Before & After: Chunky Terrazzo Sings in a Music Industry Couple’s Midcentury Home

Hub of the House Studio remixes a Burbank dwelling’s dated kitchen and bathrooms with color, texture, and pitch-perfect storage.

Apr 1, 2022 - 20:17

Before & After: Chunky Terrazzo Sings in a Music Industry Couple’s Midcentury Home

Hub of the House Studio remixes a Burbank dwelling’s dated kitchen and bathrooms with color, texture, and pitch-perfect storage.

When Rob and Jamie Kinelski picked up the keys to this 1954 home in Burbank, California, they loved everything about it—except the dated and cramped kitchen and bathrooms. "The house has this warm feeling—it immediately felt like the ideal place to raise our family, but the bathrooms and the kitchen were lacking storage and counter space," Jamie says. "Mornings with small children and dogs are chaotic—we needed a functional kitchen and bathrooms to help us get a head start each day."

Before: Kitchen

Before: The kitchen in a 1950s Burbank, California, house featured a dated aesthetic with beige-on-beige tones.

Before: The kitchen also lacked the storage needed for a family of four and two dogs.

Rob and Jamie both work in the music industry—Jamie is a music publishing executive, and Rob is a Grammy Award–winning mix engineer who’s worked with Billie Eilish—and their toddler-age daughters Ruby and Pepper, and their dogs Penny and Chop Chop, were patient while their beloved midcentury home was readied for move-in. They had the interior painted, the floors stripped and stained, the den paneling replaced with drywall, a new HVAC system installed, and recessed lighting wired.