Historic Restoration
Historic Germantown
A full restoration of one of Germantown's surviving Victorian cottages, keeping the porch joinery and standing-seam roof while rebuilding what sat behind them.
The original plan did what plans of its era did: it walled the kitchen off from everywhere anyone actually wanted to be. The brief was to open it into the dining and living space while keeping the trim, the proportions and the character intact.
Structural work came first, with the wall between kitchen and dining removed and supported above. From there the room was rebuilt around how the household uses it: a long island with seating on one side, a run of custom cabinetry in stained timber with glazed uppers, and a built-in banquette under the windows for the meals that are not events.
Built-in shelving carries through to the living space so the whole floor reads as one room rather than three that happen to be adjacent.
