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County stone and cedar, the kitchen was a utilitarian space where folks spent as little time as possible. So when John and Kelli Yeager moved into John’s ancestral home in Phoenixville, they were met with a kitchen stuck in a dark, cramped time warp. “I’ve always had small kitchens with not enough storage and very little room for guests to hang out in,” says Kelli. “One of my biggest pet peeves was lack of counter space.”
That explains the welcoming, expansive centerpiece of a renovation project that offers comfort and function to the young couple and their three small children.
Chester Springs-based architect Joshua Sukenick drew up plans to take the home’s
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interior down to its stone walls, opening and reconfiguring the floorplan to suit a modern family. To realize their vision of a farmhouse kitchen with an industrial edge, the Yeagers turned to interior designer Liz Walton. She came up with a plan that would seamlessly join the original 150-year-old home with
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a massive great room on the first floor and children’s bedrooms on the second. “We kept the exposed exterior stone when we created the home’s rear addition,” Walton says. “The exposed duct work for the stove’s ventilation hood is also visible.”
Before Walton started planning, she sat down with the Yeagers to determine their needs. “We interview our clients before
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