My Houzz: A Kitchen Update With Indoor-Outdoor Beauty (24 photos)

The kitchen remodel cost more than the house, says Schwalbach, but the room has become one of the couple’s favorite spaces. The concrete wall required for seismic loads, seen to the side of the wall, was intended to be covered with an alternate finish but instead was left exposed to save on costs. It’s now an element that Mempa and Schwalbach realize fits in well with the rest of the kitchen palette. “The contrast and harmony between the old and the new is wonderful,”Schwalbach says.

The original kitchen remodel plans stayed within the existing footprint of the house and maintained the lower ceiling height that carried over from the living room. After envisioning the space with transparency to the garden, Mempa and Schwalbach opted to expand upward and outward. “I like the intimacy of the low ceilings in the living room and then the very high ceilings of the new kitchen,” says Schwalbach.

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