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Kitchen-300

About the Project

Mid age couple owned a single family home with a small kitchen in Springfield. They no longer wished to tolerate its shortcomings.

They wanted the narrowness of the space to away and they kitchen really have space to handle a breakfast table for two. The peninsula was disrupting their traffic flow

  • Dark and cramped is what the owners described their kitchen
  • After several visits of our design staff, we had a game plan in placed
  • Removal of all bulkheads loaded with pipes and wiring
  • Remove a bearing wall between kitchen and family room and support it with recessed structural beam
  • Build up the flooring of breakfast area into adjacent family room to expand floor space
  • Remove of south wall closet and laundry area to widen up the kitchen
  • Removal of all flooring and install new tile floors to lay more open space leading from front foyer into hallway and kitchen.
  • Customer wanted to have highline appliances for their new kitchen
  • Use of the entire north wall for more cabinetry and built in bench under window.
  • Create a build contrasting color Island for casual seating and added storage covered with exotic

Stone counter top

  • South wall now is filled with 36” built in fridge and 36” build in freezer.
  • West wall now has the gas cook top and hood moved from Island
  • We brought plumbing for Pot filler behind cook top embedded into decorative mosaic back splash tile
  • Design team used some wasted space behind walls to create recessed bookcases, also widening doorway for future universal design was put in placed
  • The wet bar area in occupied with beverage center and a wine chiller and display cabinetry
  • The contrast of light cherry cabinetry with darker burgundy island covered with Dark counter top has made this job outstanding
  • Smart use of various type of lighting tasks given this project multiple faces for it daytime look and night entertainment modes