THE SETUP Client Background: Our clients, a couple who have transitioned into the empty nest phase, have cherished their home for over three decades without undergoing any significant renovations. With a newfound desire to adapt their living space to better suit their current lifestyle, they’ve embarked on a journey to reimagine their kitchen — the heart of their home. Their aspiration is to cultivate a serene, neutral-toned sanctuary on the first floor that seamlessly merges with their family room, ensuring a harmonious and inviting environment. Design Inspiration: The renovation is inspired by the couple’s penchant for soft, calming neutrals, using their cherished family room and the kitchen’s existing tile flooring as the cornerstone for the color scheme. This approach aims to foster a sense of warmth and tranquility throughout. Design Objectives: Harmonize the kitchen with the family room by adopting a soothing, neutral color scheme, ensuring a seamless flow across the first floor. Enhance kitchen functionality with thoughtfully designed cabinetry, providing a designated place for every item and maximizing storage efficiency. Cultivate an inviting and comfortable atmosphere that reflects the homeowners’ desire for a calm and relaxing space. Design Challenges: The homeowners wish to retain the existing kitchen tile flooring and integrate it into a refreshed, modern design. Accommodating a dining area spacious enough for family visits without compromising the kitchen’s open feel or functional layout. Despite liking the current placement of plumbing and appliances, the homeowners aspire for a more open floor plan to facilitate better movement and interaction. The need to amplify natural light in the kitchen, especially around the sink area, where existing lighting is insufficient. Preserving the half-wall between the kitchen and family room, a feature the homeowners want to keep, while ensuring it complements the new design. THE RENEWED SPACE Design Solutions: By choosing a neutral color palette that complements the existing tile, the design unifies the kitchen with the adjacent spaces. The tile’s grout was cleaned and restored, enhancing the floor’s appearance and integrating it seamlessly with the new kitchen aesthetic. The inclusion of a larger island with seating for two, alongside maintaining a substantial dining table, was achieved by optimizing the spatial layout. This allowed for a sociable yet functional kitchen, accommodating large family gatherings without feeling crowded. Minor adjustments to the kitchen’s layout maintained the preferred locations for plumbing and appliances while introducing an ‘open’ design concept. Strategic modifications, such as angling the pantry wall, improved the flow and accessibility within the space. Replacing the garden window with a broader, standard window significantly increased natural light, transforming the sink area into a bright, welcoming space with enhanced views of the outdoors. The decision to keep the half-wall was ingeniously leveraged to define the dining area while maintaining an open connection to the family room. This feature not only serves as a visual separator but also ties the two spaces together through the shared color scheme and design elements. The homeowners are thrilled with their newly remodeled kitchen, which has become a hub of warmth and hospitality. Hosting a wedding shower and a birthday party, they have shared their renewed space with friends and family, who have been equally enamored. This remodel has not only met their functional and aesthetic desires but has also enriched their home with a fresh sense of serenity and joy. The upstairs part of the home is shaping up nicely. Here’s their newly remodeled primary bathroom.

Download our free ebook, Creating the Ideal Kitchen. DOWNLOAD NOW This unit, located in a 4-flat owned by TKS Owners Jeff and Susan Klimala, was remodeled as their personal pied-à-terre, and doubles as an Airbnb property when they are not using it. Jeff and Susan were drawn to the location of the building, a vibrant Chicago neighborhood, 4 blocks from Wrigley Field, as well as to the vintage charm of the 1890’s building. The entire 2 bed, 2 bath unit was renovated and furnished, including the kitchen, with a specific Parisian vibe in mind. Although the location and vintage charm were all there, the building was not in ideal shape -- the mechanicals -- from HVAC, to electrical, plumbing, to needed structural updates, peeling plaster, out of level floors, the list was long. Susan and Jeff drew on their expertise to update the issues behind the walls while also preserving much of the original charm that attracted them to the building in the first place -- heart pine floors, vintage mouldings, pocket doors and transoms. Because this unit was going to be primarily used as an Airbnb, the Klimalas wanted to make it beautiful, maintain the character of the building, while also specifying materials that would last and wouldn’t break the budget. Susan enjoyed the hunt of specifying these items and still coming up with a cohesive creative space that feels a bit French in flavor. Parisian style décor is all about casual elegance and an eclectic mix of old and new. Susan had fun sourcing some more personal pieces of artwork for the space, creating a dramatic black, white and moody green color scheme for the kitchen and highlighting the living room with pieces to showcase the vintage fireplace and pocket doors. Photographer: @MargaretRajic Photo stylist: @Brandidevers Do you have a new home that has great bones but just doesn’t feel comfortable and you can’t quite figure out why? Contact us here to see how we can help!

ロンドンにある高級な中くらいなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (ドロップインシンク、ガラス扉のキャビネット、黒いキャビネット、大理石カウンター、緑のキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、パネルと同色の調理設備、セラミックタイルの床、グレーの床、緑のキッチンカウンター) の写真

ボストンにある高級な中くらいなトランジショナル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、フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、青いキャビネット、クオーツストーンカウンター、青いキッチンパネル、レンガのキッチンパネル、パネルと同色の調理設備、セラミックタイルの床、グレーの床、黒いキッチンカウンター) の写真

オースティンにあるラグジュアリーな巨大なトランジショナル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、青いキャビネット、クオーツストーンカウンター、白いキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、セラミックタイルの床、グレーの床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

Luxuriously dark cabinetry, light worktops and walls with a spacious feel - this is a cool take on a classical kitchen design. Custom made for a couple with a keen eye for design, who work hard, know how to relax and absolutely adore their pups. Their kitchen renovation was part of a whole house restoration. With busy careers and two pups the brief highlighted two main aims. Firstly, to create space to enjoy the kitchen, for cooking and relaxing. Secondly, to provide customised storage so that everything has a place to help keep the space tidy. The main kitchen area is where the culinary magic happens with space to unwind. The home bar for gin and wine lovers, includes wine racks, antique mirror, glazed shelves for the gin collection and two fridge drawers for wine and mixers. Designed with pocket doors it can be left open to admire the beautiful bottles, or closed – maybe for Dry January?! It’s positioned cleverly next to their outdoor ‘lounge’ area complete with comfortable chairs and an outside rug. The larder cupboard has spice / oil racks, baskets and boxes at the bottom for treats. There are electrical points inside so the coffee machine is plugged in here and ready to serve that morning espresso. Being able to keep the kitchen tidy was important so we created a ‘home for everything’ using drawers within drawers, an Oak baking tray divider, pan drawers with lid holders and integrated chopping board and tray spaces. The ovens, warming drawer, induction hob and downdraft extractor are positioned together with the plenty of prep worktop space. The cooking section is aligned with the washing area including Fisher and Paykel dishwasher drawers, beautifully glossy white ceramic sink and boiling water tap. With a slim Oak shelf above for displaying favourite things. The Island serves as a breakfast bar as well as a sweet spot for a casual supper. There is a Zebrano wood knife block inset into the Island worktop so that their Global knife collection is on hand for food prep by the hob and oven. The table and chairs are painted in the same colour as the cabinets and upholstered in black and white, with bench seating by the window including drawers for dog toys conveniently by the doors to the garden. The second part of the design is the walk-in butler’s style pantry. This area was designed to keep the kitchen ‘clutter’ out of the main area. And it is a brilliant area to stack all the dirty dishes when entertaining as it’s completely out of sight. The cabinetry is an a classic ‘u’ shape and houses the fridge, freezer, cupboards for large appliances, oversized dishes and one for the mop and bucket. The tall cupboards with bi-fold doors are for food storage, and you can see from the photos that everything is beautifully kept – rice, pasta, popcorn, quinoa all in lovely named jars. It’s an organisers dream come true. There is also a sink for washing vegetables and oodles of prep surface. Colour pallet The cabinetry is hand painted in Farrow and Ball ‘Off-Black’. Dark and inky, it just lures you right in, timeless and deeply refined. With the cabinetry being grand in proportion too, with detailed cornicing it creates a really bold statement in this space. It can be daunting to go for a dark shade of black, blue or green, but you can see the drama of the cabinets is perfectly matched with plenty of natural light, the white walls and warm Oak floor tiles. The white patterned Domus ‘Biscuit’ tiles bring texture and playfulness. The worktop, Caesarstone Ocean Foam, is a white quartz with speckles of grey crystals. In a classic polished finish it lets the rest of the room do the ‘singing’ while providing a clean light reflecting practical surface for preparing and enjoying food and drinks. The floor tiles bring the warmth. No two tiles have the same pattern so they really do look like wood, but are better suited to the pups as they don’t scratch and are non-slip. Lighting Design The slim black framed windows with doors onto the garden flood the kitchen with natural light and warmth during the day. But atmospheric lighting into the evening was important too, so we incorporated custom lighting in the glass cabinet, gin cabinet and pantry. “It is so well integrated and was a really important thing for me, along with all the smart lighting in the room, and Mike did a great job with it all.” It was such a pleasure to make this kitchen. They wanted to work with a local company and we feel so lucky they picked us.

Кухня по эскизу дизайнера изготовлена на производстве студии. Фартук по эскизу дизайнера изготовлен в керамической мастерской Сreaceramics. Текстиль бюро GL. Напольная метлахская Английская плитка Салон Биг Бен. Стулья винтаж из RepeatStory. Дизайн - Елена Ленских

ニューヨークにあるお手頃価格の中くらいなトランジショナル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、中間色木目調キャビネット、クオーツストーンカウンター、白いキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、セラミックタイルの床、黒い床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

Simple design, simple life. Less is more.
香港にある小さなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (白いキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルの床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

This kitchen features perfect mix of old and new. The countertops, floors, backsplash, sink, faucet, fridge, and dishwasher were all reused. This kitchen was in desperate need of a simple door and drawer style, new hardware, new oven and microwave and new paint. We removed all the old doors, drawers, crown molding, oven and microwave. We modified the oven and microwave openings, added a new deeper cabinet over the fridge with tray dividers, added new doors and drawers fronts and painted the cabinets. We also replaced all the old drawer boxes and side mount glides with new solid wood dovetail drawer boxes with undermount full extension soft close drawer glides. We even upgraded the hinges on the new doors to soft close door hinges. No more sound of slamming doors and drawers in this kitchen!! We finished off the cabinets with new taller crown molding and added new door and drawer hardware to complement the stainless appliances. Kitchen Specs: Galley Kitchen Reface with Showplace Renew Cabinetry; Breckenridge Door w/SRDE Drawer Front in Soft Cream Painted Finish

Фото: Василий Буланов
モスクワにあるお手頃価格の小さなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (一体型シンク、レイズドパネル扉のキャビネット、濃色木目調キャビネット、人工大理石カウンター、ベージュキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、セラミックタイルの床、ベージュの床) の写真

他の地域にあるお手頃価格の中くらいなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (エプロンフロントシンク、ルーバー扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、ソープストーンカウンター、ベージュキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、セラミックタイルの床、アイランドなし、グレーの床) の写真

A colouful kitchen in a victorian house renovation. The view here is from the pantry through to main kitchen which features two tone kitchen cabinets in soft green and off-white. The areas are separated with crittall doors with reeded glass

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他の地域にあるトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれなアイランドキッチン (ドロップインシンク、シェーカースタイル扉のキャビネット、青いキャビネット、珪岩カウンター、白いキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、セラミックタイルの床) の写真

他の地域にある高級な広いトランジショナル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、インセット扉のキャビネット、濃色木目調キャビネット、御影石カウンター、マルチカラーのキッチンパネル、モザイクタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、セラミックタイルの床、ベージュの床) の写真

他の地域にある高級な広いトランジショナル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、インセット扉のキャビネット、濃色木目調キャビネット、御影石カウンター、マルチカラーのキッチンパネル、モザイクタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、セラミックタイルの床、ベージュの床) の写真

デンバーにある高級な中くらいなトランジショナル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、淡色木目調キャビネット、御影石カウンター、グレーのキッチンパネル、モザイクタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、セラミックタイルの床) の写真

A basement storage space was opened up and transformed into a beautiful kitchenette to make the basement a space built for entertaining, and enhanced the previously completed built-in BBQ outside. David Cho Photography www.DavidChoPhotography.com

ニューヨークにあるお手頃価格の中くらいなトランジショナル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、中間色木目調キャビネット、クオーツストーンカウンター、白いキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、セラミックタイルの床、グレーの床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真