{"id":2224,"date":"2022-01-31T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2022-02-15T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:59:09","slug":"designer-breathes-fresh-air-into-1990s-gaithersburg-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montgomerymag.com\/designer-breathes-fresh-air-into-1990s-gaithersburg-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer breathes fresh air into 1990s Gaithersburg home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the remodeled kitchen, toffee-colored maple-wood cabinets with a rich mocha glaze line the perimeter. Designed by Sharifa Wellman
Photos by Real Tour, Inc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Susan C. Ingram<\/p>\n

The \u201cbefore\u201d pictures taken for designer Sharifa Wellman\u2019s latest design\/build project might beg the question, \u201cWhat\u2019s the problem?\u201d The kitchen and dining area were outfitted in an all-white, modified French Country look. And while white-on-white can certainly spell \u201ctimeless\u201d for home d\u00e9cor, Wellman says in this case the 1990s two-story colonial needed to be opened up, aired out and updated.<\/p>\n

Sharifa and architect husband, Duane, of Wellman General Contracting and Home Improvements, LLC, in Gaithersburg, both have roots that run deep in the building and making spaces trades. His family were stone masons from Bermuda. And Sharifa, from New York, hails from a family in the demolition business.<\/p>\n

They started their design\/build business in 2007, followed by opening their Gaithersburg showroom in 2009. And although much of their work is bathroom, kitchen and basement remodeling, over the years Wellman says their project offerings expanded.
\n\u201cWe started doing windows and doors, wood flooring, drywall and painting,\u201d Wellman says. \u201cJust about everything: lighting, plumbing, electrical. We do it all at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photos for the 1990s colonial project reveal a complete makeover, style- and color-wise, for the kitchen, as well as knocking walls down to open up the \u201ccompartmentalized spaces\u201d on the first-floor level.<\/p>\n

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Before remodel photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Everything in the formerly all-white kitchen, except for a cooktop and double stainless fridge, was replaced. Infusions of natural stone and wood, along with flooring combining complimentary colors, afford the space a warmer, less stark, feeling.<\/p>\n

Toffee-colored maple-wood cabinets with a rich mocha glaze line the perimeter. With glass fronts and interior lighting, they reach straight to the ceiling, after removing existing soffits, allowing for more usable cabinet space.<\/p>\n

The once-ubiquitous granite countertops, in such demand in the \u201990s, are replaced with quartz, \u201cfor functionality and design,\u201d Wellman says, adding that \u201cpracticality is a main focus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to give the space a more open concept, and to modernize it, because it\u2019s a little bit of an older home,\u201d Wellman says. \u201cI wanted to add some touches to bring it up into the current times, with grays, blues and taupes. And \u2018greige\u2019 is a nice new color: gray\/beige.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t in the dictionary,\u201d she says and laughs, \u201cbut it is now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The kitchen flooring was originally wood, which has given way to a more functional luxury vinyl.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe homeowner does a lot of cooking. So, the luxury vinyl is more practical because you don\u2019t damage it. It\u2019s waterproof,\u201d Wellman says. \u201cAnd it looks like tile, but it\u2019s still warm.\u201d
\nWellman chose the flooring color as a unifying element in the overall design.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe flooring is a mixture of colors and tones,\u201d she says. \u201cYou get your gray, your beige, your browns. That\u2019s one of the marrying pieces that brings the whole look together, because it\u2019s got some of the color of the adjacent wood flooring. Some of the colors of everything are represented in that flooring, even a bluish-gray, which is the color of the new kitchen island.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, removing a wall between the kitchen and family room and reconfiguring some doorways opened up the space, once broken into many, into a more contiguous, flowing design. And incorporating the color palette into elements in each room brings the whole redesign together, including in the first-floor powder room, where shades of caramel and blue are picked up in the stylish, new vessel sink.<\/p>\n

For Wellman, beyond her own satisfaction with her work after a successful design\/build, she said the most satisfying part \u201cis giving people that final product, from where you started to where you finished, and their being really happy about it,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the other nice thing is just meeting people, from all around the world, and getting to know their story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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