AFTER PHOTOS

We, at Rochman Design Build, are so grateful for the opportunity to work on multiple projects for so many of our clients, often over the course of multiple years. But sometimes we get especially lucky and move from one project right into the 2nd , as is the case with this project. Moving from the garage and study addition on this Ann Arbor Hills colonial to the main house, this whole house remodel will include doing a whole new kitchen, mudroom, powder room and butler’s pantry on the first floor. On the 2nd floor the Rochman Design Build team will change one entire side of the house into a large and beautiful study / office, redo the bathroom, and reconfigure the master bathroom including additional work in the remainder of the master suite. Please visit this current work ‘blog’ to see the transformation.

June 2, 2021

Zack is demolishing 3 layers of ceiling in the kitchen.

Demolition is done and the area is swept.

And here is where we turn the living room into a carpenter’s work shop :-)

June 9, 2021

The demolished kitchen, and a view of exercise area room from the kitchen.

We’ve built a temporary wall as a support structure for when the beam is removed.
The beam over this kitchen / breakfast room opening will be repaired by a much longer steel one, in order to lose the post in the middle of everything.

The breakfast room. The hole in the floor is access to the crawlspace to put additional concrete footing to support future beam.

June 17, 2021

Look Ma, no stairs!
Zack removed the Butler stair to 2nd floor in order to create headroom for the basement stairs.

John get the Carpenter’s Award for the smallest wall ever framed :-)
(It’s actually a point load that we needed and John made, but the award is much more fun)

and Mike is building out a steel beam to be able to hang a wood beam off of it.

June 23, 2021

Lots of demolition this week…

June 30, 2021

The small shed roof bedroom is in the process of being converted into a full wall height.

It will be tied into the 2 adjoining rooms to create one expansive home office.

July 15, 2021

The new office space is getting Tyveked (newly made up word? but sounds right) - aka closing it up.

The living room is having all its windows replaced.

July 22, 2021

Yep, sometimes we have to fix other remodelers problems; here we're straightening out the floor framing.
The kitchen is ready for wiring.

The new home office on the 2nd floor is getting a new French Door (exterior and interior views).
The door will have a new custom welded Juliette Balcony.

July 29, 2021

Lots going on this week too…

On the 1st floor, the kitchen is opened up with new steel and LVL beams.
And this will be the new powder room off the kitchen.

New electrical and ductwork being run for the 2nd floor study.
And while we’re at it, we might as well repair the existing sub floor in the master bath.

Although the photo doesn’t do it justice, these are the French doors off the study that will lead to the Juliette balcony mentioned before. When not being worked on, this future study occasionally doubles as a bowling alley :-)

Outside, a new retaining wall is being installed by the driveway. The perpendicular 6x6 is called a deadman (probably because it looks like something out of Hangman?) and is there to help the wall stability.