This is a renovation of a traditional 1950s house on the Peninsula. It had been added onto in bits and pieces, and had a broken up layout from families trying to make it their own over the years. There were many individual rooms; the living room in the front was cut off from the kitchen, which was cut off from the dining room. There was no sense of family togetherness space. We took out the walls and created space with natural light and certain key structural changes. We re-worked the entry with a reconfigured coat closet and skylight that defines the space. By taking out the wall between the kitchen and the dining room, we removed a hallway and now the kitchen faces the open connected living spaces.