52 |ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017
THE PROJECT WAS, nevertheless, a makeover. “We built a new, de-
tached garage out back, and converted the original attached
garage into an amazing kitchen,” Chas says. The kitchen is in-
deed unique. The 1960s glazed bricks behind the stove, some
repainted to create an arresting backsplash for the stove, came
from landscape beds at the couple’s previous house. “We pur-
posely added a side porch to our kitchen, outside the fence. We
call it the friendship door since our friends never need come
to the front door.”What was once a crawl space was converted to a media
room for extra living space: the carpenter devised a way to gain
eight extra inches of headroom by removing a structural cross
beam and steel support pole and sistering the existing 2 x 6
floor joists. Thus, split-level living space was the big reward for
some basic reframing of the floor. An addition incorporating a
formerly open breezeway (now a gallery) and the old garage at
the back of the house includes a handsome set of wood stairs
and an iron tree-motif railing, leading down to a master suite