VA Highland Historic Bungalow full transformation

Updated about a week ago · Taken at Atlanta, Virginia Highland

It has been a long 6 months of creating and executing this design for this historic home in VA highlands.

This kitchen was not a "real kitchen" to say the least. You used to walk in from screened porch and then through another exterior door into the side of a 1970's fridge and then you had to meander around it to see the passage to the breakfast room.You also had a stove sort of "loose on floor" with no proper hood ventilation and there was a bedroom immediately adjacent to kitchen that clients were using as a den. Needless to say the walls, did not keep conversation going as people like to do when they are cooking and entertaining.

HERE IS WHAT I DID TO HIS "amazing" 1930's bungalow with such great bones that you walk in now and think no floorplan changes were made if you did not see the before. It flows so well , it was always meant to look this way!

So thankful to have been part of this transformation!

Check out before and after floorplan. ( When we planned this kitchen we thought the wall between bedroom and old ktichen was load bearing, so plans called for a peninsul. During the renovation however, we found out it wasnt! , so we ended up with an island instead!)

So as you can see the bedroom behind the kitchen is now a den and part of the kitchen, the old breakfast area adjacent to the kitchen is now a coffee and wine bar area for the homeowners.

We still kept the formal part of the home separated from this area. We relocated and kept all of the old doors, and door handles where we could, all windows where we could and patched flooring where we could to keep the integrity of this well built house.

We also switched the small bathroom off the old bedroom and opened up the old pantry and mudroom to extend as part of the kitchen and we were able to keep the old bathroom as a powder room with entrance off the mudroom area.

Old back door is now the new entrance area of the back of house at end of mudroom. The old screened porch is now a mudroom and part of the newly finished square footage of the kitchen also made it possible for us to relocate fridge and pantry to open up a lot more space in the main kitchen area where island and sink window are located.

The old den also had a set of double windows. we took them out and added the french doors to complete our renovation by adding access to the back yard by building a deck right off the new kitchen/den combo.

Overall, a fantastic renovation that my " super trooper clients" who have had to deal without a kitchen for the last 8 weeks while I have gone about the business of tearing the old down and putting the new back together!

It has been a long 6 months of creating and executing this design for this historic home in VA highlands.

This kitchen was not a "real kitchen" to say the least. You used to walk in from screened porch and then through another exterior door into the side of a 1970's fridge and then you had to meander around it to see the passage to the breakfast room.You also had a stove sort of "loose on floor" with no proper hood ventilation and there was a bedroom immediately adjacent to kitchen that clients were using as a den. Needless to say the walls, did not keep conversation going as people like to do when they are cooking and entertaining/

HERE IS WHAT I DID TO HIS "amazing" 1930's bungalow with such great bones that you walk in now and think no floorplan changes were made if you did not see the before. It flows so well , it was always meant to look this way!

So thankful to have been part of this transformation!

Check out before and after floorplan. ( When we planned this kitchen we thought the wall between bedroom and old ktichen was load bearing, so plans called for a peninsul. During the renovation however, we found out it wasnt! , so we ended up with an island instead!)

So as you can see the bedroom behind the kitchen is now a den and part of the kitchen, the old breakfast area adjacent to the kitchen is now a coffee and wine bar area for the homeowners.

We still kept the formal part of the home separated from this area. We relocated and kept all of the old doors, and door handles where we could, all windows where we could and patched flooring where we could to keep the integrity of this well built house.

We also switched the small bathroom off the old bedroom and opened up the old pantry and mudroom to extend as part of the kitchen and we were able to keep the old bathroom as a powder room with entrance off the mudroom area.

Old back door is now the new entrance area of the back of house at end of mudroom. The old screened porch is now a mudroom and part of the newly finished square footage of the kitchen also made it possible for us to relocate fridge and pantry to open up a lot more space in the main kitchen area where island and sink window are located.

The old den also had a set of double windows. we took them out and added the french doors to complete our renovation by adding access to the back yard by building a deck right off the new kitchen/den combo.

Overall, a fantastic renovation that my " super trooper clients" who have had to deal without a kitchen for the last 8 weeks while I have gone about the business of tearing the old down and putting the new back together!