March 28, 2024

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Cherokee Gardens ranch on Tour of Reworked Properties

Julie Blankenbaker and her partner Ralph ended up geared up to renovate their Cherokee Gardens ranch house as shortly as they purchased the property.

“When we acquired this location, we understood we wanted to (remodel),” Julie told the Courier Journal. “It was (owned by) a 90-anything-12 months-outdated lady — and it seemed like a 90-a thing-calendar year-old woman’s dwelling.”

She and Ralph weren’t keen on the interior structure or the format of the household.

“When we bought it, we knew we wished to make it ours, and make it far more useful and also obtainable,” Julie claimed, introducing that attending The Tour of Transformed Houses a couple several years in the past is how she and Ralph bought motivated to ultimately start the method. “We went on the tour for the reason that … if we are likely to rework, we have to have to see what this is all about due to the fact we have been clueless. We went two yrs in a row, (and) by the 2nd 12 months we might decided (to transfer forward).”

An outdoor dining area at the Blankenbaker home. July 12, 2021

Open notion dwelling

The Blankenbakers met Stonehenge Construction at the tour and enlisted their assist in making a revamped room — a person of the primary aims of the rework to develop a kitchen area that would provide greater functionality.

“I have a few young children, (and) six grandkids (who are living) in the region,” Julie said. “And I have bought (my) siblings and their households, so we could have 20 men and women here (at once).”

As is widespread with most loved ones gatherings, each one particular person would congregate in the kitchen — this meant Julie generally couldn’t get to the fridge with no possessing to question three individuals to shift.

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The kitchen in the Blankenbaker home. July 12, 2021

“It just was not functional,” she explained, introducing that more compact, separate groups of family members would have to spread out in pockets all through the dwelling. There was no move, and the setup discouraged interaction.  

Tommy McKechnie and the rest of the Stonehenge Development group removed a load-bearing wall, opening the kitchen area up to the rest of the key amount. They also developed personalized cabinetry as well as an 8-foot island and put in new appliances. The current open floorplan enables guests to seamlessly stroll from the spouse and children room to the kitchen area, into the dining room, and back yet again.