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After: De Vito knocked the kitchen back to the studs and raised the ceiling to over 12 feet. He added a fixed skylight above and a custom 4-by-8-foot fixed window on the left wall. He also swapped the solid door for a glass-paneled one topped by a transom window.
They added a sleek island with a sink to the single-wall layout to reconfigure the room into what’s effectively a galley kitchen, which has two parallel walls of cabinetry. Now De Vito and Carrasco can stand at the sink and socialize with people in the adjacent living room.
The couple wanted to keep the kitchen neutral and minimal, so they chose handleless, slab-front matte white laminate cabinets and painted the walls and ceiling white. The main kitchen flooring is 48-by-48-inch porcelain tile, also white.
To warm up the mostly white palette, they used laminate that resembles white oak on the cabinets above the cooktop and on the side of the island. Engineered white oak flooring extends from the island into the living room.
Cabinets: Eurodekor laminate in Vicenza Oak and Elegante Matte White, Egger; wall and ceiling paint: All White, Farrow & Ball
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“After” photos by Stephanie Russo
3. Log Cabin Loveliness
Kitchen at a Glance
Who lives here: A couple and the youngest two of their four children
Location: Nevada City, California
Size: About 75 square feet (7 square meters); 9 feet, 10 inches by 7 feet, 11 inches
Designer: Jada Gilbert of Design Shop Interiors
Before: This log cabin in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains had beautiful views and nature at its doorstep. It didn’t, however, have a kitchen befitting the new homeowners — a family with two kids. Basic appliances, not much storage or counter space, a galley layout and an uninspired, dark look spoke to the home’s former use as a rental. The owners hired designer Jada Gilbert to give them an inviting kitchen in a lighter palette as part of a bigger home makeover.
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The space lost a window but gained a walk-in pantry (through the door at back left), fulfilling a dream of one of the homeowners. A new full-height glass door, along with pendants and relocated recessed lights, more than make up for the lost rays.
Knotty alder open shelves above the sink break up the cabinet run and, along with red oak hardwood flooring and a wood island base, warm up the abundance of light-maximizing white.
Wall paint: Drift of Mist, Sherwin-Williams; cabinets: Woodharbor Custom Cabinetry; cabinet hardware: Lombard knobs and pulls in matte black, Franklin Brass; countertops: Frosty Carrina, Caesarstone
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