Southern Marin Great Room Transformation
Marin “split level” houses, especially those built in the late 60s and 70s, are a little odd. No front hall. No front closet. Cathedral ceilings. Beams. Long, narrow living rooms. Kitchen wedged in behind pass-through windows. Iron railings that have seen better days. Smallish bedrooms with high narrow windows that let in no light because they back up into a hill. No flat outdoor space. No attic. No basement. No storage space. Of course not.
You know the drill. And we know how to fix it.
This particular project –the owners wishe to be anonymous – was archetypal. The living room could have been repurposed as a bowling alley and the fireplace was scary (a botched job by previous owners). Both adults work at home. They wanted a very spacious home office, a redesigned fireplace with a huge TV in a niche above it, the battered wood floors refinished, the railings replaced, new roman shades, new Elfa closets in the boys’ shared room, a revised hall closet, new carpet throughout, new paint, new ceiling lighting. All in a two-week period over winter break, while the family was out of town.
Guess what? They got it. The pictures tell the story.
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