City of Falls Church, Bath Design
Year Home Built : 1988. Previously remodeled within 20 years.
Features:
Cabinetry as shown: Dura Supreme Cabinetry Bria (frameless cabinets) Hudson door style (price group 1), latte finish, furniture board case.
Items shown but not included in price:
Latte Love Kitchen
Year home built: 1961
Design by: Kat Reynolds
Features:
Items are shown but not included in the price:
This kitchen remodeling project in Washington, DC was started by Bath + Kitchen about a year after the kitchen was remodeled by a flipper. The flipper took dozens of shortcuts in construction, made design mistakes, used cheap materials and committed permit fraud. Frankly, it’s a miracle the house is still standing given the severe structural issues we discovered after completing the demolition. Below is a shortlist of code infractions:
Major structural issues:
Other code violations:
Includes design, all materials, construction, permits and inspections.
With an island that left little room for navigation the original kitchen was lacking in flow. Overall the kitchen wasn’t quite wide enough to have an island with seating. In the design we were able to take advantage of the odd bump in by utilizing a peninsula.
We relocated the sink to the bay window area. In the process the bay windows had to be replaced and raised higher. Where the old sink and dishwasher was located was converted to an area for the range. The old window above the sink was closed off and we created space for two large awning windows to the right and left of the paneled hood.
To the left of the exterior door was a non-functional coat closet. It was fairly cramped and difficult to access the back corner of the closet. During the kitchen design phase we decided it was best to eliminate this closet to create space for tall cabinets with roll-out trays.
We also converted a narrow pantry cabinet space into a base cabinet with walnut floating shelves above.
The kitchen is designed around our clients and how they’ll use it day to day. It features cabinet accessories (including a mixer lift) in all the right places. Also, the kitchen triangle was honored so this will make for not only a gorgeous kitchen but a highly functional one.
The large windows are great for bringing in a lovely patio scene as well as natural light. It opens up the kitchen to make it feel larger than it is. Windows do take up precious wall cabinet space. Luckily we were able to eliminate a cramped closet and convert it into tall cabinets with roll-out trays. We also have a tall cabinet with pull-out arena shelving to the right of the fridge.
