Residence Remodel

Redwood City, California

Partial interior remodeling of a 1947 single story 3,600 square foot residence in highly desirable Edgewood Park.  The client was a close friend of another client of mine.  We worked closely together on her vision to primarily make over the rather formal and stuffy main spaces of the Study, Dining Room, and Kitchen—along with an attached Guest Unit and Bathroom remodels.

The house was chopped up in a series of room compartments behind doors linked by long narrow hallways.  My client wanted to remove walls for ease of movement between spaces—primarily connecting the Kitchen with the adjacent Dining and Study.  Furthermore, the house was U-shaped arranged around an attractive flagstone-paved exterior courtyard which very much suited my client's vision to further expand movement between indoors and outdoors.  A wonder and warmly engaging person, she loved to cook and entertain guests.

Sensitively conceived and integrated structural solutions allowed the removal of load-bearing interior walls around the Study, capturing the wasted space of a long narrow hallway and transforming it all into a spacious Family room.  Furthermore, windows from the previous Study space looking into the courtyard were replaced with a folding door system to directly connect the space with outdoors--ideal for indoor/outdoor entertaining.

The final results represent a successful effort to update a traditional and formal late 1940s home with a more contemporary informal open plan concept.

(All remodel photos by Sunny Scott)

Before Remodel