First Floor Remodel

Arlington First Floor Remodel

This client wished to create a more functional space for their family with two children to live in, focusing on the first floor of the home and paring it down to the kitchen and dining areas. When the home was built, it included a narrow butler’s pantry adjacent to a tiny kitchen with too many entrances, which eliminated storage capability as well as good flow for cooking and line of sight to other rooms. The clients wished to create a more open flow to the home, and add a half bathroom on the first floor to avoid having to use the only bathroom in the home on the second floor.
Our company eliminated the butler’s pantry, expanding the footprint of the kitchen into that area. Additionally, an extra doorway from the existing stairwell to the kitchen was closed off, enabling a pantry wall to be installed in that location. The wall between the dining area and kitchen area was opened up, and a half bath was integrated into the corner of the home where the back of the butler pantry had been. The existing mud room area was reworked to provide more of a “landing space” to hang and store items. It was a challenge to work around the existing chimney and steam pipes running through the column central to the area, but a solution was designed to work around it that included boxing in the steam pipes with a chalkboard surface for the artistic children.
Initially, the homeowner had also wished to keep a built-in original to the home and refinish it, however the condition of the built-in had deteriorated too much to be kept, so a new niche solution was designed where the old built-in had resided. The overall result yielded a much more functional and efficient space that integrated better flow with more functional storage space for the growing family.

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