Reading has seen its share of improvements and additions. After living there for nine years, Bryn Panee Burkhart and Eric Burkhart were ready to revamp the kitchen and, with encouragement from designer Leah Hook, reconfigure the layout of the rooms around it. “The kitchen had ended up in the center of the house and had openings to five other rooms,” the principal of Gray Oak Studio says. “It was almost a glorified hallway.”
