Kitchen
Wright St. — Arlington
Opened the load-bearing wall between kitchen and dining, replaced cabinets with flat-panel whites, quartz counters.
121B Tremont St., Suite 24, Boston, MA 02135(617) 397-5158
The Prescott St. house had a galley kitchen against the back of the house with a stair landing that was four inches too short under the Arlington code. The owners wanted the galley opened to the dining room and the landing brought to current code. Both jobs needed the wall opened up first.
We engineered a flush LVL beam sized for the wider opening. The back stair landing got rebuilt with new stringers, a longer tread run, and a code-compliant railing — the old one was a nine-inch rise and a nine-inch run, which has not been code in this state for decades. Cabinets are Fabuwood Galaxy Timber in a walnut shaker, counters are a honed quartz, and the backsplash is a three-by-six zellige in a quiet warm white.
Floors are white oak, patched through the old wall line and feathered in with two passes of stain. The trade schedule held — every sub showed up on the day the proposal said they would. Final punch list cleared in two visits.
“Galley-to-open conversion with a new beam. They rebuilt the back stair landing because the old one was not code. Every trade showed up on the day the schedule said they would.”
