The master bathroom, with a window to the back yard.

Looking through the frosted doors of the dining room, through the family room and clear French doors out to the backyard.

The dining room, looking from the entry into the kitchen.

The exterior, with recent roof, new paint job, and the new deck.

The kitchen. The cabinets are the existing cabinets with new doors and hardware.

Looking from the kitchen out onto the new deck.

Our design for the front deck and the new corner entrance to the Kitchen.

The plan, with all of the slight changes. Opening the center bay of rooms and adding the deck off of the kitchen were the most dramatic and rewarding moves.

The kitchen was a fine layout, but the soffits over the upper cabinets were inelegant, and the tile counters needed to be replaced with something less dreary.

The corner of the kitchen, where there was a table to sit at, felt like it could open up to the yard more. Perhaps even be the entrance to the kitchen. We started thinking about a deck.

The rear of the house before the work began.

Walking from the garage to the side door and into the kitchen. We eliminated the concrete stoop, and the door, replacing the stoop with a nice wooden deck and the door with a window. The entrance to the kitchen was moved up to the corner.

The corner of the kitchen, where we planned to have a deck and French doors which wrapped the corner.

Looking along the front of the house toward the living room.

The front of the house from the street, before the work began.

The existing house from the street.

The existing Dining Room. We kept the wainscoting, be removed the doors.

Looking out to the front yard from the Living Room. The eight panel window was replaced with a single sheet of glass which was more energy efficient.

The fireplace and mantel in the exisiting house.

Looking from the Living Room into the Entry, toward the Dining Room.

Looking down the hallway to the Master Bathroom and bedrooms. The in-floor heating system was removed and replaced with central heating and air conditioning.

The back of the Family Room, looking out into the back yard. This seemed like a good opportunity to consolidate the openings and clean up the facade. The accordion door into the powder room is visible to the right.

The Master Bathroom.

The Master Bathroom. It seemed to have had some work done previously, but it was not planned in any coherent fashion.

The Family Room, looking out into the hallway. Drawing the plan of the house we realized that there was a connection to the Dining Room hidden behind the green bookshelf.