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2. Wood, Blue, Brass and Black-and-White Tile
Designer: Martina Servos of Lemon Grass Interior Architecture
Location: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Size: 408 square feet (38 square meters); 17 by 24 feet
Homeowners’ request. “My clients like to cook, they are family people and love to entertain,” designer Martina Servos says. “This is an addition. We bumped out the space to turn the old galley kitchen into a ‘real’ kitchen with an island, emphasized the connection to the family room by widening the opening and installed the 9-foot-long pass-through window to communicate with guests on the deck.”
Materials mix. Walnut cabinets. Blue cabinets (Dark Harbor by Benjamin Moore). Quartzite countertops. Oak flooring with cement tile insert around the island and for the hearth in front of an original chimney. A brass liner borders the tile. The hood is also brass. “In my view, visually speaking, a kitchen is a combination of verticals and horizontals,” Servos says. “The challenge is to get the mix right, neither too boring nor too chaotic. We used the walnut more sparsely for furniture-like elements; it made the material special.”
Other special features. The pass-through window over the sink connects the kitchen to a deck with a bar countertop and stools.
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29. Polished chrome or polished nickel. “These days, most of my clients ask me to specify finishes that are not too trendy, so either a polished chrome or polished nickel with a PDV or similar finish is my go-to,” Brock says. “Gold and matte brass are on-trend right now and they are beautiful, but I’m not sure how long they will be around, so I use them sparingly.”
When it comes to fashionable shower finishes, Palicki advises saving “the trends for things that are easier and less expensive to change, such as light fixtures, hardware and faucets.”