Hollilynn Kitchen Remodel

We believe your space should reflect your unique personality, lifestyle, and vision. Whether it’s a cozy home renovation or a full kitchen remodel, we are dedicated to turning your ideas into reality.

Our Role
Design and Build

Year
2023

Location
Boise, ID

Details

This project, located in South Boise, included an addition to the master suite as well as a complete remodel to the master suite bathroom and walk in closet. An addition to the kitchen area, removal of existing roofing system to allow for a new vaulted roof system, relocating the main kitchen area and complete remodel of kitchen. It also included removing the weathered existing deck and rebuilding a larger deck with a covered patio area. Additionally a 1200 sq ft shop was added to the garage and the entire exterior was repainted and accent claddings of ship lap cedar were added.

This project page highlights the kitchen addition and remodel. These clients have an amazing view of Shafers Butte and all of the Boise area from South of the airport but the view from the kitchen and living room was broken up by tall skinny windows. The client was unhappy with the layout of the newly purchased home and wanted to explore options for creating a more open environment for the kitchen dining and living areas that took advantage of the amazing views. She also felt limited by the existing closet in the master and was not fond of the existing master bath. Lastly, a shop was requested so that there was space to work on projects year round.

This project was scheduled for completion over 12 months but DSC was able to complete it in 11 months and finish up with plenty of time for the clients to prepare and host their family for Christmas.

Project Brief

Location
Boise, ID

scope
Kitchen Addition and Remodel

timeline
12 months

client goal
Up date and open up kitchen and full remodel

The Challenge

Create an open feel to the kitchen and dining area. -The challenge was that the kitchen and dining area are on the second floor and the client did not want to increase the footprint of the first floor below. The view was also broken by tall skinny windows that made it feel like you were looking at more wall than view.

Our Solution

We used the beam work of the new deck to create a subfloor structure so that we could build a 6’ x 25’ addition to the kitchen area. We removed the partition wall between the kitchen and dining area and relocated the kitchen to the outside wall so that it was not in the middle of the room anymore. We removed the existing 8’, flat ceilings and added a new vaulted roofing system to add height to the space. We also removed the tall skinny windows from the exterior wall and added 8’-9’ wide windows that covered the entire line of sight. This added a panoramic view of the mountains and Treasure Valley from anywhere in the kitchen, dining and living area.

Project Images

This is the kitchen prior to remodel. Low ceilings, compact and dated.

After the remodel we have tall vaulted ceilings, we moved the kitchen to the old dinning room exterior wall and added 6 feet worth of additional space on the North side. All new cabinets, counter, fixtures and appliances.

Customer Review

Bruno & Gretchen VanZeebroeck

Doing an extensive remodel, which we just completed is a very personal thing!! Some builders want you to make every decision before the first day of work commences, which is completely unrealistic and impossible to do. These builders will throw costly change orders at you for the most insignificant thing which doesn’t even alter the cost of the change. When one tears their house apart to create a new one, you are bound to make changes. Most of those changes are an easy fix that don’t affect extra labor, materials, additional equipment rentals and don’t affect the builders timeline!! Of course entire design changes are justified to cost extra, that’s a given. Derek Sammons of DSC took extreme care and time to go over every detail and aspect of the entire process, from planning to demo. and then construction. Derek transformed our original house which was outdated and poorly built into a gem of a house we can now call home!! Before every major step forward, he was clear and precise that if we wanted to do anything different, no matter how slight, now was the time to do it at no extra cost. We can’t praise Derek’s professionalism enough!!! We finished under budget rather than over which is most often the case, and most of all ahead of schedule by a month. Derek is a joy to work with, in addition to being extremely talented and knowledgeable in all aspects of construction from tee to green and he is a genuinely nice person. He is now a member of our extended family! All in all we would highly recommend Derek and DSC to friends, family and complete strangers. Bruno and Gretchen