Alex Molkentin

Field Notes

7 min

What a remodel should keep

The best remodels spend the budget where it shows and keep what already works.

The best remodels spend the budget where it shows and keep what already works.

Gloss and Chevron, Colorado Front Range

Every remodel starts with a demolition list, and the discipline is keeping it short. Good floors, sound framing, and windows in the right place are worth more than new versions of themselves. We put the budget into the surfaces you touch, the storage you use, and the appliances that earn it, and we leave the good bones alone. The result reads as a new room without paying for one.

Every remodel starts with a demolition list, and the discipline is keeping it short. Good floors, sound framing, and windows in the right place are worth more than new versions of themselves. We put the budget into the surfaces you touch, the storage you use, and the appliances that earn it, and we leave the good bones alone. The result reads as a new room without paying for one.

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Leave the good bones alone.

Leave the good bones alone.

A kitchen proves itself slowly, through school mornings, holidays, and every meal in between. We build for that.

Alex Molkentin

Alex Molkentin

Third-generation Colorado builder and founder of Shadowline Cabinetry in Lyons. He designs, specifies, and installs every project the studio takes on, and stands behind the work locally.

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