This award winning kitchen always takes my breath away. My sweet, sweet client and I had such a blast working on this together. Our collaboration resulted in a glamorous kitchen!
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Showing posts with label kitchens. Show all posts
A New Orleans Style French Country Kitchen
photo by David Tompkins
Green & White
This is a fabulous kitchen that I designed a few years ago. The homeowners were amazing people to work with and were really open to an updated look! (I did not have to talk them out of diagonal corner wall cabinets and glazed finishes.)
The kitchen is a huge improvement from it's original state---a tiny closed in room. The wall between the living area and kitchen was removed and the windows on either side of the range were added....one of my favorites features of this kitchen.
Design Details:
Cabinets- Wellborn - Bristol door style - bright white finish
Range hood- Fisher Paykel
Other appliances- JennAir
Tile- Interceramic
Lighting above Island- Restoration Hardware
Cherry & Taupe with One Unique Backsplash
This is another display in our showroom that I have been meaning to post about. We used cherry wood cabinetry with a toffee stain and taupe painted cabinetry with a brown glaze on the opposite side.
The coppery tones in the granite work perfectly with the cherry cabinets. I really love the way the colors complement eachother in this display.
I designed this piece to resemble an antique hutch. The cherry wood countertop matches the cherry cabinets and the taupe cabinets complement the travertine tile that we selected for the opposite side.
Here is a close up of the beautiful tile from Stafford Tile & Stone. We decided to lay the travertine diagonally and border it with a 1" x 2" glass tile. The tile is my favorite part of this display.
These photos are all a bit bright--due to the huge windows we have in our showroom. I cannot complain because I love working in natural light.
We are currently preparing for Mardi Gras here at Artisan. Last night we watched a parade pass right in front of our shop and have several more to view before the celebrations are over. It is fun to watch the city transform into party mode and to get to talk to all of the out of towners that keep popping in!
Mahogany and All of it's Splendor...
I have been a very bad blogger lately. With the holidays, our upcoming move, and work consuming most of my time, I just have not been able to spare a few minutes to focus on my blogs--until now! 
Today, I had the chance to visit a kitchen that I completed last year. I had not seen the lovely tile back splash yet and was eager to take pictures. Boy do I wish I had before pictures of this space. It was one unsightly room! We removed a large walk in pantry, which was where the range and cabinets on the far wall (in the above picture) are now. It also consisted of laminate countertops, a peninsula that took up far too much space, and very out-dated appliances.
My client's chose these beautiful African Mahogany Inset cabinets. The upper cabinets are a custom 4 feet tall. Can you imagine having all of that storage?
This is my favorite thing about the kitchen-- A custom Armoire/Refrigerator/ Pantry. The center cabinet is the refrigerator and the pantries are on either side. This kitchen will always be special to me. My client's encouraged me to use my imagination---my favorite type to work with (and they are also related to one of my co-workers.)A few things that I would have done differently:
1. I would have gone with a wood hood or a beautiful hood from Metallo Arts (too bad that I did not know about them then.)
2. I would have added an island in the center of the kitchen.
Overall, I am very proud of this kitchen!
The Doll House
The Doll House is a house in the French Quarter that I had the chance to work on a year ago. I recently posted on The Four Leaf Clover a few details and pictures about this wonderful little piece of history. Last Thursday the PRC (Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans) held an event at The Doll House-- as they do each month for select historic homes that are in the middle of a renovation.
The owners opted to leave the walls, fireplaces, and doors of this 1810 home in place, which allowed for a rather choppy kitchen design. The kitchen had a total of 5 doors and a large fireplace that I had to work around. I was actually happy that my client's chose to keep the existing layout. From day one, my client made it clear that she loved a furniture look, wanted stainless steel appliances, and wanted a large island with seating and open storage. I was thrilled when she found 3 beautiful antique hutches at a local urban salvage center. My job was to come up with an island that would house a 3 foot wide Wolf range, a dishwasher, and a sink. After doing several drawings, I came up with the perfect island! The pictures of the room are not the best--the space is so small and I was trying to snap shots around people moving in and out. The picture above shows the Wolf range with a 3"x 3" post on either side with open shelving. The dishwasher is beyond the shelving and the sink is on the opposite side of the range.
I love the antique pieces that she rescued and also the wood beams on the ceiling.
Here is the opposite side from the dishwasher. The white carrara marble overhangs about 9" and offers a place for seating. I love the open storage. (I am sure those shelves will be filled when they actually move in.)
Viewing the room from the copper sink, you can see the fireplace and another furniture piece in the background.
This is my favorite furniture piece. I think it would look nice with some bead board attached to the back too, maybe painted in a contrasting color.
Very old brick floors and a shiny new Wolf range--this space definitely mixes modern elements with the old.
This is the third antique piece which is obviously used as the bar. If you will, notice the wood beams in the mirror. My clients and I are very pleased with the end result in this kitchen. I have never been fond of just putting boxes on the walls and floor, and am certainly glad that that is not the case here. I am so happy for my clients. It would be a dream to have the opportunity to live in the French Quarter, especially in a place as beautiful as The Doll House.
The owners opted to leave the walls, fireplaces, and doors of this 1810 home in place, which allowed for a rather choppy kitchen design. The kitchen had a total of 5 doors and a large fireplace that I had to work around. I was actually happy that my client's chose to keep the existing layout. From day one, my client made it clear that she loved a furniture look, wanted stainless steel appliances, and wanted a large island with seating and open storage. I was thrilled when she found 3 beautiful antique hutches at a local urban salvage center. My job was to come up with an island that would house a 3 foot wide Wolf range, a dishwasher, and a sink. After doing several drawings, I came up with the perfect island! The pictures of the room are not the best--the space is so small and I was trying to snap shots around people moving in and out. The picture above shows the Wolf range with a 3"x 3" post on either side with open shelving. The dishwasher is beyond the shelving and the sink is on the opposite side of the range.
I love the antique pieces that she rescued and also the wood beams on the ceiling.
Here is the opposite side from the dishwasher. The white carrara marble overhangs about 9" and offers a place for seating. I love the open storage. (I am sure those shelves will be filled when they actually move in.)
Viewing the room from the copper sink, you can see the fireplace and another furniture piece in the background.
This is my favorite furniture piece. I think it would look nice with some bead board attached to the back too, maybe painted in a contrasting color. 
Very old brick floors and a shiny new Wolf range--this space definitely mixes modern elements with the old.
This is the third antique piece which is obviously used as the bar. If you will, notice the wood beams in the mirror. My clients and I are very pleased with the end result in this kitchen. I have never been fond of just putting boxes on the walls and floor, and am certainly glad that that is not the case here. I am so happy for my clients. It would be a dream to have the opportunity to live in the French Quarter, especially in a place as beautiful as The Doll House.
A Kitchen with more than just Cabinets on the Wall
I absolutely love this kitchen. I found the image a while ago while searching google images for some inspiration. Recently, while reading through The Kitchen Designer blog I realized that the author, Susan Serra, designed this kitchen. I am a new daily reader of The Kitchen Designer blog and was so happy to find that Susan designed this kitchen.
I love the classic painted white cabinet with the inset door and the integrated refrigerator section on the right. The wood countertops make the space warm and inviting. The marble on the island is the perfect contrast to the wood. I am most fond of the legs on the island. I have never come across a leg quite like this. I love the simpleness of it, but that it still has a bit of detail.
In Susan's blog entry, she states a few things that she would have done differently. She talks about how she proposed not to do the wall cabinets on either side of the hood. I totally agree with her on this. The hood and tile work are both so substantial, that the wall cabinets kind of take away from it...I think. She also writes that she would have used a natural stone instead of the subway tile. I love how truthful she was with her design differences from her client. This happens to me with every kitchen I design. Designers will always have different ideas from their clients. It is the converging of those ideas and the designer's ablilty to listen to their client that make the overall kitchen design a success.
Check out Susan's blog about this beautiful kitchen. Click here to see some incredible before and after photos.
I love the classic painted white cabinet with the inset door and the integrated refrigerator section on the right. The wood countertops make the space warm and inviting. The marble on the island is the perfect contrast to the wood. I am most fond of the legs on the island. I have never come across a leg quite like this. I love the simpleness of it, but that it still has a bit of detail. In Susan's blog entry, she states a few things that she would have done differently. She talks about how she proposed not to do the wall cabinets on either side of the hood. I totally agree with her on this. The hood and tile work are both so substantial, that the wall cabinets kind of take away from it...I think. She also writes that she would have used a natural stone instead of the subway tile. I love how truthful she was with her design differences from her client. This happens to me with every kitchen I design. Designers will always have different ideas from their clients. It is the converging of those ideas and the designer's ablilty to listen to their client that make the overall kitchen design a success.
Check out Susan's blog about this beautiful kitchen. Click here to see some incredible before and after photos.
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