At the Intersection of Art, Architecture & Design

Thoughts about ways to keep kitchen remodeling costs down.

This is a great galley kitchen for a small home. It’s got 2 9 ft counters with a sink on one side and a 36″ cooktop on the other.

You’ll get dizzy from the myriad window choices in remodeling your home. There are several basic choices you’ll be making. The first decision is about whether to use replacement windows or new construction windows.

4 rules of thumb to successfully remodel within the existing footprint of your home. Doing so can save you money and more importantly can deliver the house of your dreams.

Remodeling within the existing footprint allowed this family to live their dream.

This is the 5th article about taking an isolated kitchen in an older home and making it the center of today’s activities. While not strictly a galley kitchen, the kitchen in this 1930’s home is isolated from the rest of the house. My clients asked how they could make the kitchen the center of the home

Rooms feel more comfortable when natural light comes from 3 to 4 sides of a indoor space. We can accomplish this by borrowing light from other rooms or from hallways. In this article, I show 3 examples.

This is the 4th article about taking an isolated galley kitchen in an older home and making it the center of the family’s activities.

This is the 3rd article about taking an isolated galley kitchen in an older home and making it the center of today’s activities. The original kitchen had adequate space — including adequate counter space — so we didn’t need to enlarge the kitchen. Instead we removed the wall …

Galley kitchens can be very effective work spaces. The big problem with galley kitchens in older homes is that they are cut off from everything — and often have limited counter space. I’ve yet to find a small galley kitchen that I couldn’t successfully incorporate into an open plan.