330 Homes Spring 2022

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by LYNNE THOMPSON and photos by ISO PHOTO STUDIO, JACQUELINE ZEMA

F R E SH L OOK Converting a laundry room from forgotten to cozy.

T he Summit County center-hall colonial was built in the early 1990s little more than a pass-through from the garage to a back hallway. But Katie Heinz, owner of Interior Design Studio in Medina, found the couple now living there was using it as a de facto drop-off point for outerwear and anything they and their two sons happened to have in their hands. “It was a cluster of disorganization,” she recalls. “It’s a big space, but it’s got this window in the middle of one wall. The only closet you saw in there was to the left of the sink. … And the tiny closet was being used for the vac uum, the cleaning prod ucts, that kind of stuff.” with a laundry room that was

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