Adaptive Reuse: Turning Commercial Buildings Into Homes

The new frame created an airy great room with a central staircase as a focal point.
Make It Home:
• To create a more intimate atmosphere and mask the house’s enormous scale, paint walls rich colors such as warm brick red.
• Add sound insulation to floors to keep noise from traveling down to other levels of the house.
• Think twice about installing cold tile floors in the kitchen—winter months limit barefoot baking.