Galley Kitchen Remodel & Laundry Room Addition
Spaces Included:
Kitchens, Other Spaces, Additions & ExteriorsLocation:
SouthPark, Charlotte, NCProject Scope:
Custom RedesignThe former kitchen of this Foxcroft home, was converted to a wet bar and butler’s pantry. Conveniently located between the remodeled galley kitchen and formal dining room, this new bar area serves as the perfect transition space between the two. Whether arranging flowers from the farmer’s market, mixing up a craft cocktail for a guest, or throwing together a smoothie before a weekday morning workout, this versatile space provides additional storage and workspace away from the kitchen.
Laundry & Mudroom Addition
Bumping out a wall in the garage allowed for the combination and reconfiguration of two storage rooms to create the new laundry room and mudroom space. By capturing unused space from the garage, our design team was able to maximize the square footage under the existing roof with minimal changes to the footprint.
Now the whole family enters their home through the mudroom instead of the kitchen, ensuring wet paws and muddy boots don’t track through the house.
Challenges & Goals
- Create an open concept kitchen with a wet bar and butler’s pantry to cater to large family gatherings and work events.
- Relocate the laundry room away from the center of the house and create a mudroom space for backpacks, sports equipment and puppy supplies.
- Bring the older home up to modern day living standards, while respecting its traditional bones.
Solutions
- Relocating the kitchen to the sunroom and adding a wet bar and butler’s pantry in its place required significant mechanical updates, but ultimately gave this family the spaces they desired to suit their busy lifestyle.
- The new laundry and mudroom addition off the garage gave them the additional square footage they required while remaining under the original roof system.
- Previous, sloppy renovations left a choppy floorplan with bad flow and several code violations. The redesign resulted in a semi-open concept plan for improved traffic flow, while still maintaining distinctly separate areas to honor the more formal aspects of the original architecture.