Modernizing a 1925 Cleveland Kitchen Without Losing the Soul
Older Cleveland homes have layouts that don't match how we live now — but the bones, trim, and proportions are why we love them. Here's how we modernized a Lakewood-area bungalow kitchen without flattening its character.
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Older Cleveland homes have layouts that don't match how we live now. Open concept wasn't a design philosophy in 1925 — it was a constraint of how we built houses before steel beams and modern HVAC made it possible to take walls down. So when a homeowner with a beautiful 1925 bungalow asks us to modernize, we don't reach first for the sledgehammer.
We start by sitting in the kitchen for fifteen minutes. Where does the morning light come from? Where do you put your coffee? Where do the kids do homework? The architecture has answers in it already — we just have to ask the questions in the right order.