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Renovated kitchen looking toward
the added bay.
Cooking (with) Light
Cooking (with) Light

Eric Colbert, AIA, Designs a New Kitchen

for His Own 1940s House by Ronald O’Rourke

Doctors might make the worst patients, and a man who serves as
his own lawyer might have a fool for a client. Architects, however,
can be quite successful in designing their own living spaces.
A good example is the new kitchen that Eric Colbert, AIA,
designed for his house on Fessenden Street, NW, in Washington’s
Friendship Heights area. The project reworked 120 square feet of
existing interior space and added 80 square feet of new space, creating
a sleek new cooking and eating area that brings more light into the
rear of the residence and improves the house’s connection to its
back yard.

Project: Fessenden Street Kitchen Renovation and Addition,
Washington, DC
Architect: Eric Colbert, AIA
Structural Engineers: Structura
Contractor: Four Brothers, LLC The kitchen before renovation.

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