Before & After: Clever Changes Bring Out the Charm in a 1920s Seattle Bungalow

SHED Architecture & Design fine-tunes the home’s floor plan—and then knits it all together with custom casework.

In a real estate market as hot as Seattle’s, it’s not uncommon for 100-year-old houses to get torn down in favor of building bigger and boxier. But the couple that bought this 1921 bungalow didn’t need more space—they just needed the layout to flow together better.

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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.

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