Luxury Kitchen

Family Kitchen
The Abel family has 13 members, 8 of which are adopted. The kitchen had to work well for multiple cooks and fundraising events featuring guest chefs while not giving up its design qualities. With two cooking surfaces, two sinks, Sub-Zero refrigerator drawers and a large 48-inch model as well, we needed to use every inch of space.

A lot of times you’ll find form and function don’t necessarily work well together; an appliance may look best somewhere other than where you would like it to be. We work hard to hide specific items that don’t look good in a design. This kitchen features an appliance garage and hidden microwave. The bowed back island seats four but also has individual touch panels that maximize storage in an unlikely place. The corbels by the range are pullout spice racks. The four apothecary drawers generally look good but don’t function well, so we hid additional storage behind the apothecary front—one pulls out to provide tray storage space while the others pull out into one silverware storage space.


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Stylish Kitchen

Style and Smallest Kitchen
We looked at knocking out walls in this small kitchen, but found that creative solutions to space issues made it function as the client wanted without going beyond the original space. By removing a peninsula, we completely opened up the area in this small kitchen. We used extra tall cabinets to provide the storage they needed.

While we did enclose one window where the cooktop now is, we wanted to leave the other to allow adequate light in. A custom plate rack breaks up the cabinetry and makes use of a space that was largely unusable—the plate rack depth is perfect, but a cabinet would have blocked the window. We did a recess in the wall for oil and wine storage for easy access while cooking.

On the south wall we put in a pantry with an appliance garage directly underneath. Because there was no countertop space, we installed a slide-out cutting board below the appliance garage so that appliances didn’t have to be lugged across the kitchen. Also, by using lighter glazed woods and white tile, the space visually looks open and clean.

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Multi functional kitchen

Multicook Kitchen
This home screamed for a kitchen remodel—the family really needed a two-person functional kitchen. Taking out the soffits left 9-foot ceilings, allowing the cabinets to reach the ceiling for additional storage. By stacking the wall cabinets we were able to reach the ceiling without having to use custom cabinets. They replicated the line of the windows placed on the interior walls. However, instead of actual windows we framed single plates of glass, achieving the look while cutting costs considerably.

Placement of appliances was a large factor in making the two-person kitchen. Placing the refrigerator in the middle of the kitchen created access from anywhere in the room. Sinks on each side of the refrigerator make it multi-cook-friendly, with a baker’s center, cooking area, and room for any helpers.

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Kitchen interior design

The client loves gardening and wanted to take advantage of the big, private backyard. We reworked the windows, added some new ones, and didn’t use any window coverings. The glass-fronted cabinets add to the windows’ light and airy effect.

To make up for lost storage, we added rollouts, cabinet space under the island cooktop, interior organizational systems, and a row of floor-to-ceiling cabinets on the opposite wall.

Other elements help to bring the outdoors in. The green granite on the countertops, the green tiles on the backsplash, and the taupe-colored maple cabinets reflect the colors of the Douglas fir trees. When you’re standing in this kitchen, you feel like you’re outside, like you’re standing in the middle of a forest.


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Outdoor Kitchen

This outdoor kitchen combines the easy maintenance of custom stainless steel cabinetry and countertops with stone and a stamped concrete patio. The stone accents the brick and stone of the home and works well with the textured concrete. The stainless steel countertop can withstand the weather and won’t discolor over time.

It’s an inviting mix of materials that will weather the outdoor elements well. They’re durable, but there’s most definitely a sense of style. The kitchen blends contemporary and traditional styling. It’s aesthetically pleasing while having lots of prep space to truly prepare a meal outside. There’s a small prep sink for convenience, and the cooktop has a variety of functions for grilling, rotisserie cooking, and sautéing. It’s perfect for entertaining outdoors.


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White Kitchen

White Kosher Kitchen
The biggest challenge in designing a kosher kitchen is to create a kitchen that doesn’t look like a complete appliance lineup. You can do anything aesthetically that you like. But to uphold Orthodox Jewish traditions you need separate preparation, cooking and cleanup areas for dairy products, for meats, and for any pavre, which includes all other foods, such as vegetables, fruits, eggs and fish.

In addition to a refrigerator and a cooktop, this kosher kitchen includes two sinks, two ovens, two microwaves and two dishwashers. The refrigerator and dishwashers are hidden behind cabinet panels and the second oven is on the side of the island that faces the back door. The sinks are in the corners for symmetry and balance. You don’t see the two microwaves right away because your eyes go to the range and hood that serve as the focal point of the room. The granite countertops and stainless steel sinks and faucets are not only popular design choices but are also nonporous and can be easily sanitized for multiple uses.

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Modern Kitchen

Modern Kosher Kitchen
In any kitchen, the biggest design challenge is making it beautiful and having it function properly for the client. This client needed the space to function as a kosher kitchen, requiring features that mainly have to do with dish cleanup and storage. There was a lot to fit in because of the necessary duplication of things. The required meat and dairy separation called for separate sinks, dishwashers and storage areas.

We split the cleanup area in half. The left side is stainless steel and houses the meat dishes, sink, dishwasher and storage. The walnut section is for the dairy dishes and includes its own sink. The pullout trash divides the two areas with a split-panel front. The stainless and walnut is a beautiful combination and makes it very easy to keep things separate—the client instantly knows where things are supposed to go.

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One-of-a-kind kitchen

Creative Contemporary
For a busy family, this kitchen never stops both in function and design. The cabinets are cabernet-stained cherry, natural maple with black accents. Spice pullouts with custom turned pilasters flank the commercial range. Pilasters further frame the extra-deep stainless steel sink and SubZero refrigerator/pantry area. For whimsy, a plate rack and a river of granite stones create a one-of-a-kind kitchen.



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Modern Brilliance

These clients entertain regularly and engage caterers often – so the kitchen had to function well for large crowds. Vertical grain cherry and stainless steel cabinets with glass mosaic backsplash, easily work with the NW Contemporary design. Curves were integrated into the kitchen as a design element to break up the long, narrow space (8” x 27’). To anchor the range wall, tall cabinets meld the wood and metal in a curvilinear design creating sculptural interest. This curve design was repeated in the backsplash over the sink where the tile meets the sheetrock, and on both sides of the range and sink.



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