This room was originally separated from the dining room by a wall. We removed that wall and moved another to make enough space to wrap the counter around under the East window and to open the kitchen up to the dining room towards the West, creating a corridor with large windows at either end and a skylight-well in the center of each room.

With the exception of the refrigerator, all of the appliances in this kitchen came secondhand from Craigslist. (Everything and the kitchen sink!)

The backsplash that expands into a custom mosaic over the cooktop consists of a pairing of one-of-a-kind saltillo-like tiles that were being discarded from a ceramic artist with everyday, machine-made brown quarry tile remnants.

The custom potrack was made with leftover walnut pieces from the window trim. Screwed into the studs above, it can support the weight of even the heaviest cast-iron pans.

Cabinet doors: local recycled ash, stained and sealed with Danish oil / Floor: concrete, hand-troweled / Counters: concrete, cast off-site to custom dimensions / Window trim: reclaimed urban walnut / Furniture and fixtures: salvaged, secondhand / Windows: new / Baseboards: recycled ash wood / Building materials: 50% salvaged

This room was originally separated from the kitchen by a wall. We removed that wall to open up the space and created a corridor with large windows at either end and a skylight-well in the center of each room.

The dining room floor is the kind of Vermont slate often found in the foyers of mid-century Midwestern homes – although typically there are some deep red or burgundy accent tiles included in the repeating pattern. Most of these came from a bin that a local remodeler had dropped off at the local salvage warehouse. We removed the red tiles from our installation and added tiles from two other sources – salvaged and secondhand – to get enough tiles to complete the pattern in our desired color scheme.

The thresholds leading to the adjoining kitchen and library were made from reclaimed urban walnut.

Floor: reclaimed, salvaged, secondhand / Sliding door: secondhand / Trim: original, salvaged / Furniture and fixtures: salvaged / Decor: salvaged / Building materials: 70% salvaged