Belmont Open Kitchen and Sunroom Remodel

The first floor of this Belmont home was split into a separate kitchen, dining room and living room, with an enclosed porch off the back used as a sunroom. The kitchen was a narrow galley, and the basement stairs came up right where an open plan needed to go.

We drew the floor plans and took the kitchen, dining and living rooms down to the studs. Opening them up meant carrying the floor above, so a structural engineer confirmed the design and we installed an LVL beam, set on posts down to the foundation, with temporary walls holding the floor while it went in. We removed the old basement stairs, filled in the floor, and rebuilt the stairs underneath the second-floor staircase.

The sunroom became real living space: new windows and an exterior door, spray-foam insulation, plaster walls, oak floors and its own heating zone, opening to the dining room through double glass doors. New Andersen windows, painted shaker cabinets, a stainless apron-front sink and oak floors woven through the whole floor tie the rooms together, with the original brick fireplace on a new hearth anchoring the living room.