CHIARUCCI CONSTRUCTION LLC
REMODELS
It's a pleasure to make a home more beautiful, more useful, and more pleasant to be in. I look forward to working with clients, architects and designers to bring about their visions. When it comes to a project, my three main concerns are the long term durability, the precision in details, and the overall excellence. I do the work on my clients homes just as I would wish it to be done on my own.
General Contractor-Insured-Home Improvement License-EPA Renovation firm & Technician
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. Burlington, Vermont.
I built a large beam across the house and then removed the walls separating the spaces. The work also included adding these three skylights in the sunroom and the large glass sliding doors.
I built a new laundry area, and added a bathroom.
In the corner are two bookshelves I made for the space.
The bookshelf turns into a desk. There is no plywood in the construction; It's made entirely from birch wood. I also built a matching bookshelf that you can just see on the other side of the wall.
The new cabinets and counters and stone. I installed a radiant heated floor system
underneath the entire first floor level of the house, including the sunroom.
Kitchen Remodel 2
In this kitchen remodel in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I opened the space up and added two skylights and a set of glass double doors to the oustside.
The old kitchen had a narrow opening to the rest of the house.
The client choose a light palette of whites, marble and granite.
I adjusted the hood vent for the new kitchen layout.
The wall behind the new cabinets. All of the openings, gaps and cracks into floors and walls behind kitchen cabinets have been sealed up.
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 some great LED light bulbs out there which more closely mimic natural lights color spectrum.
I built this airtight exterior door jamb on site and then hung the 2 factory made wood/glass door blanks 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 using a brush.
Open Wall Design
I built this load bearing wall trimmed 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 in a home in San Francisco.
I selected the rough boards at a hardwood lumberyard and had them plane both sides and cut a straight edge. They also made these moulding pieces from the same lumber.
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This is the new structural framing underneath the oak.
I built a door to the laundry room 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.
I used 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 I built in forced air electric heat controlled by a simple 0-60 minute push button timer. San Francisco, California.
I added this tall north facing window:
I sealed off one of the old doors to the bathroom and moved the sink against
that wall. The walk in shower was built where the old sink had been.
I added a 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. I removed a wall, sealed off a door, joined the two rooms into one, and built a new bathroom with a new layout.
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 on this job,
but generally I would let the stone guys install all 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.
I curved the upper ceiling corners in this bathroom.
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
A new kitchen with a new layout.
Here we have a 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 up with a cement stucco in preparation for tile.
Here we can see some of the decorative elements incorporated with the stone tile.
