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Metal mesh inserts are a great middle ground, giving a slight peek at what’s inside the cabinet but without putting your stored goods on full display.I’ve used mesh inserts instead of glass on many recent projects. It works beautifully in both traditional homes and contemporary designs with some transitional flair, bringing a slight sense of old-world charm.Consider using mesh inserts on the “upper-upper” cabinets in a tall space on a full pantry wall …
Cabinets: The cabinets are classic Shaker style with a beaded inset. Glass doors on the upper cabinets keep this side of the kitchen looking lighter and more open. The cabinets have stained oak interiors that add warmth to the room. Countertops and backsplash: These elements add strong contrast to the cabinetry’s dark color. The countertops are Carrara marble. The backsplash tiles are elongated subway tiles. “These are hand-painted terra-cotta tiles, which means they have a watery, uneven finish,” Zaveloff says. This adds age and patina to the new kitchen that suits the almost 100-year-old home.
After: The new interior is streamlined, warm and contemporary. The designer was already familiar with these clients and their home as she had worked on their kitchen renovation a few years before. “We had used flat-panel maple cabinetry in the kitchen, so I wanted to use it in here for continuity through the house,” she says. Because one of the homeowners was a geologist, she used three different natural stones — one for each of the three bathrooms in the home. This one scored statuario marble. (The second bath has limestone, and the third has travertine.)Commode: This bathroom backs up to the en suite bath, so Ozipko created a pony wall behind the toilet to create a space for the tank to hide while preserving the existing plumbing. “This created a nice ledge above it,” she says. It also created a streamlined space for a cabinet overhead. Toilet: Starck 3, Duravit; see wall-mounted toilets
After. A clean, streamlined design by Susan Ozipko of sO Interiors gives the couple function and storage in a small space. The new features, such as the floating toilet and vanity, sit against a wall of statuario marble tiles. The homeowners replaced the tub-shower combo with a glass-doored shower. Toilet: Starck 3, Duravit; wall tile: Ciot; faucet: Delta; counter: Caesarstone; pendants: Tech LightingRead more about this bathroom remodel | Find bathroom designers near you
On One End of the Main CabinetsWhen using stock prefabricated cabinetry in a kitchen, oftentimes the available cabinet sizes won’t add up to perfectly fill a wall 100 percent. Rather than leaving these last precious inches unused, consider having a small, shallow custom cabinet added to one end (on the side of another cabinet) to act as a compact pantry.Shelves only a few inches deep may not have many uses outside the kitchen or bathroom, but here they’re great for storing spices, bottles, jars and other petite containers, all within easy reach.Find a cabinet maker to help with a custom order
One downside of this solution that should be noted is the loss of some counter space, compared to using standard upper and lower cabinets with a stretch of counter between. However, using a tall full-depth cabinet provides a great deal more storage capacity and gives the kitchen a weighty and mature air. Plus, it gives you more surface area to paint in a rich hue if you so choose.If you have a nearby island to act as prep space, losing a little counter may be well worth the trade-off.
For a more traditional look, a relatively small bit of construction can convert a typical doored closet into a niche for a pantry cabinet — either a custom-sized unit or a few prefab cabinets with slim filler panels on the ends to give a seamless look.Consider giving this pantry cabinet its own finish (like the beautiful soft blue-gray pictured here) to act as an accent. This is also a clever way to avoid having to match a newly added pantry to existing cabinets.7 Sophisticated Blues for Your Kitchen Cabinets
MAIN: built in with paint above mantel
MAIN: tile and cabinet
Main: Chrome and chunky handles?
main: kitchen faucet Grohe concetto
main: gray cabinet with chrome hardware and white counter
MAIN: doors
Main: chunky handles
MAIN: cabinet colour and counter
main: cabinet colour with handle
main: kitchen colours (gray, white) with chrome
main: dark cupboard with light counter and side shelf
MAIN: cabinet colour, hardware colour (not style) and window colour
kitchen colours (but counter should be white grey)
main: love colour
main: lights and counter
main: darker kitchen counter? like less
main: chrome appliance, dark handle
main: chrome appliance, dark handles, kitchen cabinet colour and white tiles. This is our kitchen!
main: counter and window hardware
main: cubbie in kitchen
Main: kitchen cubbie
main under sink
main: pot rack and counter and tile
Main: drawers LOVE at our last place too
our sink
main: two of these in the kitchen
main: love this pantry
MAIN: back of breakfast bar
main: breakfast bar
main: breakfast bar
MAIN: breakfast bar and kitchen ceiling
Main: wood cabinets?
main: casing?
main: island
main: island
Garden layout
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