Downtown Dartmouth2025
Full Kitchen Reconstruction
A cramped galley kitchen rebuilt as a single open room with a 10-foot stone island, full-height cabinetry and a rebuilt structural header.
- Duration
- 7 weeks
North End · 2025
Double-Height Rear Addition
A dark, closed-in clapboard century home opened up with a double-height rear addition, a new kitchen and a 20-foot run of glazing to the back yard.
- Location
- North End, Halifax Peninsula
- Service
- Additions
- Completed
- 2025
- Time on site
- 16 weeks
The brief
A 1920s clapboard cottage with a dark, disconnected kitchen at the back and a laundry room that had been added at some point without a permit. The owners wanted one open living space that actually connected to the garden, and they wanted to stay in the house while it happened.
The challenge
Once we opened the floor we found the original floor joists had rot through about thirteen feet of their length, and the unpermitted laundry slab was sitting directly over the sewer junction. Both were priced as a written variation and approved within a day, which is the only reason the schedule did not slip.
What we did
Demolished the rear third of the cottage, poured new footings clear of the sewer, and framed a double-height addition with a steel ridge beam so the ceiling could open up without a visible post. The tie-in was detailed so the new ceiling meets the original at a deliberate shadow line rather than a patched joint.
The result
Sixteen weeks on site, finished on the contract date. The family stayed in the front of the house for the whole build with a working kitchen for all but nine days.
Before and after
Same room, same angle
Drag the handle to compare. Both frames are shot from the same position with no staging swapped in.
Gallery
On site and finished
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- Duration
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- Duration
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Tell us what you want to build
A site visit, a proper measure and a fixed-price quote, at no cost and with no obligation. If your budget will not stretch to your brief, we will tell you at the first meeting.
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