Hammer & Hand

Loft Remodel Transforms Kitchen from Commercial to Cozy

During the colorful century-long history of this Portland building, the space at the heart of our loft kitchen remodel has served many purposes, most recently as a commercial kitchen for alternative school students. Today, it is reborn as a hip residential kitchen for a young urban family.

A couple years ago Hammer & Hand helped transform the second floor of this building into a comfortable, bright, modern loft. But for phasing reasons the kitchen was left in its “natural” state. Now it was the kitchen’s turn to shine, the final chapter of an exercise in recognizing and extracting raw potential from one of Portland’s odd, unconventional buildings.

(Learn more about the loft’s additional renovation phases here and here.) While the rest of the loft’s construction was underway, owners Traci and Wynn had been making due in the kitchen’s original, funky-commercial state. Isolated from the rest of the dwelling, partially torn up with open cabinets, and shrouded in a 30-year-old drop ceiling, this kitchen had humble beginnings.

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