The kids didn’t define this redesign.
When Mike and kristen Graham decided to move from their home in Locust Point to leafy northern Baltimore County, they left behind a lot of things they appreciated: a house with a contemporary interior, a bustling urban life, and easy access to Starbucks. But they had fallen absolutely in love with a house’s wooded lot in Baldwin, which promised a quiet haven for the busy couple—who both work in medical-device sales—and their two young children, now ages 5 and 9. A few things would have to go, though—like the standard-issue, traditional interiors and the ho-hum kitchen.
“It was a perfectly functional kitchen, but it wasn’t to our taste,” Kristen says. Built in 1996, the house featured buildergrade wood cabinets, rose-colored tile, and some questionable space planning.
“We host a lot of parties and the original spacing for people to sit—three barstools—didn’t leave space to gather or room for a family of four.”
This story is from the October 2016 edition of Baltimore magazine.
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