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Tall Shelving Between Kitchen and Dining Area for All the Dishes

Tall Shelving Between Kitchen and Dining Area for All the Dishes

Efficient Pantry for all the Food

Efficient Pantry For All the Food

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A key part of the design was adding this door from the kitchen to the back part of the house (and future back deck)

New door to back of house

As you can see below, this also gave the bedroom a better connection to the bathroom and more privacy.

NEW FLOORPLAN

OLD FLOORPLAN

These curvy shelves and cherry peninsula were just icing on the cake.

Dark Stained Cherry Peninsula & Curvy Shelves

The homeowner is a bicycle enthusiast (and an artist)

Stained Glass by Charles Carlson

Very cool,.

More photos

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New front door in time for halloween Looking back through the kitchen and dining room addition punchlist kitchen

This Berkeley addition and full house remodel is almost finished and we are all very excited.

I’ll do a full post with before and after photos soon, but I can’t resists giving you a preview. Steve Coleman is the contractor.

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kitchen and cat

Two simple glass cone pendants, one small & white one larger & amber,

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Livingroom – Openhomes Photography

Lighting from Metrolighting and Crafts, Custom cabinetry by Freedman & Chesley, Emeryville, General Construction – Accolade Construction, Palo Alto, Interior Decorating – Ballon Studio

This remodel included rearranging the entire floor plan (1055 SF), vaulting the living room ceiling, All new windows, stucco, venitian plaster throughout, insulation, lighting, plumbing, adding a bathroom and pantry, and a curvy concrete deck.  A very cozy and efficient little house for a downsizing couple with kids off in the world.  Ample storage is key to living in a small house. Many different strategies were employed from pantries to closets with barn doors to custom cabinets.

New Floorplan

New Floor Plan

Old Floorplan

Old Floor Plan

Diningroom – Openhomes Photography

Breakfast nook – Openhomes Photography

Bathroom – Openhomes Photography

hobbit door

New Front door with round window

Hobbit door from Real Carriage Door, Handrail prefabricated by Architectural Metalsmiths, Richmond, Stone veneer on porch & steps by Accolade Construction.

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This fun kitchen was selected for the 2015 Rockridge Kitchen Show! Come take a tour on Sept 20. Tickets available here.

Photos by Nancy Kalter-Dills.

This was actually part of a whole house remodel. Click for  ASBUILT FLOORPLAN and NEW FLOORPLAN to see how the house was rearranged.

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The most important component of this project was rearranging things to make the most of various spaces in a small house. There had been several strange additions over the years that made for a lot of wasted space.

Looking east

Looking east in this spacious new kitchen with fir cabinets, vaulted ceiling, corner windows, LED lights,

We added about 65 SF and way more storage. The old kitchen was actually a hallway with constant traffic flow through the work area. Now traffic stays away from the main work area.

Kitchen before addition and remodel

Kitchen before addition and remodel

asbuilt   new plan     1) New closets in the master bedroom 2) More efficient laundry room by moving one door and adding shelves and counter 3) Water heater moved to exterior and utility room converted to pantry 4) Kitchen expanded to keep the traffic out of the work area 5) Easy attic storage created

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Nice Big Pantry

Vaulted ceiling creates room for a large pendant light

We also added an attic access stair for even more storage!

Photo Credit – Nancy Kalter-Dills

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Addition at the back

I am very pleased with the progress on this project. Windows and doors are next!

 

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We recently finished this kitchen expansion project in Berkeley. Nice work Greenfield Builders! Photos courtesy of Chris D’Andrea the general contractor (Greenfield Builders)

2015-07-08 13.51.20 Fir Kitchen

Exterior

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My Rockridge project is getting finishing touches slowly but surely. These are just quick snapshots of things I am excited about.

Teak Bench, Glass tiles, stone floor

Teak Shower bench with glass tile walls and stone tile floor

Fir Barn Door

Fir Barn Door

Kitchen

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Tin Ceiling Tiles

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Colorful diningroom

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curving shelves

This is the unfinished kitchen of a creative scientist. I helped him with many aspects of the design, including these shelves, but he and the builder are a creative force to be reckoned with. The shelves curve in plan and get bigger as they go up. The cabinet maker will return to rebuild the center three verticals with angles like the end panels. I will post another picture. Still to come a curvy peninsula and new countertop and floor. I will also get pictures of the whole kitchen when it is finished.

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Angled Pantry Shelves 1 Angled Pantry Shelves 2

Photos by John McBride

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