Many Craftsman-era homes in Pittsburgh have a single, wide living room that extends across the front of the house, with a dining room and corner kitchen across the back of the house. This home is organized along those lines, although a previous kitchen remodel opened the corner kitchen to the dining room. With a cramped kitchen layout, awkward refrigerator placement, and angled floor transition, the results were less than satisfying.

Kitchen and eating area after

Back porch detail

Kitchen moves into former dining

Kitchen and dining before

Therefore, we decided to take full advantage of the back of the house –  by creating a single room. We accomplished this by relocating the heart of the kitchen to the underused dining room. The new homeowners gained a large eat-in kitchen with a fuller connection to the back yard.