This young couple purchased a 1952 rambler with a full basement. Originally they wanted to finish their basement and achieve a more open 1st floor plan with a kitchen remodel and addition, to gain better spatial relationships between rooms for their current entertaining and birth of their first child (which she announced at contract signing!). In making this house a happy home, they knew what they wanted to do, but needed guidance and suggestions to achieve their goals within their budget. We mutually agreed to eliminate the basement finish and decided to focus on the 1st floor kitchen, family room addition, and updating the adjoining spaces.
We designed and accomplished a complete remodel of the existing kitchen with interior wall removed to existing living room, doorway from front entrance into kitchen also removed, and exterior home kitchen wall removed to access new sitting room addition.
Refreshing the rooms involved the following:
The existing gas insert living room fireplace and brick hearth were removed. This was replaced with a new Peacock Green Granite fireplace surround and hearth, painted wood mantle, and the gas insert was reinstalled.
Popcorn texture was scraped off the ceilings, skim-coated, and the sheetrock cove was matched.
Old carpet and Pergo flooring were removed and new 1 ½” x ¾ red oak hardwood was installed in the kitchen, family room, and powder room to match the existing hardwood in the rest of the home. Trim was replaced and painted in the 1st Floor Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Sitting Room, Powder Room and Hallway.
The powder room off of the new kitchen and family room addition received new flooring, trim, a new vanity, cultured marble top, and plumbing fixtures.
The existing home was lacking in attic insulation, so the entire existing house attic was re-blown and air chutes were installed.
While installing the shingles on the new addition, the roofer discovered that the entire existing roof on the home needed to be replaced. The shingles were splitting and cracking and leaking in multiple areas. Apparently when the owners bought the home in 1998 the former owners told her it was a new roof, but it wasn’t. So as part of this project the entire existing home and addition received new GAF Weathered Wood Timberline Shingles
To create room for a large island and remove the wall between the kitchen and living room, we engineered and installed a 2-ply 14 inch LVL 18 foot long beam to support the roof rafter load header down to basement. Subsequently in the basement, an additional structural post and footing were installed.
To remove the exterior home wall from the kitchen to the new family room addition, an intersecting 2-ply LVL 12 inch beam was installed perpendicular to the one mentioned above. This held up the roof rafters and existing exterior wall
