Blue-Toned Design with Depth and Character
Kitchen, Dining room, and new flooring throughout.
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The renovation challenge
A new larger more functional blue kitchen that has an eat-in space that would allow the whole family to have dinners together. They wanted to retain as much of the original character and details of this one-hundred-year-old home as possible, while still feeling fresh and new. We had to work around the original fireplace location as well as the radiators and window locations.
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the family
Busy family with 5 children who enjoy growing and cooking their own food.
The Pioneer Design-Build Solution
The whole kitchen was relocated from the original (small) location in the home to the under-utilized formal dining room and current eat-in space, after removing the wall between the two. The old kitchen became the new formal dining room, and we opened up the wall to the living room to create a more open living space and finishing the rest of the interior with stunning black walnut hardwood flooring throughout.
The blue kitchen cabinetry was inspired by a marble-painted tile the homeowners loved, and we integrated artfully screened cabinet doors to strategically conceal the radiators, without losing storage. Existing structural features like the fireplace recess and window radiators were turned into functional spaces and storage. Each detail was considered, including making a custom crown knife for the cabinets to align with all of the existing plaster crown moldings and applying a new large format checkered floor as a nod to the home’s original checkered floor. The homeowners can now enjoy a new kitchen large enough for their whole family to enjoy dinners, entertain, or gather to work on puzzles.
