Condo Kitchen
Project Details
Remodel Type: Kitchen
Design Style: Modern
Clients Favorite Part: Unique display space for their most treasured travel mementos
BEFORE CONDITIONS
- The kitchen has a large footprint with weird redundancies that functioned inefficiently because the original owner combining two units into one at the time of the building’s construction.
- The walls around the kitchen created a narrow entry hallway and restricted sight lines of the beautiful views out the windows in the living and dining rooms.
- The homeowners had two generations of artifacts collected in their world travels that needed an organized system for display.
- The two generation family sharing the space spent many years living in Morocco and wanted to mix those colors and patterns with a modern aesthetic.
Design Solutions
- Removed the walls between the kitchen and the entry, living and dining spaces resulting in sweeping views from the front door and an easy flow for entertaining.
- The refrigerator was placed off the center column and backed with a bookshelf on the entry side for displaying favorite objects, creating a focal point when entering the home while limiting views of the refrigerator.
- The underutilized left side of the kitchen was turned into a bar area to keep guests out of the main work zone.
- A curved open bookshelf adds functional storage and countertop space while providing clearance for traffic into the main work zone.
THE DETAILS
- Two types of soapstones were used to differentiate the kitchen countertops from the raised breakfast and bar counter zones.
- Walls covered in hand painted tiles bring the Moroccan influence to life.
Project Details
Remodel Type: Kitchen
Design Style: Modern
Clients Favorite Part: Unique display space for their most treasured travel mementos
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About Colleen
I live in Minneapolis with my landscape architect/urban designer husband, my daughter who believes she’s my design assistant and sous chef, an independent Siamese, a feisty grey-striped kitten, and a menagerie of turkeys and other wild animals who visit our backyard for the free food. When I’m not designing, you’ll often find me cooking up a Paleo feast, cheering for my daughter's volleyball team, playing pickleball, or hiding in a corner with my nose in a book.
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