66 WBM april 2014 The 17-year-old house built by Kate and her husband, Joel, is home to the Tomasellis and their two young-adult children. It is also sanctuary to four dogs, two cats, and a number of backyard bees and their hives. In the past, Kate has fostered dogs and laughs that raising chickens could be in her future. The kitchen has been at the heart of it all. “It’s been an evolutionary thing,” Kate says when speaking of her kitchen and the changing lifestyles it has catered to over the years. “When we first moved in, we had a 1-year-old and a 5-year-old. Now we have an 18-year-old and a 22-year-old. After you live in a house for a few years, you figure out more about how you are going to use it. How it works more practically.” A few years ago, Kate considered the home’s original floorplan and layout and decided they were not practical for the evolving family, so she looked at renovation options. The kitchen was front-and-center in her redesign plans. The original space had been functional and typi-cal of a lot of kitchens — with a cooking area, an island and a dining table in close proximity. “Here in the kitchen was where everyone wanted to hang out,” Kate says. “The kids wanted to do home-work in here while I was cooking dinner. Everyone wanted to watch TV in here. No one ever used our living room. I probably redecorated that room five times to make it more inviting. Basically, there was just a lot of wasted space.” After the redesign process and one and one-half years of reconfig-uring the floorplan, under-utilized space is no longer an issue. The living room became the master suite. What once served as a den is the formal dining room. And the kitchen, with a few necessary architectural and structural changes, is now part keeping room, too. The result is exactly what Kate home of distinction Experience a gallery where you are the artist. With all the latest appliances, brilliant lighting and the absolute best products for your kitchen and bath, our product experts make it easy to turn your vision into reality. FERGUSON.COM Wilmington 1925 Dawson Street (910) 343-0334 Shallotte 4640 East Coast Lane (910) 755-5060 ©2014 Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.
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