Living
By Brandon Klein
Heart of the Home Family makes space for cooks in the kitchen at Marble Cliff home
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ore than two years ago, Mike and Debra Hoelzle agreed they weren’t satisfied with their Grandview home. To make matters more challenging, renovating the old home was out of the question. The solution, then, was to move, and they were in luck: they found another home in the area that better fit their lifestyle. Namely, the new home had the bigger kitchen they craved, and it offered an excellent foundation to build upon. “The kitchen was almost a blank canvas to start,” Mike says. They wasted no time getting started. In fact, the Hoelzles began to renovate before even moving in. Contracting with Haus Studio Designs, the couple appreciated a number
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of ideas the company proposed for improvements to the home. Flooring on the ground level was replaced and some minor work was done in the bathroom, but the bulk of the project focused on the kitchen. Debra says the couple wanted a kitchen layout that allowed for at least two people to move around and handle tasks like cooking and cleaning without bumping into each other. “We wanted to be able to cook and clean dishes in the kitchen while having our kids in the same room,” Mike says. Central to the expansion, Haus removed a load-bearing wall that separated the old dining room from a galley kitchen to merge the two spaces. The July/August 2022 • www.trivillagemagazine.com
Photos courtesy of Haus Studio Designs
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