This family with two teenage boys and a dog needed more casual main floor living space and a secondary entrance to their home.

To fulfill their needs, the designer came up with a layout that involved gutting the existing kitchen and constructing a new addition to accommodate a spacious eating area, powder room, sun-drenched side entrance and large cedar deck in the rear of the house.

Featured, is a large built-in desk constructed around an existing rear window of the house, thereby still allowing natural light into the existing study. The new limestone flooring is heated with hot water radiant tubes installed below the floor tiles, a comfort the homeowners just love.