New This Week: 3 Knockout Kitchens With Natural Wood Cabinets
Whether light and breezy or rich and moody, these wood-rich kitchens might make you rethink painted cabinets
Other special features. Embossed light gray concrete backsplash in the same color as the concrete countertops. Concrete floors. Custom blown-glass pendants. Stainless steel countertops on both sides of the range.
Designer secret. “Healdsburg gets very hot in the summer, and the clients wanted a serene and cool environment with very little color but that did not feel cold,” Juestel says. “So we mixed warm and cool materials, and used the fresh green of the leaves and vines in the vineyard as the fresh accent color.”
Custom countertops and backsplash: Bohemian Stoneworks; Precision collection sinks: Blanco; contemporary pull-down faucets and Parche instant hot faucet: Waterstone; Erik Buch-style stools in custom finish: Inmod; Dakar leather stool upholstery: Green Hides; custom pendant lights: Adeeni Design Group; appliances: Thermador; solid bronze T pulls in light bronze: Ashley Norton
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Designer secret. “Healdsburg gets very hot in the summer, and the clients wanted a serene and cool environment with very little color but that did not feel cold,” Juestel says. “So we mixed warm and cool materials, and used the fresh green of the leaves and vines in the vineyard as the fresh accent color.”
Custom countertops and backsplash: Bohemian Stoneworks; Precision collection sinks: Blanco; contemporary pull-down faucets and Parche instant hot faucet: Waterstone; Erik Buch-style stools in custom finish: Inmod; Dakar leather stool upholstery: Green Hides; custom pendant lights: Adeeni Design Group; appliances: Thermador; solid bronze T pulls in light bronze: Ashley Norton
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2. Light Contemporary
Designer: Brandon Lange of BZ Interiors
Location: Toronto
Size: 225 square feet (20.9 square meters)
Homeowners’ request. Update a small row house kitchen to include more storage, an island, a breakfast bar, modern appliances and more natural light.
Cabinets. Flat-panel rift-cut white oak with a natural stain. “We debated incorporating some white painted upper cabinets, but instead went with an all-wood look to achieve a more streamlined look,” says designer Brandon Lange.
Other special features. Antique brass handles. Bianco Carrara marble slab backsplashes and countertops. Stainless steel floating shelf above the breakfast bar to tie in with the modern stainless steel appliances. Oversize black drum pendants.
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Designer: Brandon Lange of BZ Interiors
Location: Toronto
Size: 225 square feet (20.9 square meters)
Homeowners’ request. Update a small row house kitchen to include more storage, an island, a breakfast bar, modern appliances and more natural light.
Cabinets. Flat-panel rift-cut white oak with a natural stain. “We debated incorporating some white painted upper cabinets, but instead went with an all-wood look to achieve a more streamlined look,” says designer Brandon Lange.
Other special features. Antique brass handles. Bianco Carrara marble slab backsplashes and countertops. Stainless steel floating shelf above the breakfast bar to tie in with the modern stainless steel appliances. Oversize black drum pendants.
Get a guide to choosing kitchen cabinets | Find oversize black drum pendants
Designer secret. “The biggest thing we did to improve the space was include the patio doors at the back,” Lange says. “Otherwise the room would have felt very dark, and the feeling of the kitchen would be totally different.”
“Uh-oh” moment. “Because this home was divided into several apartments before we began construction, and also featured a very poor addition at the back, we had a very challenging issue with two different ceiling heights, which landed directly above the kitchen,” Lange says. “Thankfully, we were able to come up with a solution involving our contractor and some engineering that allowed us to maintain one uniform ceiling height. Otherwise things would have looked very odd.”
Cabinetry: BL Woodworking; hardware: Lee Valley; countertops and backsplashes: Olympia Tile; appliances: Tasco Appliances; stainless steel shelf: Perfect Stainless; counter stools: Elte Market; pendant lights: Dainolite; find oversize black drum pendants
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“Uh-oh” moment. “Because this home was divided into several apartments before we began construction, and also featured a very poor addition at the back, we had a very challenging issue with two different ceiling heights, which landed directly above the kitchen,” Lange says. “Thankfully, we were able to come up with a solution involving our contractor and some engineering that allowed us to maintain one uniform ceiling height. Otherwise things would have looked very odd.”
Cabinetry: BL Woodworking; hardware: Lee Valley; countertops and backsplashes: Olympia Tile; appliances: Tasco Appliances; stainless steel shelf: Perfect Stainless; counter stools: Elte Market; pendant lights: Dainolite; find oversize black drum pendants
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3. Midcentury Midtone
Designer: Lisa Knemeyer Skiles of Skiles Architect
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Size: 183 square feet (17 square meters)
Homeowners’ request. “The kitchen needed to be both functional and one that we would want to live in, as it’s part of the open-concept main space of the home,” says homeowner Ashley Bailey. “As someone who loves to look at the everyday as art, I wanted to be able to enjoy the Russel Wright pottery I was handed down from my grandmother and great-grandmother.”
Cabinets. Custom riff-cut white oak with a tight, straight and even vertical grain. “The warm wood tone and even pattern complemented the modern interior,” says designer Lisa Knemeyer Skiles. “The color also played well with the crisp white walls and counters.”
Other special features. Open shelves for displaying a vintage dishware collection. Green patterned tile backsplash over the range. Polished concrete floors featuring a special mixture of river gravel aggregate. White oak butcher block island countertop that drops down to table height for a main dining area. Counter-depth refrigerator. Island shelves for storing and displaying cookbooks and objects. George Nelson-designed Bubble pendant light.
Furnishings: 410 Vintage Market; Snow Storm quartz countertops: Viatera; Modern Dimensions series backsplash tile in matte white: Daltile; Angela Adams-Forms backsplash tile (over stove): Ann Sacks; butcher block: Lumber Liquidators; Vault collection sink: Kohler; Trinsic collection faucet: Delta; appliances: Viking; cabinets: Justus Cabinet Shop; project photography: Nancy Nolan Photography
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Designer: Lisa Knemeyer Skiles of Skiles Architect
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Size: 183 square feet (17 square meters)
Homeowners’ request. “The kitchen needed to be both functional and one that we would want to live in, as it’s part of the open-concept main space of the home,” says homeowner Ashley Bailey. “As someone who loves to look at the everyday as art, I wanted to be able to enjoy the Russel Wright pottery I was handed down from my grandmother and great-grandmother.”
Cabinets. Custom riff-cut white oak with a tight, straight and even vertical grain. “The warm wood tone and even pattern complemented the modern interior,” says designer Lisa Knemeyer Skiles. “The color also played well with the crisp white walls and counters.”
Other special features. Open shelves for displaying a vintage dishware collection. Green patterned tile backsplash over the range. Polished concrete floors featuring a special mixture of river gravel aggregate. White oak butcher block island countertop that drops down to table height for a main dining area. Counter-depth refrigerator. Island shelves for storing and displaying cookbooks and objects. George Nelson-designed Bubble pendant light.
Furnishings: 410 Vintage Market; Snow Storm quartz countertops: Viatera; Modern Dimensions series backsplash tile in matte white: Daltile; Angela Adams-Forms backsplash tile (over stove): Ann Sacks; butcher block: Lumber Liquidators; Vault collection sink: Kohler; Trinsic collection faucet: Delta; appliances: Viking; cabinets: Justus Cabinet Shop; project photography: Nancy Nolan Photography
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Designers: Claudia Juestel of Adeeni Design Group (interior design) and Sutro Architects
Location: Healdsburg, California
Size: 200 square feet (18.6 square meters); 10 by 20 feet (about 3 by 6 meters)
Homeowners’ request. For this new-construction home, the owners wanted a “clean, modern look within a sustainable design,” says interior designer Claudia Juestel. Fewer materials and easy maintenance were additional goals.
Cabinets. Walnut. “We selected the walnut to add warmth to the cool tones of the concrete and crisp white gallery walls, and liked the beautiful figuring to soften the clean lines,” Juestel says.