I designed and built this rustic but refined custom kitchen for my wife’s 40th birthday.The kitchen has a footprint of approximately 16×24 and is part of a 24×48 addition that I added to our Cape-style house.All of the custom cabinets are cherry with continuous face frames and dovetail drawers throughout.The countertops are granite, the sinks stainless steel.We went with all Electrolux appliances with the exception of the hood (Vent-a-Hood) and microwave.The tile is ceramic with radiant heat below and the backsplash and accent tops are Pennsylvania bluestone.The booth table is from a slab of highly figured maple.The handles for all of the cabinets and the light fixtures are harvested from cedar trees that grew in our back yard.The roof trusses are rough-sawn Eastern white pine timber frames with tongue and groove western red cedar for the ceiling.Pull-outs, step ups, stone cabinets, and an electronic sound system lift are incorporated into the design.
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Breakfast booth with 48" pull outs with indexed dividers. The table top a highly figured maple slab.
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By pushing either the top or bottom of the knot on the face frame (shown in the far right of picture 2), the stone trivet with the candles on it goes up or down, revealing a 300W sound bar (subwoofer is the brown panel at the bottom in picture 2).
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The stone separator cabinet between the new kitchen and the dining room (formerly the kitchen) hides a small liquor cabinet. The door weighs in around 150 lbs and rides on custom hinges.
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A view from the loft overlooking the kitchen. The 18' high ceiling is covered with western red cedar and the timber frames are rough sawn eastern white pine. The entire front wall is windows which look out to the water.
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Overall view of the kitchen.
