Alameda Tudor Home

A 1927 Tudor home in the historic city of Alameda needed a much needed TLC to transform into one of the beautiful homes on that street.

• Exterior- Restoring older houses costs more than replacing with new materials. We saved all the histroic windows by carefully fixing it, changed old aluminium windows to a clean energy effiecient windows. We scrubbed old paint, and a fresh exterior paint complimenting the neighboring houses. We added driveway automatic gate for secrutiy purposes. Landscape changed the look of the house.

• Living room- Our team spent more time in restoring broken historic fireplace, windows, flooring, floor molding and trims. We also smoothen the walls throughout the house, because textured walls are dated and paints and wallpaper is hard to install on these walls. Painting the fireplace evenly with the rest of the walls and restoring detailed embossed tiles on it to save the histroric features, changed the look of this living room. Also, we added recessed lights and beautiful burgandy ruffled wall sconces to elevate the look.

• Kitchen- A huge kitchen that included a breakfast nook and a bar in the middle of the room occupying a lot useful space was restructured and a new layout design to add a powder room (no bathroom existed on this floor for guests) and open up the entry way between dining and kithcen to enlarge and create a open space. We installed beautiful white and brass appliances complimenting the style of the house with more details like copper sink, brass faucets and marble countertops and backsplash to elevate the style of this house. The kitchen island is a restoration effort of a work bench that was in the basement of the house since 1927 fully dusted and lost the purpose. We refurbushed this piece of furniture by adding wheels and black cast iron hardwares. This piece of furniture looks beautiful as a kitchen island and now found a new purpose in life.

• Powder room- This beautiful powder room is clean, bright and airy. We mixed black metal and brass for faucets and hardware. The hexagonal botanical print tiles gives the slight drama this room needs. The blue vanity matches the tiles and a beautiful patterned mirror ties the vanity and the bathroom together. The wall sconces were carefully picked that has a beauitful pleated or ruffled shades that brings the charm.

• Dining room- From the before pictures you see the framed wallpaper design that the house had. We were inspired by the framed wallpaper idea but we took the design another level by finding a wallpaper that looks like tapestry. This wallpaper was enclosed in a a beautiful trims made to look like a frame. We also closed a china cabinet that was in the kitchen hallway and opened that space in the dining room to add a bar area. We added a wine cooler and plenty of cabinets with marble counter to set-up beautiful cocktails for guests.

  The dining room lighting are key elements,