Pawley's Kitchen Remodel

The house was built 30 years ago for the developer of this golf community. He and his wife entertained a lot, although they didn’t do the cooking; the kitchen was for “the help.” The public rooms of the home—large formal living and dining rooms, den, and breakfast room—feature antique heart pine floors and cherry paneling in the den, but the kitchen had none of those features; it was serviceable but nothing special at all (and the 30-year-old appliances were starting to fail). Two exterior walls of the house are brick, which led to the selection of brick for the backsplashes on two walls. The homeowner found these bricks on-line; they are antique from an old church that was demolished. And now the kitchen floor matches the rest of the wood floors— antique heart pine. Similarly, the cherry cabinets are an extension of the cherry paneling in the den nearby.