Kitchen 1 & Living area Remodel
This is a kitchen and living area remodel. The old kitchen was enclosed by walls separating it from the living room and the sunroom. The living room also had a wall separating it from the sun room.
A large beam was added across the house for support. This allowed the removal of the walls separating the spaces. The work also included adding three skylights in the sunroom and the large glass sliding doors.
A new laundry area and bathroom were added.
Two bookshelves were built for the corner space.
The bookshelf has a built-in desk. The matching bookshelf can be seen on the other side of the wall. They are both constructed entirely from birch wood.
The new cabinets, counters and stone backsplash. A radiant heated floor system was built
underneath the entire first floor level of the house, including the sunroom.
Kitchen Remodel 2
In this kitchen remodel, a partial wall removal opened the space. Two skylights and a set of glass double doors opening to the outside allowed the bonus of natural lighting.
The client chose a light palette of whites, marble and granite.
The hood vent was adjusted for the new kitchen layout.
The wall behind the new cabinets. All of the openings, gaps and cracks in the floors and walls behind the kitchen cabinets have been sealed.
Installing the supporting brackets on the pony wall for the new stone island.
Closer view of the 18"x18" honed marble backsplash, with a leathered granite counter.
Natural light is easy on the eye. There are very good LED light bulbs which closely mimic the natural lights color spectrum.
This airtight exterior door jamb was built on site. The two factory made wood/glass door blanks were hung onto it after cutting them to size and mortising in the locks, latches and hinges. The trim is 'biscuit jointed' in the corners, permanently joining the pieces together. The doors, jamb and trim are painted with a 100% acrylic semi gloss.
Open Wall Design
This load bearing wall was wrapped in a mixture of quarter sawn and plain sawn 3/4" white oak to replace a solid lathe and plaster wall that had divided the kitchen from the living room.
The lumberyard planed both sides of the selected rough oak boards and cut a straight edge on them, I then cut them to their finished dimensions on the job site. Moulding pieces were made from the same lumber.
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This is the new structural framing underneath the oak.
A door to the laundry room was made from the same batch of white oak. The door stiles are solid 8/4 boards planned down to 1 5/8". The large glass window is a custom made stainless steel framed window on hinges, which fully opens like a door and locks into that open position.
The finish was a two part (A & B) chemically hardening hand applied oil finish, which is quite durable and protective, but still has a natural soft look and feel.
1/2 Bath to Full Bath Conversion
This was originally a narrow 1/2 bath which was placed between two bedrooms, each of which had a door leading into it. The bathroom has a Toto Washlet toilet, and a built -n forced air electric heat controlled by a simple 0-60 minute push button timer.
This tall north facing window was added.
One of the old doors to the bathroom was sealed and the sink placed against
that wall. The walk in shower was built where the old sink had been.
Ventilation fan and canned lights.
Bathroom Remodel
This full bath remodel combined two rooms- a Victorian era water closet, and a shower room next to it. A wall was removed, the door to the water closet was sealed, and the two rooms were joined into one.
This is a waterproof membrane mortared into place on top of the cement board. There are other ways to waterproof shower walls and floors, but this is a good method. It goes underneath the floor as well, which makes this room very waterproof.
I did all the tile work and stone installation myself,
though normally I would let the stone workers install the stone.
The marble heated floor. The inset photo of the bathroom wall shows the heated floor controller, and below it the light switch and the ventilation timer. I use the push button timer for the fan because it allows you to press '10 minutes', or '20 minutes' and it will shut off on its own after thoroughly removing the steam and moisture from a shower.
The upper ceiling corners in this bathroom were curved.
I used a bi-folding glass door that rolls back on this protruding solid stainless rod, which is mounted into the framing of the wall beneath the tile. This allows the tub opening to be unobstructed when the glass is folded against the wall.
Kitchen 3
The kitchen with a new layout.
The demolition photo. In the photo on the right, the plumbing, gas and electrical have been installed, cement board has been attached for tile, and the chimney has been squared with a cement stucco in preparation for tile.
Decorative ceramic tiles were incorporated with the stone tile.
