The kitchen in this 1886 home needed a lot of love. It had one existing wall of original cabinets, two different ceiling heights (8’ and 7’) as well as a sloped down floor leading to a room that presumably at one point was added on. The small mud room opened up right into the work space of the kitchen creating an obstacle.

But what designer does not like a challenge, huh?!

Fortunately, the homeowner had been collecting ideas and dreaming about this kitchen for quite some time, so we had a wonderful aesthetic foundation to work from. She also loved new ideas and thinking outside the box, so all in all, it couldn’t have been more of a dream project. The biggest challenge was where to put the stunning French stove that was to be the focal point of the space. I would have loved to have it in the 8’ ceiling area but truly there wasn’t room unless we moved the sink, but who doesn’t want their sink under a window…it was too perfect to keep it there. In the end we put it in the 7’ high area, and it worked beautifully.

Now the homeowner has a small island behind and lots of countertop space and storage in that area to work. The mud room now is sans door, and has became part of the kitchen as a whole instead of a separate room.