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What does it cost to renovate a kitchen? I’ve had 3-4 contacts within the past few weeks from homeowners who wish to renovate their kitchens for budgets ranging from $15,000 to $25,000. In their words, they want to gut their kitchens and replace everything from cabinets to lighting to flooring.

The kitchen in this 1950′s split level in Washington, DC had been updated once in the 1980′s. It was overdue for another update — this time, a more modern style central to the house and with better connection to the outdoors.

A New Front Porch and Remodeled Entry Garden Welcomes Family and Visitors.

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 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.

My client wanted media and exercise rooms in the basement of her 1920′s Washington DC home. The media room is the place where she and her boyfriend spend evenings with their large black lab. She wanted it to be comfortable for the two of them on a daily basis