This enchanting 24 feet wide, 4 story row house has been originally divided to small rooms, tiny washrooms and an 80 square feet kitchen below the stairs at back.

The goal of the re-design was to infuse the owners life-style of culinary hosting.

For that purpose walls on the main floor came down and the kitchen was moved from the backside of the house into the middle of the floor plan to instantly emerge as the heart of this residence.

A mud room and a door to a new deck are now filling the spot of the old kitchen. The clear circulation path from the main entrance to the deck door and the alteration of the floor plan into a single Great Room allows for natural light to penetrate the structure throughout the day and the changing seasons.

In this configuration as functions share the total floor area the space seems greater than it is.

Work included alteration of 4 stories layouts, new kitchen, new systems, doors, windows and finishes. Historic wood details and hardware were preserved and juxtapose the contemporary styled elements and color scheme that the the owner elected to use. A deck and a new door to the deck were fashioned to fit the historic structure.