Stone Wall Kitchen
Ages ago, an old stone barn was converted to a house. The previous owner tried to update the kitchen with sad results. The kitchen was claustrophobic. Solution: Open up two walls to offer a view into the living room. Seal the stone, design and build custom cabinets and scribe them to the stone wall, and finish the support column to transition nicely from the elegant living room to the more modern kitchen.
The project was challenging because the client had a fixed move in date in five weeks. At the demo stage, we realized that the house had a lot of the original knob and tube wiring, which meant that the house needed to be re-wired. Once that was done, we were able to concentrate on finishing the kitchen.
We wanted to keep the stone wall, which meant scribing the backs of the cabinets so they would fit against the stone. Also, we built in false-bottoms on the upper cabinets in order to install outlets for counter-top appliances.
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- Stone kitchen before
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- Stone kitchen before – knob and tube
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- Stone kitchen before – oh dear
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- Custom kitchen before – sad window trim
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- Custom kitchen finished – breakfast bar
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- Custom kitchen finished – new view from hall
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- Custom Kitchen finished note open to living room
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- custom kitchen finished note post details
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- Custom kitchen finished note scribed cabinets on stone wall