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Before the Collamores moved in, the dining room walls were adorned with a bright, busy floral wallpaper, and the wood floors needed some love. The couple painted the walls and refinished the floors while leaving some of the home’s original charm such as the trim and crown molding.
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Before the Collamores moved in, the dining room walls were adorned with a bright, busy floral wallpaper, and the wood floors needed some love. The couple painted the walls and refinished the floors while leaving some of the home’s original charm such as the trim and crown molding.
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After the brick archway was discovered during the kitchen demolition, the Collamores opted to maintain the size of the kitchen and expose the archway, leaving a major part of the original home untouched and adding a rustic feel to the space.
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After the brick archway was discovered during the kitchen demolition, the Collamores opted to maintain the size of the kitchen and expose the archway, leaving a major part of the original home untouched and adding a rustic feel to the space.
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The kitchen was the Collamores’ first big project; their aim was to expand it until they found a beautiful brick archway in the wall, which is now exposed and separates the living room from the kitchen. Floral wallpaper seemed to be a central theme prior to the Collamores’ move. Justin installed granite countertops, replaced the cabinets and moved the sink. By rearranging the refrigerator, replacing the inward-swinging shutters and modifying the window between the kitchen and living room, the Collamores opened up the space and gave it a larger feel.
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The kitchen was the Collamores’ first big project; their aim was to expand it until they found a beautiful brick archway in the wall, which is now exposed and separates the living room from the kitchen. Floral wallpaper seemed to be a central theme prior to the Collamores’ move. Justin installed granite countertops, replaced the cabinets and moved the sink. By rearranging the refrigerator, replacing the inward-swinging shutters and modifying the window between the kitchen and living room, the Collamores opened up the space and gave it a larger feel.
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Justin let the room breathe again after tearing out the paneling in the living room to expose a beautiful fireplace and replacing the shag carpet with a light wood floor.
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Justin let the room breathe again after tearing out the paneling in the living room to expose a beautiful fireplace and replacing the shag carpet with a light wood floor.
During the past 10 years, Justin Collamore and his wife, Allison, have been renovating and living in the brick home at 1788 Guilford Rd. From exposing a fireplace hidden behind paneling to tearing out shag carpet to finding a brick archway in the kitchen in the thick of demolition, the Collamores have tackled it – all to bring the home out of the 1960s and into the present.
Before the Collamores moved in, the Upper Arlington house’s last major facelift was in 1961. So Justin and Allison, co-owners of Collamore Built Residential Design and Construction in Upper Arlington, knew the home needed a ton of work.
“My wife and I both had a vision for what it could be clearly,” says Justin. “It’s a beautiful older home, so I don’t know that there was any certain inspiration to it, but when we went through it, we tried to keep the integrity of the house; any details or trim that were left while still updating it.”
Though the Collamores are still renovating the master bath and plan to build a new garage, the interior of the home is approaching completion after a long 10 years, as Justin opted to put his own home on hold while he worked on his clients’ with Collamore Built.
“Everybody else gets to go first,” says Justin. “But my wife finally said after 10 years, ‘I’d like to have a master bathroom.’”
There are some upsides to being the boss of a design and construction company. Justin gets first pickings of the features torn out of Collamore Built clients’ homes.
“One of the recent things we did is we salvaged a fireplace mantle out of a project that we were doing for someone else, and we were going to throw it out,” says Justin. “Our fireplace had been sealed behind paneling, so we opened that up and put the mantle in there.”
