Whole home
Sewall St. — Newton
Full gut down to framing. Kitchen, three baths, refinished floors, and new HVAC routed through the old chases.
121B Tremont St., Suite 24, Boston, MA 02135(617) 397-5158
Mill St. was a 1930s center-entrance with an awkward first-floor flow — kitchen at the back, dining room at the front, a narrow hallway between them that nobody used. The owners wanted the wall opened, the kitchen rebuilt, and the primary bath gutted to studs. We engineered a new structural beam before any demo, sized for the wider opening with a margin for the second-floor load.
The new kitchen runs a peninsula with a six-foot island. Cabinets are a painted inset line in a warm off-white, cup pulls in solid brass, and a slab of honed Cambria on the perimeter. The range hood is custom millwork over a vented insert, flush with the wall and trimmed to match the upper cabinets. The primary bath has a walnut shaker vanity, a twelve-by-twenty-four porcelain floor in a running bond, and a walk-in shower with a brass Kohler Purist trim set.
We stayed ahead of lead times by ordering the cabinets the week the design got signed. The shower glass came in a week early and the install ran on the scheduled Thursday.
“The wall between the kitchen and dining room had been on our list for six years. The structural beam was engineered before any demo, and the final inspection cleared with no punch items.”
