This sleek hi-rise remodel more than 30 stories up in the air was a challenge in both design and materials. Flooded with intense natural light and open to sweeping urban views during the day, the kitchen quickly becomes dark and inward at night, relying solely on artificial light. Designer Matthew Rao suggested a large island that would encompass the prep and cleanup zones, the surface cooking area, and dining surface for four. This island has dining room storage on the rear. The layout, with a tall wall of concealed refrigeration, wall ovens, and loads of pantry storage, keeps the clients facing the view and each other rather than looking toward the wall, where the cooking was before. Designers Suzanne Williams and Rao concurred that a gloss midnight grey finish was what the room needed, reflecting light at night to create a deep and expansive feel, and reflecting the high rises across the street into the clients' kitchen. SieMatic Cabinetry is full of organizational features, while Gaggenau appliances give the home chef in this couple amazing culinary capabilities and superior aesthetics at the same time. Every drawer is fitted in SieMatc's Multimatic dividers. The aesthetic simplicity of the kitchen design allows special Italian linear LED lighting in the ceiling to become both its own design element as well as a flexible functional light source. And the living space at one end and dining space at the other do not feel overtaken or overshadowed by the kitchen.

Colette Scharf shineinfo@shaw.ca
エドモントンにある中くらいなモダンスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (アンダーカウンターシンク、シェーカースタイル扉のキャビネット、黒いキャビネット、御影石カウンター、グレーのキッチンパネル、ガラスタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床、マルチカラーのキッチンカウンター) の写真

This Queenstown home features Trends Kitchens joinery throughout, including all storage, robes, a bar and a coffee station. The kitchen boasts a spectacular stone benchtop, with battened American Oak to the underside of the curved island. The negative details feature a brass laminate detail to tie in the marble in the stone, alongside the stunning Archant Berkley handles.

The Brief was to fit new custom cabinetry in to the existing footprint. We increased the storage and made it more effective by using drawers under all bench tops and adding two banks of over head cupboards on the tall side. Megan Franey (photographer)