Kitchen

The custom open kitchen pairs strips of reclaimed wood and marble sourced locally from Vermont Danby Marble. Photographer: Nico Arellano
Photo of a small modern single-wall open plan kitchen in New York with an undermount sink, flat-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, quartzite benchtops, white splashback, stone slab splashback, panelled appliances, light hardwood floors, a peninsula, beige floor and white benchtop.

Small doesn't have to mean boring. This galley kitchen has style to spare. Homeowner opted for refrigerator drawers rather than having a full size fridge. Dishwasher front panel looks like 3-drawer base to keep the unified cabinet front look. Lovely hardwood floors. And yes, the phone is for real. Photographer Robert J. Polett, Lancaster, PA.

Kitchen with dramatic red accents LED lighting brings this double height kitchen to life by enriching the red accents around the space. Open shelving provides an opportunity for personal touches and visual interest. Mezzanine gallery hangs over this space with glass balustrade.

Jo-Ann Richards Works Photography Inc.
Design ideas for a small transitional u-shaped eat-in kitchen in Calgary with shaker cabinets, white cabinets, granite benchtops, porcelain splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors, a double-bowl sink, grey splashback and a peninsula.

This is an example of a small beach style l-shaped eat-in kitchen in Boston with an undermount sink, glass-front cabinets, white cabinets, solid surface benchtops, white splashback, stone slab splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors and no island.

Stephanie Schetter © 2015 Houzz
Photo of a small scandinavian single-wall eat-in kitchen in Dusseldorf with a farmhouse sink, flat-panel cabinets, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors, no island, stainless steel benchtops, white splashback and ceramic splashback.

This home was built in 1947 and the client wanted the style of the kitchen to reflect the same vintage. We installed wood floors to match the existing floors throughout the rest of the home. The tile counter tops reflect the era as well as the painted cabinets with shaker doors.

What a transformation! We first enlarged the opening from the dining area and kitchen to bring the two spaces together. We were able to take out the soffit in the kitchen and used cabinets to the ceiling making the space feel larger. The curved countertop extends into the dining room area providing a place to sit for morning coffee and a chat with the cook!

This open urban kitchen invites with pops of yellow and an eat in dining table. A highly functional, contemporary beauty featuring wide plank white oak grey stained floors, white lacquer refrigerator and washing machine, brushed aluminum lower cabinets and walnut upper cabinets. Pure white Caesarstone countertops, Blanco kitchen faucet and sink, Bertazzoni range, Bosch dishwasher, architectural lighting trough with LED lights, and Emtech brushed chrome door hardware complete the high-end look.

Maple cabinets and paneled refrigerator create a seamless and cohesive kitchen design.
This is an example of a small contemporary u-shaped eat-in kitchen in San Francisco with a drop-in sink, flat-panel cabinets, medium wood cabinets, quartz benchtops, multi-coloured splashback, ceramic splashback, stainless steel appliances and light hardwood floors.

View of kitchen from the dining area. Paul Dyer photography
Small midcentury u-shaped eat-in kitchen in San Francisco with an undermount sink, flat-panel cabinets, medium wood cabinets, quartz benchtops, white splashback, ceramic splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors and no island.

This homeowner wanted a budget friendly update for her kitchen. We accomplished her goal by adding beautiful Cambria Quartz Countertops and a tile backsplash. She did not have a window over her sink and wanted something interesting to look at so we designed a custom design using a combination of ceramic, glass and stone tiles.

We completely remodeled an outdated, poorly designed kitchen that was separated from the rest of the house by a narrow doorway. We opened the wall to the dining room and framed it with an oak archway. We transformed the space with an open, timeless design that incorporates a counter-height eating and work area, cherry inset door shaker-style cabinets, increased counter work area made from Cambria quartz tops, and solid oak moldings that echo the style of the 1920's bungalow. Some of the original wood moldings were re-used to case the new energy efficient window.

Création d’un studio étudiant par la réunion de deux chambres de bonne, au dernier étage sous combles, dans un immeuble haussmannien rue de Rivoli. L’espace exigüe, tout en longueur et presque entièrement sous pente est agencé afin d’en faire un logement confortable et fonctionnel. Une rénovation complète du lieu a été réalisée : réfection totale du sol, réalisation d'une isolation thermique des combles via de nouveaux isolants performants, création d’une salle de bain avec wc, création d’une cuisine comprenant de nombreux rangements, conception d’éléments de mobilier sur mesure optimisant l’espace. Crédits photos Antonio Duarte

Small transitional single-wall open plan kitchen in New York with an undermount sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors and no island.

Mark Bayer
This is an example of a small transitional galley eat-in kitchen in Burlington with an undermount sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, quartzite benchtops, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors and no island.

Open Kitchen with expansive views to open meadow below home. 3 level Island with multiple areas for storage and baking center. Counters are Fireslate and Granite. David Patterson Photography

Inspiration for a small traditional u-shaped eat-in kitchen in Chicago with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, laminate benchtops, ceramic splashback, stainless steel appliances, light hardwood floors and with island.

Architect Nils Finne has created a new, highly crafted modern kitchen in his own traditional Tudor home located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. The kitchen design relies on the creation of a very simple continuous space that is occupied by intensely crafted cabinets, counters and fittings. Materials such as steel, walnut, limestone, textured Alaskan yellow cedar, and sea grass are used in juxtaposition, allowing each material to benefit from adjacent contrasts in texture and color. The existing kitchen was enlarged slightly by removing a wall between the kitchen and pantry. A long, continuous east-west space was created, approximately 25-feet long, with glass doors at either end. The east end of the kitchen has two seating areas: an inviting window seat with soft cushions as well as a desk area with seating, a flat-screen computer, and generous shelving for cookbooks. At the west end of the kitchen, an unusual “L”-shaped door opening has been made between the kitchen and the dining room, in order to provide a greater sense of openness between the two spaces. The ensuing challenge was how to invent a sliding pocket door that could be used to close off the two spaces when the occasion required some separation. The solution was a custom door with two panels, and series of large finger joints between the two panels allowing the door to become “L” shaped. The resulting door, called a “zipper door” by the local fabricator (Quantum Windows and Doors), can be pushed completely into a wall pocket, or slid out and then the finger joints allow the second panel to swing into the “L”-shape position. In addition to the “L”-shaped zipper door, the renovation of architect Nils Finne’s own house presented other opportunity for experimentation. Custom CNC-routed cabinet doors in Alaskan Yellow Cedar were built without vertical stiles, in order to create a more continuous texture across the surface of the lower cabinets. LED lighting was installed with special aluminum reflectors behind the upper resin-panel cabinets. Two materials were used for the counters: Belgian Blue limestone and Black walnut. The limestone was used around the sink area and adjacent to the cook-top. Black walnut was used for the remaining counter areas, and an unusual “finger” joint was created between the two materials, allowing a visually intriguing interlocking pattern , emphasizing the hard, fossilized quality of the limestone and the rich, warm grain of the walnut both to emerge side-by-side. Behind the two counter materials, a continuous backsplash of custom glass mosaic provides visual continuity. Laser-cut steel detailing appears in the flower-like steel bracket supporting hanging pendants over the window seat as well as in the delicate steel valence placed in front of shades over the glass doors at either end of the kitchen. At each of the window areas, the cabinet wall becomes open shelving above and around the windows. The shelving becomes part of the window frame, allowing for generously deep window sills of almost 10”. Sustainable design ideas were present from the beginning. The kitchen is heavily insulated and new windows bring copious amounts of natural light. Green materials include resin panels, low VOC paints, sustainably harvested hardwoods, LED lighting, and glass mosaic tiles. But above all, it is the fact of renovation itself that is inherently sustainable and captures all the embodied energy of the original 1920’s house, which has now been given a fresh life. The intense craftsmanship and detailing of the renovation speaks also to a very important sustainable principle: build it well and it will last for many, many years! Overall, the kitchen brings a fresh new spirit to a home built in 1927. In fact, the kitchen initiates a conversation between the older, traditional home and the new modern space. Although there are no moldings or traditional details in the kitchen, the common language between the two time periods is based on richly textured materials and obsessive attention to detail and craft.