That breaths new life into this kitchen, and by extension, we believe it opens up the door to others who are a bit shy of trying new colors in their space. As for this one, it’s going to open up more minds to try new and interesting bold colors. Not every space  could wear a color like this, but our clients surely did well with this statement piece.

We did not start out with choosing this bold color, which I think was the absolute best option for our client. In the end, it was the thing that really brought this all together.

Prior to this renovation, the kitchen was trapped in time and was in a tricky location. This was not one of those remodels where you open walls and create an open concept. Each movement had significant implications in the house footprint, because it was more of a connection and flow, instead of structure and load bearing wall. Designing this sapce was not that simple.

Some areas of the kitchen had a view down to the hallway that led to the bedroom areas. We needed to address that, because the view would impact the function and feel of the house from the moment you enter the front door. There was another wall on the other side, that connected to another seating area that connected to the deck in the back via a huge oversize glass door. This too needed to be taken into consideration as to how we would tie this design into the space. We had a family who enjoys spending not just quality time in the kitchen, but I might say, spending professional time in the kitchen as one of them really know his way around a range, so function of the space was front and center over style. It was a domino effect.

As with every other project, this too was not without its challenges, but if doing this was easy, everyone would have done it. Its never as simple as it looks. We gutted the space and right away, started running into issues after issues. There were some delays that we had to navigate around and also the challenge of doing a renovation with the family actively living in the house. However, slowly but surely, overcoming one problem at a time and moving forward, we were able to begin to see this space come to life. To make all this possible and aesthetically pleasing, yet functional, we had to close up a second door that was leading to the deck and replaced it with a window there instead. We then removed the old kitchen window and put in a new one there that has no grills. Even while we reduced the large oversize door to the deck for a standard 6-foot opening, we picked up additional lighting from the newly open up walls to the front of the house and to the dining room side as well.

Drawing from the inspiration of the homeowners, their love for live edge wood details and hand-crafted unique wood pieces can be seen with those beautiful floating shelves and dining table. To acheive that look, our clients drove all the way up to Cape Cod to hand select the wood, and we knew we could not now go with the typical standard white kitchen. With that said, we settled on this lovely Caribbean teal by Sherwin Wlliams. I must confess that at first, I was a bit skeptical of it, but I was ok with it for the continuous peninsular section, but then they said to us that they like it so much that they want to do it all in the same color. In the end, it was such a good decision made.

If any kitchen was going to try on Caribbean Teal by Sherwin Williams and was going to try and pull this off in great style and fashion, it was going to be this kitchen, and this family, and I gotta tell yah, She wears it well!!

Another happy client and onto the next.