This intense condo project required the renovation of the kitchen and four bathrooms. The space was complicated by various ceiling heights, so several walls were removed, and soffits were raised. Designer Chris Druschel of S&W Kitchens said he and his team had to make several decisions on the fly because of all the restrictions.
With the amount of noise the removal of the flooring would cause, affecting the homeowners below, the team was tasked with a speedy timeline of five days.
“Because the elevator is shared with tenants, we were only allowed to bring one garbage can of debris down each ride,” said the designer. “Once at bottom, it was a 1,000-ft. trek to the closest truck of ours to unload/dump.”
These quartz countertops are 3cm laminated to make 6cm thick with ogee and bullnose edge.
The usual placement of the recessed shower niche had to be relocated because of an unmovable cast-iron plumbing stack. The designer moved it to stretch around the corner instead, which turned out to be a clever solution the client loved.
To accommodate the relocation of the tub in the master bath and avoid drilling into the concrete, Druschel designed a platform to be placed under it for the plumbing.
In the guest bath, the shower niche wraps around the side instead of taking up its standard placement because of an unforeseen plumbing stack.