Musical family’s household rework displays their many pursuits

When John and Rebecca Schultz moved into their Cedar Rapids household a few many years ago, they cherished the location.

“We can see the Cedar River from the house,” Rebecca claimed.

The dwelling, created in 2006, bundled a decrease-level rec space and an unfinished store location that available a large amount of probable.

“When we bought the household, we observed the basement square footage as an possibility,” she claimed. “It just took some time to comprehensive our vision.”

For various months, the pair thought about doable updates, and John began to put pen to paper.

“I commenced by drawing out designs and then drafted them up,” he stated.

The couple labored with Sattler Households & Transforming to choose down a wall to open up up the house, which now consists of a built-in bar region and a match place with a pool desk, great for entertaining family and mates.

The rework showcases several of the family’s passions, most notably the musical instruments that hold on a feature wall.

The Schultzes possess and run Schultz Strings, a Marion store that rents and sells stringed instruments.

“I also instruct — element of our company is training through different university districts and plans in the spot,” John stated.

Married for 13 many years, the few have two young children — Charlotte, 11, and Graham, 7.

“Music is a massive component of our spouse and children,” John mentioned. “Charlotte performs violin, Graham plays cello and (the little ones) both equally engage in piano. We make a great deal of new music as a relatives.”

The transformed lessen amount offers a lot of place to follow and participate in songs alongside one another.

John has merged his fascination in music and woodworking and has created quite a few picket stringed instruments in the past. So for the transform, “I created the desk and a lot of furnishings myself,” he reported.

The new area features a customized-developed, raised bar major.

“The bar top rated is 1 of my preferred parts of the transform,” John explained. “I adore walnut, and just one of the matters I truly desired to include was a beautiful piece of walnut.”

The bar area also involves walnut floating cabinets on a stone and tile wall, a wine chiller, ice maker, dishwasher and a keg fridge. Luxury vinyl plank flooring runs through the lessen stage, which has 15 home windows to deliver in daylight and offer a picturesque perspective.

For Rebecca, the ability to get pleasure from top quality time with family and close friends at dwelling is the greatest section of the remodeled area.

“Having more area to spread out and entertain is fantastic,” she stated. “We adore investing spouse and children time playing darts, making use of the pool desk and internet hosting. We enjoy to have significant family members gatherings and have a lot of place to enjoy and spread out.”

“I love to cook dinner, and we’re the two truly associated with Rotary,” John additional. “We’ve hosted a ton of dinners and functions to aid raise dollars for charitable triggers.”

The do the job on the transform concluded up at the starting of April 2020, just as the Schultz spouse and children — like so several other people — started expending a large amount of time at residence during the pandemic.

“The pool desk is 1 of our favorite options, and we’ve gotten decently very good at it through COVID,” Rebecca mentioned.

In addition to the musical devices, “we tried to incorporate a large amount of personalized touches,” John mentioned. “We also adore to travel, ski, swim, cycle and do yoga. So there’s a picture of the lake the place Rebecca grew up and a picture of h2o snowboarding.”

The completed transform is just what the couple envisioned.

“We have been going for a variety of fashionable look that is a very little warmer,” she stated. “The home furnishings we picked is type of a modern-fulfills-mid-century-present day appear.”

With the personalised touches, the room truly feels like house for the Schultz spouse and children.

“We feel like we hit the nail on the head,” Rebecca said.