When I added a bathroom to this home in Donelson I raised the floor from the den to match the rest of the home. That meant that there would be three steps to build going to the den (see this post). The homeowner has decided to have me add hardwood flooring to the hallway, but [...] Read More

The kitchen at my Inglewood Cottage project needed some creativity to get to the shape it’s in today- fabulous!! (Professional photos by Zach Goodyear.) Here are some of the challenges that were overcome: 1. Open the wall up between the kitchen and dining area and make it an arch to match the other doorways in [...] Read More

The project that I’m calling my “Inglewood Cottage” project has wrapped up and I wanted to feature a few before and after photos. Most of my work on this project was focused on two different rooms, the kitchen and bathroom. Let’s look at the bathroom transformation first. Professional photography (right) by Zach Goodyear. This bathroom [...] Read More

It’s been a while since I wrote about the Inglewood Cottage project. I finished my part to let the homeowners get everything painted before they put it on the market. I wanted to wait until after they were finished to get some final pictures. Somehow, this home from the 1940′s has retained much of it’s [...] Read More

When I started, the kitchen and dining room were two separate entities, now they are combined into one open space joined by the fantastic maple countertop that rests on the new half-wall in the middle. I say it all the time, but I enjoy projects like this that really transform a home and add to [...] Read More