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"All the light was in there," Nicole Sinclair said of the room, which stretched the length of one side of the house. Lovely, but it was part of the problem. Its long wall blocked light, darkening the rest of the house. "The original configuration of our house was like most houses built in the 1920s -- lots of small rooms that were difficult to utilize," she said. Then there was the small kitchen, and its location at the back-center of the seven-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom house. The floor plan impeded access, and it was impractical for entertaining guests. So about a year later, they began to work with Bob Barnett of CBH Architects in South Orange. They explored redesign options and selected new features in what would eventually be a full gut renovation of their home's first floor. The project would involve knocking down walls to open up the space, expanding the kitchen, and relocating the family room so the spaces would merge in a mostly open area at the back of the house.
About 25 square feet would be added to the back of the 3,200-square-foot home for an improved mudroom and powder room. And out back, the deck would be enlarged. While the formal dining room and foyer at the front of the house would remain much the same, the new floor plan would also result in a larger, brighter living room with removal of the long sun room wall. But gutting an old house always has its challenges. The house has been renovated previously, and the Sinclairs were told that the project had included a wiring update. "Once we opened it up, we did find knob and tube wiring," Barnett the architect said. "It's like finding a dead body in the closet." The wiring, commonly used in the early 20th century is sort of like having live wire running through a house, he said. "You have to find it and replace it." It became a necessary mission that added both time and expense to a project where plumbing and air ducts also had to be relocated. There was a happier find in the former den.
What had looked like a mantel turned out to be a plaster coverup. It hid a wide brick chimney. The initial plan to remove it was cost prohibitive, so the couple decided to work around it. "When we went back to Bob, he made it work in our layout," Nicole said. "It ended up being probably the most fascinating feature of our home." The sizable brick expanse is now a focal point that provides a degree of separation between the new kitchen and family room. With new glass doors that lead out to the expanded deck, the area is now ideal for indoor-outdoor entertaining with a coffee service area and wet bar. "We gained a family room when we took away all of those little rooms," Nicole said. And when the sun room wall was removed, the kitchen could also be enlarged, and they preserved a pair of the French doors to reuse for their pantry. The other set replaced their basement door. The couple also reused most of their home's original windows. The renovation was the couple's second, having previously updated a house in Summit.
The experience was part of what helped their project go smoothly, Nicole Sinclair said. "We learned so much from that first project and how to do things completely differently," she said. Their architect also pushed them to make as many decisions as possible as early as possible, she said. I cannot say that enough." The entire first floor of their 1922 home Bob Barnett of CBH Architects in South Orange and Martin Murphy of Murphy General Contractors in South Orange. "Bob was highly recommended to us from a friend of ours, and after meeting multiple architects we decided that his style and manner were perfect for our project," Nicole said The project was done in two phases. The powder room and mudroom addition and the deck extension were completed in five weeks starting July 2014. The interior renovation began in January 2015 and was completed by May.They also worked with Real Antique Wood in Irvington to custom make shelves and a countertop from recycled barn wood.
And they invested in hand-crafted custom cabinets for the living room, mudroom, wet bar and family room entertainment center. "They were designed and built right before our eyes in the "cabinet workshop" - our dining room," Paul Sinclair said. "We saved money by reusing original doors and windows to keep the charm and integrity of our home," Paul Sinclair said. "I did a lot of looking through pictures, and I blended lots of pieces together to create our own look," Nicole Sinclair said. "It was sort of our own vision, mostly mine. I had a vision in my head of what I wanted everything to look like. I worked with our foreman to bring it about." "We are so pleased overall with the outcome of our project, but if we had to choose our favorite piece of the renovation, it would absolutely be the kitchen," Paul Sinclair said. "When we first met with Bob, the plan was to extend the original kitchen to the other side of the house, but he opened our minds to moving it completely, basically re-laying out the entire footprint of the first floor.