New This Week: Try This Kitchen Combo for Instant Farmhouse Style
Paint your cabinets blue or blue-green, add some raw wood accents and you’ve got a classic look
2. Light Blue Cabinets + Hand-Hewn Beams
Designer: Aaron Flint (in collaboration with the homeowners)
Location: Waterbury, Vermont
Size: 275 square feet (25.5 square meters)
Homeowners’ request. Renovate an original farmhouse for a more modern-day feel with an open floor plan and better functionality, while still paying homage to the original structure.
Farmhouse-style combo. Blue cabinets (Benjamin Moore’s Van Courtland Blue), hand-hewn 200-year-old timber beams and shelves made from reclaimed wall boards from the original house.
Other special feature. Views of hundreds of acres of pastureland and hayfields.
Lower cabinets: Pomerantz Woodworking
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Designer: Aaron Flint (in collaboration with the homeowners)
Location: Waterbury, Vermont
Size: 275 square feet (25.5 square meters)
Homeowners’ request. Renovate an original farmhouse for a more modern-day feel with an open floor plan and better functionality, while still paying homage to the original structure.
Farmhouse-style combo. Blue cabinets (Benjamin Moore’s Van Courtland Blue), hand-hewn 200-year-old timber beams and shelves made from reclaimed wall boards from the original house.
Other special feature. Views of hundreds of acres of pastureland and hayfields.
Lower cabinets: Pomerantz Woodworking
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3. Blue-Gray Cabinets + Douglas Fir Shelves and Floor
Designers: Jobie Mallett and Patty Kantymir of Little Star Renovations
Location: North Vancouver
Size: 156 square feet (14.4 square meters); 13 by 12 feet (3.9 by 3.6 meters)
Homeowners’ request. “The client always wanted a house that was an art piece built from the inspirations of his life,” designer Jobie Mallett says. “He wanted a house with emotion that expresses itself the way he expresses himself and gives a feeling of belonging.”
Farmhouse-style combo. Blue-gray cabinets (Benjamin Moore’s Gentleman’s Gray) and Douglas fir floors and floating shelves.
Other special features. Rustic brick chimney. Concrete countertops inlaid with “found treasures” from the homeowner. Shaker-style doors. Brass hardware. Apron-front sink. Recessed lights in the shelving.
Designer secret. “Paramount to both the client and designer was not to lose the history of the grand home while modernizing the space,” Mallett says. “The key is to retain old details, like the butler’s door, while mixing [them] with new materials, such as the concrete counter inlaid with found treasures from the client.”
“Uh-oh” moment. “Originally the client had assumed he wanted typical enclosed upper cabinets,” Mallett says. “As we worked through 3D renders, we all realized how heavy and enclosed the space looked. We threw out that design, added a skylight and went for the attractive solid-wood shelf design.”
Custom cabinets: Little Star Renovations; Oxford series white backsplash tile in crackle finish, 4 by 20 inches: Olympia Tile; Hawthorne apron-front sink: Kohler
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Designers: Jobie Mallett and Patty Kantymir of Little Star Renovations
Location: North Vancouver
Size: 156 square feet (14.4 square meters); 13 by 12 feet (3.9 by 3.6 meters)
Homeowners’ request. “The client always wanted a house that was an art piece built from the inspirations of his life,” designer Jobie Mallett says. “He wanted a house with emotion that expresses itself the way he expresses himself and gives a feeling of belonging.”
Farmhouse-style combo. Blue-gray cabinets (Benjamin Moore’s Gentleman’s Gray) and Douglas fir floors and floating shelves.
Other special features. Rustic brick chimney. Concrete countertops inlaid with “found treasures” from the homeowner. Shaker-style doors. Brass hardware. Apron-front sink. Recessed lights in the shelving.
Designer secret. “Paramount to both the client and designer was not to lose the history of the grand home while modernizing the space,” Mallett says. “The key is to retain old details, like the butler’s door, while mixing [them] with new materials, such as the concrete counter inlaid with found treasures from the client.”
“Uh-oh” moment. “Originally the client had assumed he wanted typical enclosed upper cabinets,” Mallett says. “As we worked through 3D renders, we all realized how heavy and enclosed the space looked. We threw out that design, added a skylight and went for the attractive solid-wood shelf design.”
Custom cabinets: Little Star Renovations; Oxford series white backsplash tile in crackle finish, 4 by 20 inches: Olympia Tile; Hawthorne apron-front sink: Kohler
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Designer: David Bowen of Salisbury Artisans
Location: Litchfield County, Connecticut
Size: 142 square feet (13.1 square meters); 10½ by 13½ feet (3.2 by 4.1 meters)
Homeowners’ request. “The beautiful all-wood interior of this log cabin home deserved a kitchen on par with its clean spaces and fabulous view,” designer David Bowen says. “The family’s active lives [and] love of cooking, vegetable gardening and interior aesthetics informed the design in every way.”
Farmhouse-style combo. Blue-green cabinets (Benjamin Moore’s Garden Path), wood walls and ceiling, and stained maple island.
Other special features. Shaker-style cabinets. Bronze hardware. Aga range. Soapstone countertops with integrated sink.
Designer secret. “‘Less is more’ is overused, but in this case, it became apparent,” Bowen says. “The owners’ desire for symmetry using the Aga range allowed me to fill wall to wall without connecting a corner cabinet to the adjacent wall. The restrained amount of remaining cabinetry made the entire kitchen look more spacious.”
“Uh-oh” moment. “When the cabinets were first painted, we witnessed the pleasant surprise of complicated colors,” Bowen says. “The adjacent great room’s wall of windows brings in the blue of the wide-open sky. As a result, the base cabinets facing those windows look blue-green on sunny days, while the range wall looks green-blue. Both colors are totally lovely and consistent with an unfitted English country kitchen. The owner totally embraced this phenomenon, saying, ‘When the sink cabinets are blue-green, I know it’s a lovely day.’”
Legacy range, 44 inches: Aga; bronze hardware: Alno; “Hills and Cows” art (above sink): Altoon Sultan
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