Kitchen for a Home Chef
in Pacific Heights

Challenge

Create a chef-worthy kitchen with maximum storage and top notch appliances while saving the period charm of this classic 1930s Pacific Heights kitchen

Solution

• Extend new cabinets into the breakfast room for storage and display of the client’s colorful Italian Deruta Pottery collection.
• Update the sunny breakfast area with mid-century classics, a Saarinen tulip table topped with Carrara marble and leather executive chairs from Knoll.
• Keep the charm by leaving the lovely sheer window shade, the original arch into the breakfast room and the two shallow closets used for cookbooks and stemware.
• Frame the new Wolf Range with cabinets that hide the powerful hood, and cooking tools while keeping them close at hand for this avid cook.
• Install a deep stainless sink, sleek faucet and Asko dishwasher for easy cleanup.
• Inject a Sub Zero Refrigerator that fills the space.
• Design a blank wall for the 21st Century by adding a flat screen television above the restored hatch to the original incinerator, which is still used for waste disposal.
• Keep the look minimal by extending the Caesarstone countertop up the wall as backsplash and placing the electrical outlets up under the cabinets.
• Warm the space by refinishing the original wood floors and adding a runner from Serena & Lily made of indoor/outdoor fabric.
• Update the ceiling lights to LED and keep the existing Sonos sound system.