Minimal and clean! Targeted kitchen and bath renovations to this house in Chapel Hill achieve a large impact with a few key moves.

The formerly cramped kitchen is opened up to the dining and living room, creating a gracious new open plan layout. Quiet and minimal design provides a functional yet sleek new kitchen.

View from the living room toward the kitchen, begging to be opened up so the owners can cook, dine, and socialize with their family and guests in a single unified space.

Small existing kitchen, cut off from the house and lacking storage.

Bathroom renovation: A small half-bath is gutted and expanded, creating room for a traditional Japanese-style soaking tub and shower area.

New bathroom floor plan. The soaking tub and shower area live together in the “wet room”, at left.

A small half-bath is demolished and expanded.

A toilet room is treated as a “wooden box”, providing storage and privacy in the small but efficient bathroom plan.