The "Garden City Additions and Alterations" project revitalizes key areas of the home by blending modern elegance with classic charm. This transformation includes a bright and cozy living room, a luxurious bathroom with sleek fixtures, an efficient kitchen equipped with appliances, an elegant staircase enhancing the visual flow, and an inviting exterior with meticulous landscaping. Experience how we’ve seamlessly combined style, comfort, and functionality in this beautiful makeover.

The existing structure of this lake home leaned toward a mid-century remodel. Deciding what to emphasize and what to alter was the key to transporting this cottage back into the future. Everything was stained knotty pine and when the walls came down to open up the space we also lightened up with some paint. Reclaimed wood floors were hand chosen by the homeowner for this project...so when the shag carpet left, these beauties went in!

The "Garden City Additions and Alterations" project revitalizes key areas of the home by blending modern elegance with classic charm. This transformation includes a bright and cozy living room, a luxurious bathroom with sleek fixtures, an efficient kitchen equipped with appliances, an elegant staircase enhancing the visual flow, and an inviting exterior with meticulous landscaping. Experience how we’ve seamlessly combined style, comfort, and functionality in this beautiful makeover.

The "Garden City Additions and Alterations" project revitalizes key areas of the home by blending modern elegance with classic charm. This transformation includes a bright and cozy living room, a luxurious bathroom with sleek fixtures, an efficient kitchen equipped with appliances, an elegant staircase enhancing the visual flow, and an inviting exterior with meticulous landscaping. Experience how we’ve seamlessly combined style, comfort, and functionality in this beautiful makeover.

The "Garden City Additions and Alterations" project revitalizes key areas of the home by blending modern elegance with classic charm. This transformation includes a bright and cozy living room, a luxurious bathroom with sleek fixtures, an efficient kitchen equipped with appliances, an elegant staircase enhancing the visual flow, and an inviting exterior with meticulous landscaping. Experience how we’ve seamlessly combined style, comfort, and functionality in this beautiful makeover.

The "Garden City Additions and Alterations" project revitalizes key areas of the home by blending modern elegance with classic charm. This transformation includes a bright and cozy living room, a luxurious bathroom with sleek fixtures, an efficient kitchen equipped with appliances, an elegant staircase enhancing the visual flow, and an inviting exterior with meticulous landscaping. Experience how we’ve seamlessly combined style, comfort, and functionality in this beautiful makeover.

The "Garden City Additions and Alterations" project revitalizes key areas of the home by blending modern elegance with classic charm. This transformation includes a bright and cozy living room, a luxurious bathroom with sleek fixtures, an efficient kitchen equipped with appliances, an elegant staircase enhancing the visual flow, and an inviting exterior with meticulous landscaping. Experience how we’ve seamlessly combined style, comfort, and functionality in this beautiful makeover.

The "Garden City Additions and Alterations" project revitalizes key areas of the home by blending modern elegance with classic charm. This transformation includes a bright and cozy living room, a luxurious bathroom with sleek fixtures, an efficient kitchen equipped with appliances, an elegant staircase enhancing the visual flow, and an inviting exterior with meticulous landscaping. Experience how we’ve seamlessly combined style, comfort, and functionality in this beautiful makeover.

Engineered cedar siding creates beautiful gray-blue tones at the exterior of the home, while adding a textural element to activate the simple exterior design.

Great design makes all the difference - bold material choices were just what was needed to give this little bathroom some BIG personality! Our clients wanted a dark, moody vibe, but had always heard that using dark colors in a small space would only make it feel smaller. Not true! Introducing a larger vanity cabinet with more storage and replacing the tub with an expansive walk-in shower immediately made the space feel larger, without any structural alterations. We went with a dark graphite tile that had a mix of texture on the walls and in the shower, but then anchored the space with white shiplap on the upper portion of the walls and a graphic floor tile (with mostly white and light gray tones). This technique of balancing dark tones with lighter tones is key to achieving those moody vibes, without creeping into cavernous territory. Subtle gray/blue/green tones on the vanity blend in well, but still pop in the space, and matte black fixtures add fantastic contrast to really finish off the whole look!

The existing structure of this lake home leaned toward a mid-century remodel. Deciding what to emphasize and what to alter was the key to transporting this cottage back into the future. Everything was stained knotty pine and when the walls came down to open up the space we also lightened up with some paint. Reclaimed wood floors were hand chosen by the homeowner for this project...so when the shag carpet left, these beauties went in! The custom railing and metal work were all designed with a young family in mind.

Great design makes all the difference - bold material choices were just what was needed to give this little bathroom some BIG personality! Our clients wanted a dark, moody vibe, but had always heard that using dark colors in a small space would only make it feel smaller. Not true! Introducing a larger vanity cabinet with more storage and replacing the tub with an expansive walk-in shower immediately made the space feel larger, without any structural alterations. We went with a dark graphite tile that had a mix of texture on the walls and in the shower, but then anchored the space with white shiplap on the upper portion of the walls and a graphic floor tile (with mostly white and light gray tones). This technique of balancing dark tones with lighter tones is key to achieving those moody vibes, without creeping into cavernous territory. Subtle gray/blue/green tones on the vanity blend in well, but still pop in the space, and matte black fixtures add fantastic contrast to really finish off the whole look!

Great design makes all the difference - bold material choices were just what was needed to give this little bathroom some BIG personality! Our clients wanted a dark, moody vibe, but had always heard that using dark colors in a small space would only make it feel smaller. Not true! Introducing a larger vanity cabinet with more storage and replacing the tub with an expansive walk-in shower immediately made the space feel larger, without any structural alterations. We went with a dark graphite tile that had a mix of texture on the walls and in the shower, but then anchored the space with white shiplap on the upper portion of the walls and a graphic floor tile (with mostly white and light gray tones). This technique of balancing dark tones with lighter tones is key to achieving those moody vibes, without creeping into cavernous territory. Subtle gray/blue/green tones on the vanity blend in well, but still pop in the space, and matte black fixtures add fantastic contrast to really finish off the whole look!

Great design makes all the difference - bold material choices were just what was needed to give this little bathroom some BIG personality! Our clients wanted a dark, moody vibe, but had always heard that using dark colors in a small space would only make it feel smaller. Not true! Introducing a larger vanity cabinet with more storage and replacing the tub with an expansive walk-in shower immediately made the space feel larger, without any structural alterations. We went with a dark graphite tile that had a mix of texture on the walls and in the shower, but then anchored the space with white shiplap on the upper portion of the walls and a graphic floor tile (with mostly white and light gray tones). This technique of balancing dark tones with lighter tones is key to achieving those moody vibes, without creeping into cavernous territory. Subtle gray/blue/green tones on the vanity blend in well, but still pop in the space, and matte black fixtures add fantastic contrast to really finish off the whole look!

Great design makes all the difference - bold material choices were just what was needed to give this little bathroom some BIG personality! Our clients wanted a dark, moody vibe, but had always heard that using dark colors in a small space would only make it feel smaller. Not true! Introducing a larger vanity cabinet with more storage and replacing the tub with an expansive walk-in shower immediately made the space feel larger, without any structural alterations. We went with a dark graphite tile that had a mix of texture on the walls and in the shower, but then anchored the space with white shiplap on the upper portion of the walls and a graphic floor tile (with mostly white and light gray tones). This technique of balancing dark tones with lighter tones is key to achieving those moody vibes, without creeping into cavernous territory. Subtle gray/blue/green tones on the vanity blend in well, but still pop in the space, and matte black fixtures add fantastic contrast to really finish off the whole look!

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Staircase - transitional wooden straight wood railing staircase idea in Chicago with painted risers

This large kitchen was desperately needing a refresh. It was far to traditional for the homeowners taste. Additionally, there was no direct path to the dining room as you needed to enter through a butlers pantry. I opened up two doorways into the kitchen from the dining room, which allowed natural light to flow in. The former butlers pantry was then sealed up and became part of the formerly to small pantry. The homeowners now have a 13' long walk through pantry, accessible from both the new bar area and the kitchen.

This is our very first Four Elements remodel show home! We started with a basic spec-level early 2000s walk-out bungalow, and transformed the interior into a beautiful modern farmhouse style living space with many custom features. The floor plan was also altered in a few key areas to improve livability and create more of an open-concept feel. Check out the shiplap ceilings with Douglas fir faux beams in the kitchen, dining room, and master bedroom. And a new coffered ceiling in the front entry contrasts beautifully with the custom wood shelving above the double-sided fireplace. Highlights in the lower level include a unique under-stairs custom wine & whiskey bar and a new home gym with a glass wall view into the main recreation area.

This is our very first Four Elements remodel show home! We started with a basic spec-level early 2000s walk-out bungalow, and transformed the interior into a beautiful modern farmhouse style living space with many custom features. The floor plan was also altered in a few key areas to improve livability and create more of an open-concept feel. Check out the shiplap ceilings with Douglas fir faux beams in the kitchen, dining room, and master bedroom. And a new coffered ceiling in the front entry contrasts beautifully with the custom wood shelving above the double-sided fireplace. Highlights in the lower level include a unique under-stairs custom wine & whiskey bar and a new home gym with a glass wall view into the main recreation area.