This Victorian home renovation began with understanding why the additions never quite belonged. An 1889 Victorian home in Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood had everything going for it — ten-foot ceilings, intact millwork, and a layout that still largely made...
Historic home renovation in Denver · Kitchen design There's a moment in every renovation when the room stops being a project and starts being a place. In this kitchen it happened somewhere between the first morning I sat at the island with coffee — made with actual...
The Build: What It Actually Takes to Renovate a 1911 Kitchen There is a version of a kitchen renovation that exists in renderings — clean lines, finishes selected, everything in its place. And then there is the version that exists before that one, where the walls are...
Before anything gets built, there's a period where the room exists only on paper — and the job is to find the layout that stops arguing with itself. For this kitchen, that took five iterations before I got to two concepts worth presenting. A room with three bay...
Every contractor who walked through said the same thing. They were all wrong. The first question every contractor asked when they walked through the home was the same: “How about we just put the kitchen where the old kitchen was?” Every time, my answer was no. The...
This week I want to talk about the cabinet drawers, making our full sized fridge work in our space as well how we are keeping our open shelving functional! If you've been following along with the Fall 2018 One Room Challenge™, then you are already pretty familiar with...
Curating what photos tell the story of the space is one of my favourite parts of project completion. And so, here is the full reveal of the finished Light Filled Folk Victorian Kitchen for the One Room Challenge™. Come on in. I could sit in this...
Last week in the One Room Challenge™, the trim had just been installed. This week we had the cabinets installed and the counters put in! I didn't have time to paint all the trim before the cabinets came in, so I painted the lower corner by the far left window that...
The drywallers came in and gave us some new walls! The dust that sanding drywall mud creates is just as fine as plaster dust, but it doesn't spread as far as the plaster dust did. The fan shown in this photo will be moved to another room. These old fans with only four...
I find it fascinating how a house works from the internals out and incorporating the parts we see (switches, faucets and lighting) to be an integral part of the design process. I liken wiring, plumbing and HVAC lines to be similar to veins and arteries in our bodies....