M STREETS - DALLAS, TX
Morningside
This home, turned 100 in 2025, is a part of a well-known conservation district in the city – and it was our job to remodel the heart of that home. The kitchen, breakfast room, and informal sitting room were renovated to give ode to the original charm of the neighborhood, while integrating modern design decisions to bring the functionality into this century. Multiple challenges – including large amounts of lead that needed to be addressed – allowed the opportunity for creative decisions while keeping the goals of these homeowners top of mind.
We demoed the opening between the kitchen and sitting room, and enlarged as much as possible to the bottom step of the existing stairwell, which allowed us to create a small island design in this space, and triple traffic flow between the rooms. The breakfast table is a high usage area for both eating and working, so we designed a custom banquette to match the new kitchen cabinets, and provide storage, and to push the table closer to the wall and increase walk paths to the back of the house.
Inset, shaker, exposed hinges were all three requirements for the cabinetry from the homeowner and were what we specified. We went above and beyond to gang cabinets together to eliminate double stiles, and increase storage opportunity. Wallpaper was removed, and a fresh coat of paint covers the breakfast, kitchen, sitting room and stairwell. And the breakfast room hutch was encapsulated and painted to match the new kitchen cabinet color. Sprinkled with art made by the owner, the newly renovated space incorporated not only design giving ode to the original craftsmanship of the house, but also to their own aesthetics.
