Pictures of our Baltimore weekend rowhouse after a complete gut rehab.
Date(s): 2006. Album by Deborah Kosnett. Photos by Deborah Kosnett. 1 - 43 of 43 Total. 1011 Visits.
1 Let's start with the kitchen - my favorite room in the house. (That's my hubby Jeff, reading.) This kitchen actually has a better layout, and is more useable, than the kitchen in my big house.
2 Floor: porcelain tile. Cabinets: blonde wood, Shaker design. Countertops are Corian, "Festival." Lighting: recessed 4" spots (in bulkheads) and Juno dual-circuit monorail lighting (including 3 pendants over peninsula).
3 View from the staircase (the house is 14' wide).
4 View from entrance hallway. We had not yet gotten the dining room table when this was taken.
5 View of kitchen from the back door. (Ah, there's that dining room table!)
6 Same viewpoint, looking toward the stove/work area.
7 View from the basement door. (We did not remodel the basement . . . the height is somewhat substandard.)
8 Back door. The stained glass transom above the door does not open, but it does replace one that originally did. (The entire door is new, and wider than the 30" original.)
9 Close-up of transom. Designed and shipped to us by www.glass-by-design.com, Texas. They do superb work!
10 View of dining room. (gee, that table disppeared again!)
11 Aha, there it is. By the way, the "buffet" is actually part of a bedroom suite. It's shallower than an actual buffet, and so fits the room perfectly. And it was a STEAL at Nouveau! (love that store!)
12 Living room, from viewpoint of the dining room. I had my contractor install recessed 4" spots in all major rooms. The stained glass window you see here is original to the house.
13 Night . . .
14 and day view.
15 Day . . .
16 and night.
17 Custom-designed staircase, powder-coated in brushed nickel finish. All hardware in the house is brushed nickel, except for the bathroom, which is chrome.
18 Day view of the staircase. Upstairs skylights (original to the house, which was built ~1920) provide much light in the daytime.
19 Let's go upstairs, shall we?
20 We'll turn around a minute and look at the front entrance . . .
21 . . . and also at the living room. (Yeah, I know, night and day comes and goes very fast.)
22 View from the top of the stairs. The alcove you see used to be an inside room. I've opened it up, to be furnished with a desk and shelves.
23 Another view, daytime. That's all natural skylight.
24 Night view, from entrance of the back bedroom. Both bedroom doors are double (suggested by my contractor), widening the hall area and making the house look much more spacious than it really is.
25 Same view, daytime. There's one skylight; the other is in the bathroom.
26 Night view, showing edge of cabinets. Another pair may be seen to the right, near the bedroom door.
27 Night view of the master bedroom, showing window bay. (No, we don't always make the bed.)
28 Daytime view.
29 View from near the bay windows, looking toward the hallway. The closet to your right was originally the entrance to that inside room. (Actually, the house had 1.5 closets . . . we increased closet and storage space by several orders of magnitude.)
30 View from master bedroom doorway.
31 Same view, daytime. In the distance is the 2nd bedroom, with the sliding door to the 2nd level deck. There is a spiral staircase leading to the rooftop deck.
32 Notice the transoms? They also were crafted by www.glass-by-design.com. Originally, the single upstairs doors had moveable transoms, for air circulation. I didn't want to keep the old doors, but wanted to recreate (and improve upon) the spirit of the original clear-glass transoms.
33 Close-up of rear bedroom transom.
34 Yes, there is only one bathroom. I could not fit even a half bath in, and keep the rooms a good size. But we did nearly double bathroom square footage. This is a hand-built shower, with inside bench, tiled in ceramic and Bisazza Italian glass tile.
35 Portrait of a toilet. (A Toto: best in the world, IMO. Just TRY and stop it up. Low-flow, too.)
36 Sink, of matching olivine glass. I bought the light fixture YEARS ago. The second thing I bought was the sink - fell in love with it at Expo Design Center. The rest of the bathroom, including color scheme, was fleshed out around that single purchase.
37 Jacuzzi tub.
38 There's that other skylight. Yes, the glass pryamids are original to the house, as far as we know, and have never leaked, as far as we know.
39 One thing about the skylight: it makes wonderful light patterns in the bath area.
40 Dead-on photo of sink (and photographer).
41 Another view of the sink.
42 View of midlevel and rooftop decks.
43 Straight-on view. BTW, those wires were illegally strung - I have to call the city and get them to dun the owner of the rowhouse next door. No wires are supposed to be touching (or attached to) my deck - at least not w/o my permission.
