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Nutley Street Ashland
An Ashland home with a kitchen opened by engineered roof re-framing, a primary bath with a freestanding tub and heated floor, and new cedar stairs and decks.
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At a glance
- Project: kitchen and primary bathroom remodel, new front stairs and back deck
- Where: Ashland
- Finished: 2013
- Main work: design and building plans, kitchen walls and post removed with engineered roof re-framing, new kitchen layout with custom cabinets, primary bathroom bump-out, front stairs and landings, back deck with a new French door, dog fence, garage door
Kitchen remodels typically run $60,000 to $150,000 and bathrooms $30,000 to $75,000 in our area today. The front stairs and back deck come on top of that. See our cost guide.
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The house and what the owners wanted
The house was built around 1985 and sits on a wooded lot with terraces. The owners came to us with a list, in order: new front entry stairs, a remodeled kitchen, a fence to keep the dogs in, a remodeled primary bedroom and bathroom, a new garage door and an updated hall bathroom.
Ben designed the work and drew the building plans. We started in the summer of 2013.
What was built
The kitchen
The kitchen has a new layout. We took out the kitchen walls and a post to open the kitchen to the main part of the house.
Custom cabinets went in with an island. The countertop is glass, with a granite sink. The dishwasher and refrigerator moved to new spots, a new range hood went in, and a new gas line runs to the range. New light fixtures went in, and the new oak flooring matches the oak in the rest of the house.
The primary bathroom
We moved the bathroom walls out to make room for a freestanding tub with a floor-mounted tub faucet. Glass tile covers the walls, and the tile floor is heated.
Front stairs and landings
The new front stairs climb from the driveway in two flights, with a landing between them and a larger landing at the front door. They sit on concrete footings reinforced with steel. The framing is pressure-treated wood with steel connectors and flashing. The treads are cedar, fastened with stainless steel screws. The railings are cedar with wire panels on a four-inch grid.
From the stair landing we built a circular retaining wall and a gate.
Back deck and French door
A French door with narrow glass panels on each side and a window above now opens to a new back deck. The deck is built the same way as the front stairs.
Other work
We also built a wire panel dog fence, replaced the garage door, and updated the downstairs bathroom.
What made it interesting
The kitchen post that had to go was holding up part of the roof. A structural engineer looked at the roof trusses, the triangle-shaped roof frames, and signed off on a design for new bracing. We drew the roof framing plans and added them to the permit. The trusses were braced to the engineer’s design, and then the post came out.
The front stairs grew during planning, so we redrew the plans and permitted them again before building.
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