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Chapel Hill Bungalow: Kitchen and Bonus
This intervention created a large open kitchen and dining room in the previously cramped existing house. The addition features a wall of storage on the kitchen side, and an efficient service corridor with new laundry and bath, which connects to a new dramatic bonus room which serves as a den and occasional guest suite.
The bright new bonus room has exciting and gracious views, balanced with opaque walls to function as a den and guest suite with an appropriate level of privacy.
New open kitchen and dining space. Taking down walls and pulling laundry and storage into the addition enabled this large open space to become the new heart and soul of the house.
Existing Floor Plan
The house’s kitchen, dining, and laundry spaces occupied a series of cramped spaces, highly separated from the lovely private back yard. The owners needed a second living spaces to serve as a family room and occasional guest space.
New Floor Plan
The renovation combines several small spaces into a large open kitchen/dining room, free of columns or dropped beams.
The new bonus room is connected to the existing house with a functional connector holding storage, a new full bath, and new laundry room.
A new side entrry with mudroom new stair provides convenient owner access from the lower level garage.
A clean wall of built-in pantry cabinets and functional corridor from new open kitchen/dining room to the new bonus room.
A tiny cusom built-in niche for dropping off small items on the way into the house from the new utility/owner entry stair.
Custom handle-free pulls bring a warm minimal touch to the wall of built-in pantry cabinets.
Deep storage within.
A wide skylight shaft lights the pantry and side entry area.
View from the living room through the newly open dining & kitchen space to the new expanded deck. Bifold multipanel door by Pella connects inside and out.
Clean details bring a crisp modern feel to ths carefully contextual addition.