Need Architect and GC
Can anyone recommend an architect and general contractor to work with me on my kitchen/office remodel? I need someone who has a Victorian aesthetic and understands how to translate those ideas into reality while keeping in mind my funds are not limitless. My apartment is a parlor floor co-op. and there is an apartment below…
Can anyone recommend an architect and general contractor to work with me on my kitchen/office remodel? I need someone who has a Victorian aesthetic and understands how to translate those ideas into reality while keeping in mind my funds are not limitless. My apartment is a parlor floor co-op. and there is an apartment below me. I need everything filed properly and all work must be done to code. There will need to be some old world craftsmanship involved on the carpentry side. All existing details in the dining room will be maintained.
I do not plan to buy out of the box cabinetry. My plan is to take antique salvage pieces and create cabinets from those pieces. I also will be using either refurbished antique appliances or reproductions for the sink and stove.
Here’s the very rough scope of work:
Demolish my current galley style kitchen (which is located in the back of my parlor floor brownstone) and create a new one in the formal dinning room. The dinning room is adjacent to the existing kitchen.
Create an office in the room that was the galley kitchen.
New Kitchen:
Move gas and plumbing into dining room
Create dedicated lines for fridge, stove etc.
Change out existing radiator in the dinning room for a smaller and slimmer profile that is more energy efficient model.
Install appliances
Install cabinets
Paint, plaster
Refinish exiting wood floor
Carpentry
New Office:
Demolish existing kitchen
Remove existing lowered ceiling raise to full height and vault.
Install new French doors separating new office from new kitchen
Install a new exterior door from the new office to the outside deck. Existing opening will be made larger.
Install a gas fireplace in new office
Insulate exterior office wall
New floor
Paint, plaster
Carpentry
Good Post! Very informative, glad that you are going to continue writing things like this!
Regards.
http://www.cooperburns.co.uk
Ed Kopel Architects, PC
http://www.edkopel.com
I recommend Tim Keller. 646-248-8410. NYC/Hamptons architecht. Very professional.
If you haven’t already, be sure to confirm with the co-op that they will allow you to move your kitchen over a dry room in the unit below.
Many times the co-op insists on keeping wet rooms over wet rooms. Also consider where you will be running the new plumbing, and if you will need to go through your downstairs neighbor’s ceiling. They may expect some type of monetary compensation from you if your contractors are going to be working in their kitchen and dining room ceiling for an extended period of time.
You might want to check out the work of Gavin Young Maloney. I have never worked with him or any architect, but the renovations on his blog are very impressive in their respect for the original architecture. I think it’s gavinyoungmaloney.com
Give me a call to discuss. Note that a gas fire place will require a proper flue to the roof if there is not an existing one to reuse. I have plenty of references and work to show you.
Jock deBoer, AIA
718-354-7926
jdeboer@jockdeboer.com
Hi morningbelle1. I’d be happy to talk with you. I’ve done a few of these, including my own 1899 house, in which we had to remove lots of old mouldings and replace them with appropriately-sized new ones, and install new cabinets that look as if they’ve been in place for decades. I’d be happy to show you how it came out.
james@schaeferarchitect.com
(212) 233-1710