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Tour of Redesigned Kitchen and Bath in House Four

House four of the Elmwood project. Bob tours the finished kitchen, bath remodel project.

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Tour of Redesigned Kitchen and Bath in House Four

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" All right payoff times and the project is finished from the Pella French door that'll keep the weather out to all the finishes in here. I love the contrast we've got these tin ceilings we've got bead board ceilings and we've got contemporary architecture mixed in with the antique it works so nicely. My favorite I think is the reclaimed pine floors. In random widths that we have views from mountain lumber and they've been finished with bona county which -- product and really stand up well in the kitchen. But let's see how Christina and mark like the place what do you think Christina. Bob I love the convenience of the kitchen I love that I only have to go two steps from my refrigerator and microwave oven combination to think it's it's -- nicely designed little kitchen mark. For me it's the way we stay with the historic integrity of the house from within ceilings to the dark cabinets that. And I love the way -- they -- still whirlpool appliances compliment these cabinets Ezra Taft yeah. Now how the bathroom work out take a look it came operate up. Yes excellent you've got your laundry closet right off the kitchen and even -- it was meant to be a powder room. There's enough space that you can fit in something like this Kohler shower that's a corner shards designed to fit into a corner area but it has its own. Glass doors that form the curve so it's a very elegant little addition to the -- it's a full bath what I like is that you make sure you pick the right. Fixtures so they have that look that you're carrying through the whole remodel of the kind of turn of the century with the bead board behind it and everything and then it's all right to add something like. Big East. That Christina chose which are kind of reproduction lights from the thirty's or the forty's everything works nicely together and of course the unifying feature is the reclaimed pine floor that runs right back into the kitchen."

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