Elizabeth Way
Elizabeth Way
This client was introduced to us through our retail store. She was a first-time homeowner with big ambitions and smart enough to know she needed to call in professionals to help her achieve it. This is a small home, yet I look at the before and after photos of this space and marvel at how removing walls so amplified the feel of space in this home.
We removed the walls between the original living room, family room, dining room and kitchen to create one large open space and lifted the ceiling to the rafters in all spaces. We combined the original footprint of the kitchen with the dining room to create a very large open concept kitchen that flows to the living and new dining spaces. The large island works perfectly for our client who loves to bake and entertain friends and family.
This project definitely had a budget, and we stayed within it by using flat packed cabinets combined with custom doors and design details. I’m not sure the contractor thanked us on this one, but our client totally did. We splurged on tile and lighting fixtures. If you’ve never heard us talk about how important lighting is in a space, let me just tell you it is. It definitely is a place to splurge.
In the family room we removed a very over the top ornate mantle and replaced it with a textural tile wall with an integrated bookcase and floating hearth.
We gutted both bathrooms in the home. In the primary bath we removed an existing tub to create a large open shower space carrying the tile across the room along the vanity wall and adding a custom slat wood feature. In the secondary bath we stole a bit of space from the original laundry cabinet to replace a very small stall shower with a bath shower combination. Replacing the existing red and green stained glass window with a neutral opaque texture, adding textural tile and a beautiful wallpaper make this an inviting bath. A stacked washer/dryer fit perfectly in the space left after the bathroom floor plan change.
We had so much fun working with this young client to give her the bones her house needed and allowing her to furnish the space on her own as her budget allowed.
