We Moved the Kitchen Into the Living Room - 1930s English Tudor Renovation- Full Home Tour

Hello and welcome to our Park Hills project in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This was a beautiful home that we got to work on a 1930s English Tudor that we did a full gut remodel on with our building partner BDR Construction, but there's also a huge addition in the back that just makes the house. Come on in and check it out. Well welcome to the vestibule. In so many good old homes there's a vestibule first with a door to a front hallway and this is no exception. One of the fun things that we did in here was make this space a little larger. There used to be a little nook right here that we couldn't quite figure out. There's a beautiful art glass window that we wanted to make sure could just shine. This floor is gorgeous. It's a four by four checkerboard from Ann Sachs and it has this kind of beige castelli marble with Calcutta and we set it on a 45 degree angle. I have to say I was not sure about this mix of materials when you first showed it to me, but I love it. It's perfect. And there's so many great details in here. The wallpaper, the grass cloth with the print. I and that's actually the homeowner's dad's name when we presented it and she said it's called the Lloyd. I have to have it. We just knew it was meant to be. The floor in here was parquet that was I think maybe put in in the 1970s didn't really fit the house and this is a much better choice. Yeah a herringbone that matches the original floor stained the same fits perfectly in this foyer. It really does. There's so many beautiful features in here that were original like the plaster freeze molding and and then this railing with all these carved details. Great. There's three different types of spindles on this original railing. I just love it. There's a fun part of this. There was a little narrow deep coat closet here. We walled up the and used all that space inside that closet for this beautiful bar in the den. I love it. I love it too. We put on a quartzite countertop, mirror tile backsplash, this beautiful gilded light fixture, wallpaper around the whole. It's just very glamorous don't you think? I think it's so glamorous and so functional too like refrigerator drawers right here. A little sink with a tap. It's just such a great spot and it's open to the office but putting in these double doors into the office made this space so functional. The office is this great space with so much light and beautiful built-ins. I love the materials in here. Yeah we were able to put this built-in that has a ton of storage. Super functional and a freestanding desk. It's not a huge space but it works just perfectly. This is Sutton Blue from Stover Home Cabinetry and we decided to run the wallpaper back behind the shelves as well. And then use the same color around all the trim in the insides of the doors. I love this door style. Like the three-quarter. I love it. With the panel at the bottom. It's such an architectural detail and so pretty and also so functional. It's like all the best things. Check, check, check. Remember there used to be a door right here that led into the original kitchen. Which is not there anymore. No it is not. Where is the kitchen? I need to show you where the kitchen is. We never put the kitchen where it was originally in these old homes and this is no exception. The kitchen is now in what used to be the living room. And it is epic. Drama. I just think it's amazing. Literally the first time I walked into this house and saw this room all I could think was kitchen. Just imagining the fireplace, the bay window that could become a I was convinced there was a way we could figure out how to make a kitchen work here. Especially since there was a sunroom behind it that I thought could be a good back kitchen. I love it. It turned out so beautiful. This cabinetry is dorset tan and this is the 48 inch monogram range. And this is the monogram brass hood. Which is a absolute showstopper in here. It's ridiculous how pretty it is. Our homeowner is quite a cook, quite a baker. And you know this idea of putting the kitchen in the living room just seemed so perfect for her because all of their kind of family life is always in the kitchen. So taking away a big living room and then just giving them a cozy den was perfect for them. This is White Duck by Sherwin-Williams. Which I think is a funny name for a color. White Duck. And it's a really soft white. We thought with the wood trim in here you can't have too stark of a white. Otherwise there's too much contrast between the trim and the walls. So this White Duck ended up being perfect and it's almost everywhere. In the den we were just in that is Sherwin-Williams Outrigger. And you know a thing like this when you're thinking about kitchen design in an open space like this with lots of windows and it's a very architectural space. You really have to be careful about especially wall cabinets because they can kind of affect the symmetry. Or feel a little too kitchen-y. And too small. Yeah. Understated. Yeah true. So we decided to look at this space like the architectural gem that it is and not put wall cabinetry in here. And instead do a very substantial slab backsplash with just such a pretty detail and little ledge at the top. And it's this type of scale I feel like carries a room with this much importance. Yep. This area right here I think is so pretty. And I just I mean if this were my space I would be hanging out here all the time. This is where I would have my laptop. But with the cook right there it's just conversational. This is the ended up being the perfect size for a banquette. And I love this fun foliage upholstery with the dark ground. It's like a tapestry almost. Deep marble table and the deep upholstery on the chairs. It's just a moody moment. Yeah. And it really works in here. Really really pretty. One thing I think that really helped the room a lot too to kind of bring it all together was the addition of these ceiling beams. I felt like it needed just a little bit more I would say strength up top. Combining with the Juliet balcony and the other dark wood molding around and the mantelpiece it really balanced the room out. Yep. That addition. And it gave a landing spot for these two oversized fixtures. We didn't put pendants over the island. We used two large room fixtures. And these are from Hudson Valley. And they're available on Stouffer Home. And they are just really a piece of art each one. And I love that they're a little bit more modern. This is a very traditional space. I do too. It feels gothic in a way. And the modern light fixtures just give it a contemporary feel without doing something that is too outside the box modern. It truly is that blend of very traditional particularly in the architecture. Classic I would say the cabinetry design and the backsplash design is very classic. And then just ramping it up a little bit with the modern light fixtures, the modern faucet detail. This is one of our favorite workstation sinks. Yeah the Kohler Prolific. And then these are another Kohler faucet too in polished nickel. And there are two of them. Yeah a lot of times you need two different water temperatures. People are working to either like wash dishes, rinse vegetables. You know it's really nice to have two temperatures in a big working kitchen like this. It turned out to be a very functional whole setup for the sink. Dishwasher here. Trash over there. Storage here. Storage on the other side of the island. Wide storage drawers on either side of the range. And then these skinny but useful cabinets. Yeah these are great like for cutting boards and cookie sheets and things and all kinds of spices and knife block. She does have her dishes in the drawers which kind of takes care of all the things you need on a day-to-day basis right here. But there does need to be storage. So that's why we have the back kitchen because the pantry has all kinds of amazing storage. And to start off with is the monogram column refrigerator and freezer. Two separate units. But look what you can do with it as far as design. It looks like a beautiful armoire. This used to be a sunroom. It was a step down into the space and we lifted up the floor so it could be flush with the living room. But there were original windows here that made a lot of sense where they are and outside they're in stone and brick and so these were not going to change. But we just took heart that this happens all over these beautiful old heritage homes and we're deciding to embrace it here too in West Michigan. This room took a tremendous amount of engineering. Yeah. By code you have to have outlets every so many feet and where do you put outlets in this without breaking through your countertops and doing pop-up outlets in the top which I know you can do. Yeah. But we were not crazy about it. So look at this detail. This is a Prado outlet that we buried in the mullion. This is a shout out to BDR, the construction team on the job, but this piece is brand new and it went over top to fit the outlet in it and having the outlet be black with a dark trim just makes it go away. I think it is one of the most custom details out there. This ceiling actually has the cove on it which was original and a really cool detail so we just had to make sure that our light fixtures and our cabinetry were going to work with that cove in the ceiling. Right. We had to pull the cabinetry down off the ceiling so that we could see that beautiful curve. And speaking of the cabinetry, this is Stouffer Home cabinetry in Bradbury Green with some really fun details like these pilasters that have sconces that fit just right on them. These are library sconces that have a shade and then we used a walnut paneling behind the coffee bar portion. This kitchen is a workhorse. It's great if you need a catering kitchen, you know, like if you entertain often and need to have a back kitchen where people can set up. It's great when you have people over, you know, like you could set up a dessert bar here or cocktails here but all the extra food could be going in and out of here. You should show this detail, Grace. Yeah. These cabinets sit on the counter so the counter goes all the way through here and that is really functional when you're using appliances because there's outlets back there so you can just pull them out and use them because you're already on counter. I just love this space. I love the stone floor in here too. You know, by raising the floor we couldn't use the original floor so this dual shape material that you picked and the pattern. Yep, it's actually a concrete tile. It's from Ann Sachs and it was the staggered pattern that worked perfectly. I love it. I love that design, Grace. So this room has plenty of function but right across the hall is another really functional room. The laundry kind of mudroom that wasn't always that. No, it used to be the kitchen. It has a new life now. Cutest laundry room. I think this is a much better use of space than a tiny kitchen. A mudroom laundry room combo. This is a beautiful wallpaper and we decided to go on the ceiling too which I love that total encompassing feel and then this wainscoting is a little higher than typical which I really like how it wraps around the room and the sconces are able to go centered on the window right above it. This is a probably a good room to talk about the fact that the ceiling height in this house throughout is about eight feet three inches which means our lighting selections for ceiling mounted lighting had to be very carefully done. So throughout the home you're going to see some really beautiful fixture selections for eight, eight three ceiling heights. You don't have to have a big, you know, hanging pendant. They have something really exceptional. We're going to go upstairs which has original three bedrooms and two bathrooms and then we'll head to the primary suite which I think is going to be a really pretty surprise. Okay and then coming upstairs the original house layout was perfect. Two small guest rooms, a big en suite over there but these are great sized. Yeah these were such fun bedrooms to design because they're quaint but they have some fun details. This one has an arch and a little built-in and the other one we were able to do a fun wallpaper and she had this vintage sconce that we put on the wall and it's just one of my favorite pieces. It is so it's like art honestly. And the size of this bathroom was the original size so it's it's small but it has a full tub and vanity toilet. There was actually an architectural issue here. The roof line was sticking in there. The roof line was sticking into the room and so we had to do something to disguise that and remember the whole team was standing in this bathroom. There were about five of us. Yeah trying to say what are we going to do about this and we all together came up with this barrel arch idea and I think it just looks. Well I think the combination of the architecture of the barrel arch plus it's tiled all the way where it really feels like something so special and you took a picture of this when it was halfway done or almost done but now I see it everywhere on Pinterest. Yeah I just put it on Instagram stories and then all of a sudden I'm looking for bathroom inspiration for another project and I was like wait that's that's the bathroom at the Park Hills. So it's kind of fun to see your work when you're looking for inspiration. Yeah yeah. This is Stouffer Home Paddington Vanity in Chelsea Taupe and we did this fun backsplash detail, a perfectly appointed mirror, these alabaster sconces. To kind of give it a little modern flair I think. Yeah this is the Canyon Lake tile from Ansax the Studio McGee line and this is also Canyon Lake on the floor but in the mat and it's a four by four checkerboard. Well yeah the only thing left up here is now the secondary suite. Used to be the primary suite but now is the secondary suite. So really all we did is just redecorate this. Just some drapery, grass cloth, paint, really cool light fixture. As you know I have a big thing about seeing a toilet. I do not like seeing toilets. I like tucking them away and hiding them and the toilet used to be right here so you would walk in the door and hello and so we found a way to reorganize this bathroom. We tried a few different ways actually but came up with this really beautiful sink feature as you walk in. That's what you see and then we have the toilet and the shower tucked way back in here. The finishes here, Grace, the v-groove paneling, the Plymouth green woodward vanity. I just love this whole space. This is their teenage son's room and so we wanted this bathroom to feel a little bit masculine so this is a tumbled marble hex floor and then the dark green vanity. This is a granite top on here and then these mixed metal sconces are really fun to kind of tie it all together. Okay we have one space left to show you and that is the whole new first floor primary suite and a powder room. Oh right. Okay we're now going into the addition part of the house and what's really interesting is that I'm standing in what used to be the powder room. You could see the toilet from the front door so instead of having that view we now have a beautiful hallway through to the addition. This used to be the exterior wall of the house so we're stepping up to get to the right grade. We actually reused this set of French doors that used to be in the sun room leading out to a little deck out there but they were in such good condition and we found a great place for them but this is kind of the rear entry hall and this is where we put the new beautiful powder room. In this powder room we have a stone sink, more wallpaper, again with a wallpapered ceiling and the trim is in this really pretty kind of putty color and this stone floor that was in the laundry room and the back kitchen goes all the way through this hallway and then back. The walls out here are grass cloth. We've got some beautiful artful light fixtures and some antiques. Should we show the fun feature with the toilet? So this toilet is a smart toilet so when you walk towards it it opens for you and I won't demonstrate any more than that. This is now back to the private primary suite. Down the primary hall we have her closet and his closet, this beautiful linen cabinet with antique mirror glass and this gorgeous bathroom. Gorgeous bathroom. It's all new construction but it's cool to make things even that are new construction look like we had to work out little nooks and crannies like the rest of the home. We have a beautiful window with a tub centered under it and then a toilet room and a shower room matching on each side and then the vanity area of the space. They each wanted their own vanity so we have two separate woodward vanities in here. I would say this is the glam room. Yes, totally yes. Yeah there's a crystal chandelier, some crystal sconces but then quite a few modern elements. This floor I would call very modern. Yeah this is the Verde marble and this is the liaison pattern that Kelly Whistler designed for Anzacs. Yep and so we went kind of muted on everything else because this floor speaks loudly in a good way but adding the beauty of applied molding on the walls that carries around the room, the arch like you mentioned. Let's talk about the ledge detail behind the tub because this is something that we like to do pretty often and in Michigan having plumbing on an exterior wall is kind of problematic because it does happen to freeze here for a long time. Yeah yeah so plumbing supplies we really need to pull away from an exterior wall. We love deck mounted faucets versus just you know like in some cases it really works to have that but we love the deck amount of faucet and we came up with this idea a while ago for an exterior wall situation and then realized bonus there's like this ledge for all the things that you want in the bath and then it became this I don't know we've used it now done it several times because it's so functional and it's really pretty. This is the canyon lake in the neutral finish and then what I think is a really great thing that we also often like to do is you open the shower door here the supplies to turn on the shower are right here I don't have to go into the shower to turn it on but the shower heads are on the back and side wall. All right should we go into the room the finale? Yes let's do it. This is exciting I can't wait for you to see it and I want to ask you before we flip around when you do flip around do you recognize something? Isn't this pretty? This is an exact replica of the bay window where the banquette is in the kitchen. We took the whole kitchen and and back kitchen area of the house mirror imaged it and put it right behind so it's this exact replica. We did a fireplace, we did the beams, we did the tall bay, we did the cathedral ceiling now for the primary bedroom. It is one of the most cool things. And when she says way she means she drew it up on the other side. The royal way. Yeah this addition was really a Jean Stouffer idea and I think it was just brilliant and the architecture from the outside looks like it was meant to be here. So great. BDR nailed it the construction firm that we worked with here they nailed this execution I'm thrilled with it. This is just a private kind of getaway space isn't really huge but has amazing architectural detail throughout. I think all in all this project was a joy it was a little bit of a puzzle in a good way and we could not be more thrilled with how it turned out. It's true. 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