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Back of House Rearrangements

Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, chicago faucet, green, harvest, heat pump hot water heater, houses, John Mcbride, kitchen, McBride Construction, natural stone counters, process, remodel, salvaged fir, sanco2, skylight, small buildings, small houses, stone countertops, wood on March 13, 2026| Leave a Comment »

This was a very typical job here in Berkeley. So many older houses have strange, bad additions at the back of the house. Perhaps when they were built people still had garbage dumps in their backyards and had no interest in connecting their living space to the yard. These guys had a badly built 1950s era closet tacked on to the back of their kitchen that contained the laundry and a bunch of other stuff. We moved the laundry and all the storage to the middle of the house and moved the kitchen to the back, adding a dining nook and a half bath and a very small extension to the back bedroom.

This is a view from the dining room towards the laundry and kitchen. A skylight over a piece of art beckons you to walk that way.

new half bath with utility sink, reuse of the old chicago kitchen sink faucet

The owner built this nice shelving out of salvaged fir and we extended the window sill into a little shelf over the tile.

Copper induction range with a built-in battery. (Berkeley company.)

SANCO₂ heat pump hot water heater (tank inside, heatpump outside) that doubles as house heating system (Harvest System)

The owner is still finishing up details like the nook and the pantry so I will hopefully have one more update on this project.

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Corpo Kinetic Rehab & Pilates Studio

Posted in Design Projects, tagged color, Corpo Kinetic, Fitness, health, housing, infill, John Mcbride, lighting design, McBride Construction, mixed use, native plants, Oakland, Pilates, ventilation, Warmboard on November 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I have been spending some time enjoying the Pilates and Rehab studio that McBride Construction and I finished last year. At long last PGE hooked up the electricity and the mostly native plants that I helped select and install in front are growing in fast and the studio is shaping up nicely. Calscape has a tool where you can enter your address and it will give you a list of plants they consider native to that spot. This guided some of our choices.

The project involved remodeling the existing floor of the single family house into two residential units – a two bedroom in front and a one bedroom ADU in back, and adding a brand new accessible Commercial space below. (It was a dirt crawlspace)