Historic Kitchen Gets Update
Originally built in 1890, this downtown Columbus home’s kitchen was a diamond in the rough before R Lucas Construction and Design President Ron Lucas worked his remodeling magic. At some point in the past 20 years, the historic home’s kitchen had been updated; however, the renovation was poorly done. “We began this project by taking the entire space down to the studs. That’s when we found all of the fun,” Ron laughs. “There must have been a fire or perhaps a chimney was open into the attic space above the kitchen, because when we dropped the sheetrock ceilings we had a black dusty mess. The walls were not straight and there was zero insulation.” Before transforming the look and feel of the kitchen, the R Lucas Construction and Design team re-framed walls and spray foamed both the walls and the attic space to make sure the new kitchen would heat and cool better once the job was complete. “The new space was designed to give the young family that lives here room to be together while in the heart of their home.”