Family Gathering

In a quiet neighborhood in the middle of a busy city, a first floor renovation. Including both open-concept kitchen renovation and cosmetic overhaul of the general living spaces. The clients, Dan and Rebecca and their young daughter, enjoy a beautiful 1890s townhouse on a quiet side street in the Heights neighborhood of Jersey City. Their home is an oasis from the busyness that surrounds them. They love to host their friends and extended family and the kitchen is the heart of their life at home. It was important to me that everything about this renovation mirror the feelings of warmth and hospitality that this family exudes.

The open-concept design joined kitchen and dining room to optimize the utility of the existing space without adding any square footage to the footprint of the house. A full gut renovation of the kitchen modernized the workspace and added storage. New electrical fixtures and new white oak rift and quarter-sawn white oak floors updated the space and improved the general comfort. Updates to the cabinets and trim, and creative use of the new load-bearing arch evoke a refined elegance.

With the new layout, the clients have a significantly improved cook space with better flow and ergonomics. Further, by disposing of the traditional formal dining room, they are gaining a family gathering space which is simultaneously more comfortable and more grand and luxurious. The interior design is the product of a collaboration between Shamika Lynch of Maximizing Tiny of Jersey City and the architectural team at DelNoble Designs in Park Ridge, NJ. Kitchen cabinets were supplied by Trinity Cabinets.