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Award Winning Restoration
comments (1) April 6th, 2009 in Project Gallery
ErikAndKaren, member
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Cluttered and misused breakfast nook.
Winner of the Griffin Award for residential rehabilitation in Asheville, NC, this home went from "in the rough" to "high-end, green restoration". As part of a whole house restoration, the kitchen got a major facelift. Here are some of the key improvements:
- Space was increased significantly with Concrete Countertops and Maple Cabinets
- Original floor was revealed and refinished
- Upgraded to Stainless Steel, Energy Star appliances
- Restored plaster walls and ceiling
- Period style lighting and fixtures throughout
- The breakfast nook was returned to it's original character with custom built-ins
This home was also featured in WNC Magazine Mar/Apr '09 for it's "green" featrues and overall restoration (http://www.wncmagazine.com/feature/wnc_home/green_revival).
Design or Plan used: My own design - Erik Ostergaard, Urban Home Revival
posted in: Project Gallery, energy efficiency, green building, remodeling, finish carpentry, kitchen, restorations, concrete, appliances, bungalow
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Want to see the winner entries?
Fine Homebuilding editors are a finicky bunch, and opinionated too. So the task of narrowing down the nearly 150 entries from our “Before and After: What’s Old is New Again,” kitchen and bath contest to just five winners wasn’t easy.
After the field was narrowed down to a group of fifteen, the editors convened with coffee and notebooks into a conference room equipped with a projector (for easier viewing). After going back and forth, and sometimes cringing, a few entries kept rising above the others, and viola, we found our winners.
Thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to the winning participants who will be mailed a new, DeWalt 18V 1/2" XRP LiIon Hammerdrill/Drill/Driver kit.
To view the winners, and a few runners-up, click here.
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SouthPaw
Posted: 10:20 pm on May 1st
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