at the design stage, ensuring that impact-rated openings were sized and proportioned to preserve the home's classical fenestration rhythm without compromising the wind-load and water-intrusion requirements of South Florida coastal construction.
Challenge: Integration of Pool, Loggia, and Rear Elevation as a Single Composition
Rhodes Villa's rear elevation, loggia, and pool composition needed to read as a single architectural statement rather than three separately executed trades.
Solution: The pool was engineered as a structural element of the residence during the same design phase as the loggia and rear elevation, with deck coping, finished-floor elevations, and waterproofing membranes coordinated across the home's structural envelope and the pool's hydraulic system as one integrated assembly.
Challenge: Material Sourcing for Authentic Renaissance Detail
Custom mahogany doors, cast-stone surrounds, barrel-tile roof, and traditional stucco materials carry lead times measured in months and require coordination across multiple specialty suppliers.
Solution: Material lead times were integrated into the construction schedule at the pre-construction phase, with custom millwork and stone fabrication initiated early enough to align with the construction critical path rather than holding finish phases against late material arrivals.
Project Images
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Rhodes Villa front elevation featuring classical Mediterranean proportions, arched fenestration, and hand-applied stucco facade.
Custom mahogany interior millwork program executed to the Renaissance design vocabulary and engineered for long-term performance in the South Florida coastal climate.
Rear-elevation loggia opening directly to the pool composition, coordinated with the home's structural envelope as a single architectural statement.
Custom private home theater with tiered seating engineered for acoustic performance and integrated into the residence's lower-level entertainment composition.
ustom arched fenestration and cast-stone surrounds executed to traditional Renaissance proportions, paired with classical wrought-iron detailing.
Integrated rear-elevation pool composition with travertine deck coping and mature palm landscape program, engineered as a structural element of the residence.
Ornamental wrought-iron detailing custom-fabricated to the home's Renaissance design vocabulary, integrated into the exterior elevation as a defining architectural element.
Custom velvet theater curtain and acoustic wall treatment executed to professional cinema standards within the residence's private home theater.
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