A Kitchen Designers Challenge
Kitchen Before |
They say that beauty is in the eye of
the beholder, but what they don’t tell you is so is form and function. It can
be a challenge for any REMODELING or DESIGN professional
when you take on a new client, go look at the room to be redone and think it’s
beautiful! “Why would you want to change this?” we sometimes think to
ourselves. What we have to keep in mind is that it doesn’t matter what we
think of it, or if it would work for our lifestyle. What is important is that
it doesn’t work for our client! Take for example this Cobb County KITCHEN.
Despite a dated stain on the cabinetry, it could have been the ideal KITCHEN
for a young couple, even empty-nesters, but it did not work for this family
with three young children who lived there.
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Kitchen After |
Though the kitchen had new STAINLESS
APPLIANCES, solid surface COUNTERTOPS and a tumbled STONE
BACKSPLASH the client’s wished for a more uniform use of high-end
materials throughout the space. They had more of a unique DESIGNER
look in mind, instead of a production builder style layout. They also
absolutely had to have more seating! As the professionals in this
situation, we now had a creative challenge. The clients wanted to add more
storage, more countertop space and more seating all in the existing
space.
Our team confronted this challenge by
removing a useless wing wall to create a longer, continuous wall of cabinetry.
The L-shaped Island was removed to make room for a larger more functional
island in the center of the room. A pantry which also served as a support
structure was completely removed. LVL beans had to be installed to adequately
support the second floor of the home. The removal of the boxy feature really
opened up the space and improved the traffic flow from the hall, through the
kitchen to the family room. Finally, a window seat was designed out of the
perimeter CABINETRY to maximize the full potential for seating in
the existing space. A table pushed up to the new window seat gave the client’s
the extra seating they wanted.
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Spice pullouts, rollout drawers, and a
pantry pullout give the redesigned kitchen the ultimate in function and
storage. The new flow of the KITCHEN and the open feel of the space
was an astounding change for the clients. The new large ISLAND
boasted seating for four and served as the children’s homework central. Books,
binders, pens and pencils could all be stored in the shelving alongside the
chairs. The very large, single level countertop allowed for more than one chef
to work in the KITCHEN at a time. This design decision was very
important and very personal for these clients as cooking with the kids was a
special family tradition.
A challenge? Yes. Impossible? No. It is
always a pleasant surprise, even for those of us in the industry, what some
literal “outside the box” thinking can do. It always leads to the most fabulous
transformations and the most popular!
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