From my portfolio: this was my favorite job of the year

I spent the early a part of 2009 operating on a preservation that ended up transforming a home. I don't commonly put up a whole lot of my paintings here, however I'm mainly happy with this one.

Like a lot of homes built in the early '80s, this one was full of unnecessary, non-structural walls and dropped ceilings. I met the clients in question in late January and luckily, I took a couple of photographs of their home as it was the first time I saw it. Here's one:

In this picture, I am status at the entrance to the kitchen from the breakfast corner and I'm searching in the direction of the eating room and the front of the residence. Remember that attitude. Running along the left facet of that photo is a nonsensical hallway and right here's the entrance to it:

That hallway became restricting the gap I had available for the kitchen, but inside of its dropped ceiling became a whole host of AC system. Losing the ceiling and the hallway turned into going to make this a pretty giant preservation. Here's the floorplan as I located it:

The kitchen was shoved into that space on the left facet of the compound attitude wall. Compound attitude walls are a particular puppy peeve of mine and I could not wait to get in there and produce a few performance and a few respectable sight lines to this own family's life.

Once I commenced drawing, I removed the angles and drew in a totally huge island.

The island had to do a pair of things. It had to hold the sink and the dishwasher of route, however I additionally had on the way to cover a massive coffee and espresso machine. The equipment in question is 17 inches tall, and I knew a normal raised bar wasn't going to reduce it.

I called in my favorite contractor Tim Brandt from TNC Builders and we started hashing out a plan to remove everything I wanted to remove.

At across the same time that I was playing round with layouts, my friends at Google SketchUp requested me if I had a version they could use at their alternate show booth at KBIS in Atlanta and the AIA show in San Francisco.

So I despatched them considered one of my early concept drawings.

This changed into quite early into the technique and my customers hadn't even visible it yet. It became useful to get an concept out there though. By the time I had the whole thing labored out, my concept had changed a bit but the idea was pretty set.

Here's what I confirmed my clients and what they signed off on. The raised segment on the left side finished off at fifty four tall as measured from the ground to the pinnacle of the counter.

I exact a wide-style Shaker cabinet door in cherry with a darkish brown, nearly black stain on it.

This is quite close to the stain color.

The flooring were going to get a travertine-looking porcelain. I picked a 19" tile and I wanted it to be set at the diagonal through the whole lower back of the residence.

The final tile was one very similar to this one from Mohawk.

I still like blue and brown shade mixtures, in spite of the traditional know-how about them. So when it came to lights, I seemed to my old standbys, Besa Lighting.

This is Besa's Sasha II line-voltage halogen and the shade is in their Granite glass. I also used a flexible monorail from W.A.C.

The sizeable island became showing a variety of back and I concept it'd be a super canvas to cover in a tumbler tile.

This is Montana from Emenee and I ended up wrapping every exposed inch of the island and the back wall in it.

The counter is a sand-colored quartz composite from Cambria .

The kitchen faucet is the Clairette by Kohler and the sink is the Poise, also by Kohler .

The hardware is a steel bar pull from Schaub and Company , the bar stools are the Radius from Room and Board and the appliances are from KitchenAid . Hmmm, I think I have everything covered now.

So with out in addition ado, right here's how the room ended up.

And If you recall the primary picture at the beginning of the post, I took it even as I become standing at the dinette. Well, right here's that same angle now.

Let's see that earlier than again:

Back in July, I wrote a post approximately a ground transition I'd designed and become very happy approximately. Here's the photo of my S curve transition.

Well, that transition become accomplished for this assignment. It's kind of difficult to peer however the flexible song at the range and fridge side of the kitchen has the identical S curve as the transition among the kitchen and the eating room has. Pretty slick if I may additionally say so myself.

So bottom line, my clients spent somewhere round $60,000 for this whole project. That blanketed a large quantity of creation in addition to casting off the popcorn ceilings from anywhere within the residence. We were in the range of our original budget earlier than the accessories got brought on. We started the tear out in May of '09 and walked out for the last time the primary week in July. That's a nine week of completion and we brought it in on price range.

And this is about as complete a description of what I do as I can muster. You may additionally now leave sparkling feedback. Hah!

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