Before & Later: Carve up Entry Makeover

Project GOALS:  Turn the kitchen and dining room into i large gathering space with lots of seating, beautiful details, and a seamless flow into the family unit room.  They also wanted to create a first-floor office space.

Project AT A GLANCE:

Location:  Reading, MA

Type of home:  Split Entry home with 2 additions

Year Built:  1978

This house had a classic dissever entry set up: a small eat in kitchen with a wall separating it from the formal dining room.

The erstwhile kitchen had minimal counter space and was closed off from the rest of the first flooring

Afterward: A vaulted ceiling, an interesting back splash, and a large island make the space both beautiful and functional!

I love the seeded drinking glass pendants!

Earlier:  We gutted the kitchen down to the studs and removed the ceiling and then that we could enhance the top, access the utilities, and remove the wall between the kitchen and dining room.

A view from the dining room; The cut out in the floor is where the former wall used to be.

Later: With the wall gone, the two rooms period together perfectly!

The low-cal gray beams add subtle contrast to the ceiling design

After: A view to the dining room and the wall where nosotros added 2 windows for more than natural lite

How awesome are those stools?!  This client has great gustation!

There was also a family unit room off the back with vaulted ceilings which led to a 3 season room that the homeowners wanted to catechumen to a year circular home role.  Sounds simple enough just with the way the business firm was laid out getting central air to that room (which they really wanted) was not going to be easy.  We had to become artistic to effigy out how we were going to become duct piece of work all the way back to that surface area.

Earlier: This stood between the main house and the 3 flavor room they wanted to convert to an office space.  The skylight, high ceilings, and management of the framing were all in our way!

The 1980'south addition that was making life difficult

After lots of questions and tossing things around Paul came upwards with the thought to create faux beams to carry the trunk work to the back room.  This would involve eliminating the skylight (which was pushing xxx years old anyway) and coming up with a ceiling design that didn't await similar it was but in that location to carry utilities.

Nosotros created a aqueduct for the central air and mimicked it on the rest of the ceiling

Later:  The finished ceiling has beams for days!

The ceiling looks like information technology was always meant to exist that style!

Getting the utilities to the dorsum was what fabricated the new office possible.  We decided to continue the maple flooring with a natural finish, add lots of windows for natural calorie-free, and employ nighttime gray trim to ease the transition from the family room.

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