Wanting a more open and streamlined layout for entertaining guests, as well as a style that looked fresh and better suited to the Southwest, the homeowners hired designer Kimberley Worswick to spearhead a major overhaul. Worswick rethought the layout, moving the location of the kitchen to the dining room. She ditched the angled peninsula in favor of a large open-base island that can seat 10 people. Another, more standard island now sits in the main kitchen area and has additional seating, storage and the main sink, which creates an efficient work triangle. White-and-wood cabinets, zellige-look ceramic backsplash tile and Mediterranean-style pendant lights deliver an airy and welcoming style that nods to the home’s surroundings.
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The window was installed two months before the cabinetry went in. That made it challenging to set the handmade cast-iron, wall-mounted sink, one of the key elements of the vision for an old English working kitchen.
“It is not flat; it is not plumb. There are no 90-degree angles. It’s very imperfect, which is part of the beauty,” says Laura Marshall, Refined Renovations’ director of marketing.
To get the sink centered and with an even reveal, and at the same time have its wall-mounted faucet perfectly line up with the plumbing, there was no room for error. Luckily, with a lot of coordination between the design and production teams, the installation went flawlessly, Marshall says.
Faucet: Country Kitchen bridge in satin nickel, Rohl