kitchens - not award winning

A family of three lived in a a colonial home in Burke for over 20 years, without any major changes done to the house, and now comes a time that he is retiring and wants to spend more time at home enjoying backyard while wife gardening and entertaining indoor and outdoor. Wall between family room […]

PROBLEM: Family-oriented homeowners, with nearby children and grandchildren, are seeking spatial reconfiguration to 1980’s center hall colonial production house that will better serve an extended family that frequents the house regularly. Existing rear-of-the-house suite—which includes a 12’ x 20’ builder-grade kitchen, family room peninsula and a compartmentalized dining room accessible from the kitchen through a

To create the substantially larger gourmet kitchen, the contractor removed a bearing wall between the existing kitchen and dining room introducing an open plan with thoughtfully articulated use zones. The centerpiece of the new plan is a 6′ x6′ L-shaped cherry wood counter with a white marble surface. Wood flooring extended throughout the first level

PROBLEM: Existing kitchen/ breakfast room to this 1980’s center hall Colonial is both dated and inadequate for homeowner needs. Among other issues, a small butler’s pantry between the kitchen and the dining room is too small to support service requirements of the couple’s frequent parties. Also, the socially-active wife wants a floor plan that will

PROJECT SCOPE: Owners of a circa 1990’s Colonial home were seeking to convert existing space-constricted builder-grade kitchen into a generously-apportioned Tuscan-style country kitchen with lots of natural light, high-end appointments and a warmly textured interior design concept. Among other features owner’s sought a mid room island that would house critical appliances, complete work triangles and

Project Scope: Owners of a 3,500 sq ft circa 1980’s Colonial were seeking sweeping “strategic” upgrades to entire house within a budget. Project needed to include: a) an enlarged master bathroom with many high-end features; b) near-doubling of available kitchen footprint (while staying within envelop of existing home); c) more refined interior design scheme throughout

PROBLEM: Consisting of a front parlor, a hall, a dining room and 8’ x 12’ galley kitchen, the entire first floor of a circa 1970s is cramped and dated to a young couple with a child. The small rooms and limited storage make a restricted space seem even smaller. Owners are in search of an

PROJECT SCOPE Contemporary 1990’s single family home in Centreville, occupied by middle aged couple, seeking more contemporary style kitchen with much more colorful products. Existing kitchen is very limited; since she owns her own catering company and would like to entertain more, able to have much larger appliances, better flow in her kitchen with much

Gali Kitchen Breakfast are: We bumped the front of the house by 5 ft. removed the front porch. Took down front & between Kitchen, Dining room, and kitchen living room baring wall. Added hardware to match, installed microlam. Moved sink under new windows in addition, moved entire kitchen into new section of breakfast room, matched

1990’s Colonial Sizeable kitchen with adjacent sunroom; largely dysfunctional layout with cumbersome midroom closets yet lack of necessary storage. The sink was situated against a blank wall and all appliances were too close to each other. SOLUTIONS: Remove a bearing wall to create kitchen great room; delete closets Open plan allows for more natural light