This Maryland Pair’s Kitchen Got a Dreamy Modern Update

To make sure the areas all the time look their finest, Charles captured sq. footage from the carport and created a butler’s pantry that does double responsibility as an workplace. The slender swathe features a sink, a dishwasher, a fridge, and a secondary pantry, together with pocket doorways, to cover any mess. “Within the night, we sit in the lounge and look throughout the attractive, open house,” the proprietor says. “This kitchen has made our lives simpler.”

Kitchen location: Chevy Chase, Maryland, simply exterior Washington, D.C.

The earlier than: The kitchen was self-contained relatively than built-in with the residing and eating areas. “We may see the potential for all of it being a big, open house, although it took a really massive piece of metal to attain it,” the proprietor says.

The inspiration: A blue, white, and rustic wooden kitchen designed by Blakes London.

Sq. footage: The kitchen itself is about 320 sq. toes and the pantry is 150 sq. toes.

Funds: “That is the home we’ll spend the remainder of our lives in, so we allowed ourselves to spend cash on the issues we actually wished, on the primary flooring,” the home-owner says.

Most important components

Cupboards: The bottom cupboards are quarter-sawn pink oak with a customized, whitewash glaze for a country impact. The towers are painted in Hale Navy by Benjamin Moore, as are the glass-front higher cupboards. “Not having uppers appears to be like fairly, however appears very impractical,” the proprietor says. “All I feel after I see open shelving is mud. I like issues put away and tidy.”

{Hardware}: To keep up clear strains, the workforce opted for push latch doorways on the bottom cupboards, which the proprietor acknowledges took some getting used to. The others sport Emtek knobs and pulls with a brushed nickel end. “Brass spoke to me as being method too fashionable,” the proprietor says. “I wished it to be timeless.”