PROJECT SCOPE Contemporary 1990’s single family home in Centreville, occupied by middle aged couple, seeking more contemporary style kitchen with much more colorful products. Existing kitchen is very limited; since she owns her own catering company and would like to entertain more, able to have much larger appliances, better flow in her kitchen with much

PROJECT SCOPE Contemporary 1990’s single family home in Centreville, occupied by middle aged couple, seeking more contemporary style kitchen with much more colorful products. Existing kitchen is very limited; since she owns her own catering company and would like to entertain more, able to have much larger appliances, better flow in her kitchen with much

PROBLEM: After 4 years occupancy, the owners of this Fairfax Station (VA) circa 2000 center hall Colonial had gradually identified a series of problems with both the functionality and aesthetics of the existing 21’ x 23’ kitchen as follows: existing floorplan is poorly rationalized and incohesive relative to appliance placements, work triangle requirements and even

The transformation in this kitchen is dramatic. The flow of traffic through the kitchen was always a problem for this family, and they wanted to separate the preparation areas from the main traffic flow through the kitchen into the breakfast room, laundry room and next door porch leading to the back yard. There was a

This relatively recently built home had a large kitchen, but the homeowners wanted a more dramatic kitchen, and they wanted to better utilize the breakfast room space that they did not use. As well, they had a corner pantry that took up wall space that they wanted to incorporate into the kitchen and the laundry

This townhouse kitchen was divided from the dining area by a wall with only a small door opening between them. In order to make the entire space one, we removed the wall and replaced it with the display counter and decorative pillar wrapping the support pole. This makes the kitchen seem much larger, and incorporates

To renovate and enlarge this kitchen, we needed to remove the peninsula configuration, and move the supporting wall back into the adjacent living room, to widen the doorway and provide the additional space that the homeowners needed for the cabinetry wall and larger refrigerator that they wanted. We also removed the recessed pantry cabinet that

This 1970′s kitchen was dated and was located in such a way as to chop up the entire floorspace on the main level. The owners wanted to open up the whole living space so that the kitchen would include the adjacent foyer, family and dining rooms into one large open space. This would also give

This country style kitchen was dark and dated and the owners had lived with it for nearly 20 years. They wanted to udpate it and brighten up the space. They wanted to upscale the design and appliances, and get better lighting. They chose to have a contrasting granite with the white cabinets, and pale yellow