Great new kitchen for an old house
This wonderful white kitchen is part of a well thought out addiiton and remodel by Turnbull, Griffin, Haesloop Architects. This new kitchen was added to the oldest house in Sausalito, CA., as part of a remodel that really connects the home to its creekside location. Those translucent roof panels filtering the sunlight are a touch of genius, aren’t they? This kitchen is a wonderful fusion of tradition and innovation.
photo tgharchitects.com
Here’s the exterior of the house, and so that you get a sense of the whole, the dining room and a little seating area overlooking the garden. With so many windows looking out onto the surrounding greenery, this cottage almost feels like a tree-house.
photo tgharchitects.com
photo tgharchitects.com
photo tgharchitects.com
Oh yes, that’s gorgeous. So great that the tin ceilings were still there after conversion to boarding house and back again. And nice new layout – good that they figured out how to have work surface blocking the low windows, that can be a big problem in older homes. I’m not didactic, I like this remodel that takes it back to a more sympathetic style, and I like the Sausalito add on that doesn’t pretend to be part of the original. They are both good design, even with their different philosophies.
Ok, so what do you think about this?
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20352171,00.html
(BTW, I wish all articles would include floor plans!)
Hi Kate – I like this one – they’ve added a very functional and practical kitchen without doing pastiche Victorian, without destroying the charming appearance of the home. If houses can’t grow and adapt to the way people want to live in them then they’re not doing their job.
An architect who would do this to her own historic house REALLY is an idiot.
It’s not “ugly” or “bad design” — if I were building a new house or remodeling an older house that had already been stripped of it’s historical defining characteristics, I would *love* it.
But it’s not right for that house. And what bothers me as much as the widows and roof pitch are some of the things said about it, like how the new addition is subtle and looks like it’s been there is 1869. Yeah, right…