Eurotek Dental Studio: Historic Home For a Modern Lab

Andrea Babson was in love. In her search for a new home for her laboratory, she found the perfect building: a charming, 100-year-old, Victorian house. Then, she tore it apart in order to turn the 1,500-sq.-ft. structure into a state-of-the-art facility for Eurotek Dental Studio, a four-person C&B lab in Red Bank, New Jersey.

It was a labor of love, but it wasn't an easy journey, requiring two years' worth of planning and building renovation before the actual lab construction could even start. Babson worked with an architect to remodel the building and tore down every wall that wasn't weight bearing in order to create a more open floorplan. The electrical system and piping were entirely replaced and much of the home's plaster was replaced with sheetrock. But, according to Babson, the end result has been worth every minute.

"It's beyond anything I ever imagined," she says. "It's not only a laboratory, it's somewhere I like to be and I'm...