A Kitchen Shines Again Years After a Reno ‘Fail’
Photo by Helen Norman
Michael and Gretchen Robbins consider themselves lucky. As a management consultant and a health and wellness coach with three kids, they moved into a nearly century-old home that they think provides the best of suburban-meets-city living.
“We can walk to the metro, but we also have a nicely sized yard, a detached garage, and big leafy trees,” Gretchen says. “Having previously lived in the very urban areas of New York City and Tokyo, we didn’t want to lose the ability to walk places, but we wanted a real house.”