that the clients didn’t want to change the exterior much at all – which he was happy with, as he too remembers first driving up to the site and being amazed. He was less amazed with the interior, however, and was happy to be given “pretty much free reign.” “We wanted to keep the kitchen pretty much in the same area, but that was about it,” he says. “There were a few rooms that made us scratch our heads and wonder ‘Why does it look like that?’ We would walk through the house and say ‘I can’t believe people lived here.’” “It was always a beautiful house, but I think now it’s a beautiful house and I think anyone would want to live there,” he adds. “The transformation was really incredible,” Kenny says. “The before and after pictures are very different, and I think the after pictures are spectacular.” Duane and Kenny break down some of the differences: “Before, when you first walked through the front door, you were confronted by this horrible water feature,” Duane says. “We transformed it into a modern water feature area. It now has a really nice simple aesthetic coming in, and then that simplicity was maintained throughout the design of the rest of the house.” “We took two rooms and turned them into one,” he adds. “We removed a few walls. We made the travel patterns through the house a lot better.” “One of the key things we did is we took all the furnaces that were in mechanical rooms and we put them into the crawlspace,” Kenny says. “That opened up some additional areas. That allowed us to add a butler’s pantry to the kitchen, THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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