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Inspiration for a contemporary kitchen remodel in San Francisco

Inspiration for a country dining room remodel in Columbus

This project involved converting a partially finished basement into an ultimate media room with an English pub. The family is big on entertaining and enjoys watching movies and college football. It was important to combine the media area with the pub to create options for guests within the same space. Although the home has a full sized basement the staircase was centrally located, which made it difficult for special configuration. As a result, we were able to work with the existing plan be designing a media area large enough for a sectional sofa and additional seating with the English pub at the far end of the room. The home owner had a projection screen on a bare wall with the electrical components stacked on boxes. The new plan involved installing new cabinets to accommodate components and surround the screen to give it a built-in finish. Open shelving also allows the homeowner to feature some of their collectible sports memorabilia. As if the 130 inch projection screen wasn’t large enough, the surround sound system makes you feel like you are part of the action. It is as close to the I MAX viewing experience as you are going to get in a home. Sound-deadening insulation was installed in the ceiling and walls to prevent noise from penetrating the second floor. The design of the pub was inspired by the home owner’s favorite local pub, Brazenhead. The bar countertop with lift-top entrance was custom built by our carpenters to simulate aged wood. The finish looks rough, but it is smooth enough to wipe down easily. The top encloses the bar and provides seating for guests. A TV at the bar allows guest to follow along with the game on the big screen or tune into another game. The game table provides even another option for entertainment in the media room. Stacked stone with thick mortar joints was installed on the face of the bar and to an opposite wall containing the entrance to a wine room. Hand scrapped hardwood floors were installed in the pub portion of the media room to provide yet another touch to “Brazenhead” their own pub. The wet bar is under a soffit area that continues into the media area due to existing duct work. We wanted to creatively find a way to separate the two spaces. Adding trim on the ceiling and front of soffit at the bar defined the area and made a great transition from the drywall soffit to the wet bar. A tin ceiling was installed which added to the ambience of the pub wet bar and further aided in defining the soffit as an intentional part of the design. Custom built wainscoting borders the perimeter of the media room. The end result allows the client to comfortably entertain in a space designed just for them.

Mountain style enclosed carpeted family room library photo in New York with beige walls, a standard fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

Example of a mid-sized mountain style medium tone wood floor dining room design in Richmond with white walls and no fireplace

Photo: Charles Davis Smith, AIA
Inspiration for a small industrial multicolored one-story mixed siding exterior home remodel in Dallas with a shed roof

Joe Fletcher Atop a ridge in the Santa Lucia mountains of Carmel, California, an oak tree stands elevated above the fog and wrapped at its base in this ranch retreat. The weekend home’s design grew around the 100-year-old Valley Oak to form a horseshoe-shaped house that gathers ridgeline views of Oak, Madrone, and Redwood groves at its exterior and nestles around the tree at its center. The home’s orientation offers both the shade of the oak canopy in the courtyard and the sun flowing into the great room at the house’s rear façades. This modern take on a traditional ranch home offers contemporary materials and landscaping to a classic typology. From the main entry in the courtyard, one enters the home’s great room and immediately experiences the dramatic westward views across the 70 foot pool at the house’s rear. In this expansive public area, programmatic needs flow and connect - from the kitchen, whose windows face the courtyard, to the dining room, whose doors slide seamlessly into walls to create an outdoor dining pavilion. The primary circulation axes flank the internal courtyard, anchoring the house to its site and heightening the sense of scale by extending views outward at each of the corridor’s ends. Guest suites, complete with private kitchen and living room, and the garage are housed in auxiliary wings connected to the main house by covered walkways. Building materials including pre-weathered corrugated steel cladding, buff limestone walls, and large aluminum apertures, and the interior palette of cedar-clad ceilings, oil-rubbed steel, and exposed concrete floors soften the modern aesthetics into a refined but rugged ranch home.

Example of a transitional kitchen design in San Diego

Trendy tile front porch photo in Los Angeles with a roof extension

Bathroom - transitional bathroom idea in Minneapolis

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Example of a beach style l-shaped dark wood floor and brown floor kitchen design in Charleston with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, stainless steel appliances, an island and white countertops

Four season porch with cathedral ceiling, wrapped and distressed beams, tongue and groove ceilings and white tinted rough sawn shiplap walls
This is an example of a mid-sized cottage wood railing back porch design in Boston.

This 300 year old home in Newburyport, MA is given fresh life with an open and eclectic kitchen that holds true to the house's antique heritage. Photos by Eric Roth

Harper Point Photography
Example of a mountain style open concept medium tone wood floor and brown floor family room design in Denver with beige walls and a standard fireplace

Deck - rustic backyard deck idea with a roof extension

Chandler Photography Contractor: Chuck Rose of CL Rose Construction - http://clroseconstruction.com

Jeff McCutcheon A large space that was made narrow by a second staircase. We took the stairs out and turned it into the principle gathering space for the family, combining the functionalities of living room, great room, family room and media room.

Eclectic dining room photo in Chicago with blue walls