The kitchen with the wall taken out
Nineteen feet of load-bearing wall replaced with a flush-framed beam.
- Room
- Kitchens
- Work involved
- Completed
- 2025
- Investment
- The four ranges we work in
What we did here
Nineteen feet of wall between a kitchen and a family room, load-bearing, with a second-floor bathroom sitting on top of it. The answer was a flush-framed beam rather than a dropped one, which is more work and is the reason the ceiling reads as though the wall was never there.
A flush beam means the floor joists above are hung from it rather than resting on it, and every one of them had to be cut and hangered. It is a week of work that produces no visible result, which is exactly the kind of thing a fixed-price proposal has to have already accounted for.
The island runs parallel to the old wall line. That was a design decision, not an accident — it keeps the circulation the family already knew while removing the barrier.
Before and after
Before
After
A flush beam is a week of work that produces no visible result. That is the point of it.
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