Buckner

We purchased this house for resale in 2000. It was built in the early 1920's, has ten foot ceilings and original pine floors. The floor plan was functionally obsolete by today's standards. We overcame this problem by relocating the kitchen to the center of the house next to the sunroom, putting both bedrooms on one side of the house.  This created better access to the bathroom, and separated private and public areas. In this project all utilities were upgraded and the home was networked for high speed internet access.

What was done..

• We relocated the kitchen to the center of the house for several reasons. This room had 5 entries leading into it from the living room, old kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and an addition, which was seven foot wide and twenty four feet long. The addition opened into the center room with an opening about four foot wide by six and half feet tall and  fourteen feet long with windows looking into the backyard.  We changed the opening into the addition by widening it to eight feet wide and raised it to eight feet tall, thus making the two rooms seem as one and creating a dining area.   The rest of the addition consisted of an outside entrance, laundry area and closet. In the kitchen we installed an island which contained the sink and dishwasher. By doing this, it gave the home owner a view into the backyard and enabled conversation between people sitting in the dining area and kitchen

  • The bathroom was awkward, it was six feet by six feet in size, only had a shower stall, sink, and small window. Just enough room to get around. There was a storage room about the same size, directly behind it with a large window. We removed the wall, created a chase for the furnace and installed a vintage bathtub which is four feet by four feet in size, with a seating area positioned   under the window. We installed dual shower heads and ceramic tile walls. We also installed quarry tile floor, matching toilet and new maple vanity with top and faucet.
  • We converted the old kitchen into a bedroom. We left the upper cabinets in place on each side of the window, but we removed the doors and added custom cabinets below matching the uppers, thus creating built in book shelves. The thought behind this was the bed could be placed under the window for a built in look. This room also leads into the laundry area, which also leads into the dining area and also has the back entrance into the house.
  • The living room and bedroom were flipped flopped. By doing this we now have both bedrooms on the same side of the house, with the public areas ( living room, kitchen, dining, and bath) on the other side. of the house.