The South Carolina Home at Montreat Board of Trustees agreed to move forward with plans to fully renovate the Kirk Apartments. The purpose of this project is to upgrade bathrooms where needed, improve all kitchens, and increase the energy efficiency of the entire facility, making it more economical to operate on a year round basis.  

The plans, which are well underway, include making the bathrooms in units 101 and 102 handicapped accessible and adding a basic food preparation area.  The 40 year old bathrooms in units 201 and 202 will be completely renovated. All 4 upstairs units will have new kitchen cabinets, fixtures, and appliances along with additional cabinet and counter food prep areas. Units 103 and 104 renovations include extending the usable kitchen space by replacing closets with armoire cabinet units and adding a small island cabinet counter unit.

All 8 units will have new energy  efficient windows and the upper units will have new patio doors to replace the old sliding glass doors. While decreasing the single pane glass exposure we have updated the styling and kept plenty of view area to take in the mountain. The original baseboard heat will function more efficiently on those colder evenings with all the added insulation. The new double hung windows and screens will help with cross ventilation on the warmer days. 

The image to the left shows units 104 and 204 with the new windows and patio doors. The     image below was taken from inside unit 201.

The whole exterior will be resided with hardy plank lap siding. The scope of this project, along with having had the roof replaced within the last few years, will give us a fully renewed facility. We hope to have renovations completed and the units ready for guests by mid April.    

 

Contributions toward this project  are greatly appreciated.