This project is a pre-move-in interior renovation in South Jersey completed by DeCicco Property Group. The home had a closed-off layout with heavy knotty pine paneling, original wood-look flooring, and rooms cut off from one another by an interior wall. The homeowner wanted to come home to a bright open-concept living space with fresh flooring throughout, all done before her boxes hit the front porch.
For homeowners planning a similar interior overhaul, this project shows what a tight timeline looks like when wall removal, flooring, and finish work all run together with one contractor on site.
Lacey reached out to DeCicco Property Group with a clear vision and a tight deadline. She had just bought a lakefront home in South Jersey and wanted the inside reworked before she moved in. The existing layout split the front room and the sun room with a load-bearing interior wall, and every surface inside was either dark knotty pine paneling or dated wood-strip flooring. The home felt closed off, even with the deck and water view right outside the slider door.
She walked Lou through the floor plan and described what she wanted: one open space that flowed from the front door to the slider, lighter wood-tone flooring run all the way through, and a softer wall treatment that let in the natural light coming off the lake. The work had to be done before her move-in date, with no surprises and no overlap with the moving truck.
Lou and the crew laid out a sequence that handled demo, framing, flooring, and finish in one stretch. The interior wall came down first so the crew could see the run for the new flooring across both rooms as one continuous space. Then the team prepped the subfloor, installed the new vinyl plank end to end, refreshed the trim and paint, and walked Lacey through the finished home before she signed for the keys.
The wall that split the front living room from the sun room came down, and the doorway header was reframed clean to the ceiling. From the slider to the front door, the home now reads as one connected space instead of two cut-off rooms. Sightlines run the full depth of the house, which makes the lake view feel like part of the living room. Standing in the entryway, you can see straight through to the deck and the water beyond it.
The original wood-strip flooring came up and a fresh light-tone vinyl plank floor went down across every room on the main level. Running the same plank through both rooms ties the new open layout together visually. Vinyl plank holds up to lake-house traffic, gives the homeowner an easy-clean surface, and keeps the warm wood feel the original home had without the dated tone. The new floor also sits lower in profile, which made the door clearances and transitions work without retrimming.
With the heavy knotty pine paneling gone in the front section and the sun room paneling left in place to keep some of the home’s original character, the team finished the dividing wall in a deep teal that grounds the new open layout. The contrast between the soft floor tone, the white ceiling, and the accent wall makes the space feel intentional rather than transitional.
“Lou and his team did a great job helping my idea come to life. I needed a wall taken down for more of open space concept and flooring laid thruout my home before moving in. Im so happy with outcome. Price was super fair too— thanks again so much!!!”
Kitchen Remodeling in Hammonton often starts with an open-concept conversion like this one. Opening up an interior wall changes how the kitchen, dining, and living spaces connect, which is exactly the kind of layout rework DeCicco handles every month for South Jersey homeowners.
Basement Finishing in Hammonton uses the same demo-frame-floor-finish sequence we ran on Lacey’s main level. If you are converting an unfinished basement or want to refresh an outdated one, the workflow on this project translates directly to lower-level interior buildouts.
Bathroom Renovation in Hammonton often pairs with a whole-home interior reset like this one. When the floor plan is already opening up and finishes are getting refreshed, the bathroom usually comes along for the ride.
Browse more recent work, including the Kitchen Renovation in Mullica Township and the Open Concept Conversion in South Jersey, to see how the team handles full-home and master-suite-scale projects across the area.
