12 San Diego Uptown News | June 25-July 8, 2010


FEATURE Tour to show creative potential of kitchens, baths


By Christy Scannell SDUN Senior Editor


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At the North Park home, the guest bathroom (above) gained modern luxuries while maintaining the house’s Spanish flavor through colorful tiles. A decorative window centered on one wall allows light from the bathroom to shine into the shower. The powder room (left) was one of three bathrooms that were part of the 915-square-foot renova- tion open for the tour. (Courtesy NKBA)


wo Uptown homes will be featured on the second annual National Kitchen and Bath Asso-


ciation’s local tour, June 26. The San Diego NKBA chapter chose a house on Myrtle Way in North Park and a house on Falcon Street in Mission Hills for the tour. The other sites on the six-home tour are in Poway, Scripps Ranch and Coronado. “[This tour is] really to show the general public the differences of working with a professional kitchen and bath designer versus doing it on your own,” said Eliza- beth Leahy, vice president for technology and communications for the San Diego NKBA chapter. Tatiana Machado-Rosas of Jackson Design and Remodel- ing was the lead designer for the Myrtle Way property, a two-story Spanish Revival home built in the early 1900s. “We really wanted to stay true to the Spanish style, incorporat- ing updated amenities such as body sprays and fixtures, and a lot of detail with hand painted tiles and intricate mosaics,” she said.


The four-month project recon-


figured the home’s 915-square- foot first level, converting an awkward walk-through section of the house that had three bed- rooms, two baths and a laundry


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room area into a more cohesive space with three bedrooms, two full baths, a powder room, a wine cellar and a laundry room. The Falcon Street project was even larger in scope, said designer Michelle Strausbaugh of Reveal Studio.


“They nearly doubled the size – they basically created a new house,” she said.


The first floor of the house will be open for the tour, including an expanded living area, open kitchen, master bedroom and master bath.


Strausbaugh said taking down walls was key to the renovation’s success.


“These are very friendly people who entertain a lot,” she said about the homeowners. “So the kitchen needed to be opened up and more inviting to the rest of the house.”


The addition of a center island


provided more space for guests to gather, while custom cabinetry created more storage and display areas.


Although Strausbaugh said she enjoyed the clients’ interest in doing some of the remodel’s legwork themselves, such as perusing tile stores on weekends, she recommends anyone doing a home remodel consult a profes- sional designer for final decisions. “People really underestimate how long it will take and how


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