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A Fresh Take On Everyday Living

Walnut Creek, California

SCOPE: The kitchen kept its footprint. Nearly everything inside it is new. Carey Bros. Design & Build Remodeling worked within the kitchen’s existing layout, fitting new cabinetry, appliances, countertops, backsplash, lighting, and flooring into the space. The team then turned to the primary bath, which gained new cabinetry, fixtures, flooring, lighting, and a far more comfortable shower.

This remodel included new kitchen and bath cabinetry, doors, and hardware; a new appliance package; Meganté solid-surface countertops and backsplashes in both rooms; a molded solid-surface shower pan and walls with a built-in bench and shampoo niche; Kohler and Moen plumbing fixtures; LED and undercabinet lighting; a humidity-sensing exhaust fan; HomeLegend hybrid engineered wood flooring; new drywall, baseboards, plumbing, and electrical; and Sherwin-Williams paint. The trickiest part of any partial remodel is the seam where new meets old, so the new flooring was woven into the existing floor and chosen to match it. The goal: nothing underfoot announces where the remodel ends.

FEATURES: One material does a lot of quiet work here. Meganté solid surface runs across the kitchen counters and full backsplash, then shows up again on the bath countertop and shower walls, so the two rooms feel related without looking identical. In the shower, a molded pan meets matching walls, which means no grout lines to scrub. A built-in bench gives you somewhere to sit, a handshower reaches where a fixed head can’t, and the humidity-sensing fan switches on when steam builds, no reminder required. In the kitchen, a Bosch cooktop pairs with a Zephyr hood, a Maytag wall oven and GE microwave are built in, and a GE refrigerator and dishwasher round out the package. Undercabinet LEDs run on their own control, so the counters can be bright for chopping while the rest of the room stays soft. Sherwin-Williams Alabaster warms the walls in the kitchen nook and primary bath. Nothing here shouts. It just works, every single morning.

Fixtures & Finish:

  • New kitchen and bath cabinetry, doors, and hardware
  • Meganté solid-surface kitchen countertops and full backsplash
  • Meganté solid-surface bath countertop and backsplash
  • Molded solid-surface shower pan with matching wall surfaces
  • Built-in shower bench and shampoo niche
  • Handshower with Kohler and Moen plumbing fixtures
  • Framed bypass glass shower enclosure by Lafayette Glass
  • Elkay kitchen sink
  • GE refrigerator and microwave with trim kit
  • Bosch cooktop with Zephyr range hood
  • Maytag wall oven and dishwasher
  • High-efficiency LED lighting with separately controlled undercabinet lights
  • Humidity-sensing bathroom exhaust fan
  • Decorative bathroom mirrors
  • HomeLegend hybrid engineered wood flooring, woven into and matched to existing floors
  • Sherwin-Williams Alabaster in the kitchen nook and primary bath
  • New drywall, baseboards, plumbing, electrical, and finish work

Designer: Beth Soto

Lead Craftsman: Jason Wilson, CLC

Wide view of the cooktop wall, stainless hood centered on the full-height solid surface splash, sink counter wrapping to the left.
Blind corner base cabinet open to a half-moon pivot shelf stacked with pots and lids, beside a bank of drawers and the stainless wall oven.
Tall pantry cabinet with four rollout shelves extended, built-in microwave above and a lit counter niche alongside.
Vanity and shower side by side, triple sconce above the mirror and the framed bypass glass shower door at right.
Close view of the chrome multi-function handshower and slide bar mounted on the seamless shower wall, grab bar at right.
The shower head-on: framed bypass glass door with chrome towel bars, seamless marble-look walls and a solid white molded pan.
Corner counter run beside the French-door refrigerator, warm LED strips washing the Mt. Carrara solid surface splash beneath the uppers.
The cooking wall: Bosch electric cooktop under a stainless Vent-A-Hood, with the Maytag wall oven and built-in microwave stacked in the tower at right.
Deep drawer below the cooktop pulled out to reveal stacked pots and a strainer in a maple drawer box.
The sink wall: Elkay undermount double-basin sink with a Kohler pull-down faucet, framed by the pass-through opening to the dining room.
Tall pantry cabinet with four rollout shelves extended, built-in microwave above and a lit counter niche alongside.
The primary bath from the doorway, double vanity and framed mirror at right, linen cabinet and toilet at left.
One vanity sink with a chrome Moen Align faucet on the solid surface counter, chrome-framed mirror above and towel bars at left.
Moen chrome showerhead and pressure-balance valve trim, a white towel hung between them and grab bars on both sides.

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