Houzz at a Glance
Who lives here: This is a second home for TV producer-director Chris Fisher; his wife, Blair; and their 4-month-old daughter
Location: French Quarter, New Orleans
Size: About 1,300 square feet (121 square meters); 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Year built: 1820s
Logan LeBlanc and Killen aimed to highlight the building’s original architecture and add back any lost elements. Here in the kitchen, the original 3-inch-wide antique heart pine floors were salvaged by filling holes and working with the floor’s history instead of replacing it.
When the house was constructed, residential electricity use was still far on the horizon. The brick-core walls and the open ceiling structure were limiting in terms of adding new plumbing lines and internal electrical conduit.
Because the project was about stripping away and highlighting the bones of the house versus adding, they didn’t want to build new wall components merely to hide all of the mechanicals. So the design team made use of the few outlets already in the kitchen.
Additional wall-mounted electrical conduit runs along the wall behind the stove. A ceiling fan with integral lighting was installed in place of the existing overhead light fixture. To honor the homeowner’s quest for simplicity and genuineness, the designers also hung pendant lights from a kitchen shelf rather than hardwiring them.
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