The project featured this month is a remodel to the Bejcek residence. This family lives on several acres in a house that is a true log home. The kitchen was a very small galley kitchen that had a small eating area next to it, and the owners wanted to expand both spaces to accommodate frequent visits by family and friends. The Bejceks also wanted to expand the existing laundry room and connect it with a hall bath so they'd have easy access to the outdoors.
The original oven was not quite large enough for all of the family's cooking needs and there was only about eighteen linear feet of counter space to work on. We pushed the entire rear wall out a total of ten feet and expanded the kitchen, eating, and laundry room areas into the new space.
Because the family has a business that is run out of the home they wanted easy access to the detached office space via a new mud room. An open kitchen/living concept was not desired in this instance and so we designed a sliding barn door to cover the opening to the kitchen for when things got noisy in the living room. The owners told me that last Christmas they were able to host a gathering of at least two dozen people in the dining area by adding another table to that space. Even thought it was a tight fit they said they were able to achieve their goal of not having to split their family and friends between various tables throughout the first floor.