UPDATE 1: Design
Behind The Design
Our clients, a young family, love their neighborhood but wanted to update their home and expand their living space.
Issues:
- Tight closed-off kitchen separated from the dining area
- No mudroom or place to store shoes
- The house only has 2 bedrooms & 1 bathroom leaving no office or guest room space
The new addition will solve these issues by:
- Creating a new larger, open-concept kitchen and dining area
- Adding a mudroom
- Adding a powder bathroom to the main floor
- Adding a third bedroom and another bath upstairs, creating a new primary suite
The homeowners wanted the space created by the new addition to flow seamlessly into the original house. The addition design solves the functionality issues created by a too-small house and aesthetically ties together the home’s main floor. On the exterior, the addition design ties into the existing roof lines and considers the lot size.
The Kitchen Design
We’ll remove a mechanical venting chimney from the living room, seal up a doorway, and take down the wall between the old kitchen and dining area to capture more space for the new kitchen.
Our clients wanted more storage, so we’re adding lots of pantry cabinets to hold kitchen supplies and cleaning supplies like brooms and vacuums. The kitchen will have some upper cabinets but will also feature custom open floating walnut shelving.
The kitchen design has a vintage-modern vibe in a black and white palette accented with walnut details and a pop of gold from the dining room multi-pendant chandelier. The custom shaker-style cabinets will be painted Sherwin Williams Snowbound with contrasting matte black cabinet pulls. The honed white mosaic tile backsplash repeats a unique cube pattern. Floating walnut shelves will be custom fabricated for the space. The white quartz countertops selected have a faint veining like marble. The peninsula countertop features a waterfall edge detail. Accent walls will be painted Sherwin Williams Before The Storm, a dark charcoal grey.
Primary Bedroom & Bath Design
Upstairs, the addition adds a bedroom and a bathroom, creating a new primary suite for our clients and the opportunity for an existing bedroom to become an office or guest space. The new primary bedroom will have windows overlooking the park across the street, allowing for lots of natural light.
The new bathroom will have a generous walk-in shower with walls in white subway tile, a black hexagon mosaic shower floor, and matte black plumbing fixtures. A quartz-topped custom walnut vanity with gold pulls and a brass sconce adds warmth to the bathroom palette.
