The remodel of this 1905 house in Washington Park focused on expanding the kitchen for a family with three young children. Architect Margaret Menter and designer Colleen Knowles also incorporated a modest addition to accommodate a mudroom. To open up the kitchen, the Schultz Miller crew had to move several existing beams and add new steel beams and heavier wood timbers, but the new kitchen and adjacent mudroom look like they’ve always been there. Beyond the kitchen, the project touched almost every room in the house. In between the girls’ bedrooms, we installed a diminutive, mouse-hole-like arched door; in the boy’s room, we built a ladder to a hideaway play loft.

Architect: Menter Architects
Designer: Knowles PS, Architecture - Interior Design
Photos: Steve Keating