I love this kitchen – if I do say so myself.
Almost finished… And it really is almost finished. Judy’s kitchen in her Inman Park cottage has turned out wonderfully. I love it when I can see something in my mind’s eye and then, like a negative in developing fluid, it begins to appear before my very eyes.
Judy has a huge collection of beautifully colored pottery bowls and folk art that will knock your socks off. Her her house looks like it has been there for years, when really her apartment in the house was an addition onto the rear of one of the large older homes. But because of the design of the house and her art collection, the new kitchen had to look like it had been there for years.
I was very flattered that Judy asked me to design and build her kitchen. She saw what I did with Danneman’s and said she thought that I might be able to give her a little different something. It was fun to do the design with her. The design itself was pretty easy but the materials and colors took a little time to nail down. We had so many pieces to decide on and we kept changing them around until it finally felt right.
It was little worrisome at first when I started layering colors. We chose to go with a orangy red beadboard wall with manilla colored shelving, a manilla colored beadboard wall, a mustard yellow Island and then greeny blue gray base cabinets. Judy was good with with all of it except when it came to the base cabinet color. I told her it had to be a greeny blue or a bluey green since those were the only choices that made sense. That made her a bit worried. She thought that color would be too much with everything else. But it actually is very soothing and grounds the room.
The Countertops of the base cabinets is Green Soapstone. It is really a dark gray with green gray veins that goes beautifully with the cabinet color.
I made these cute little curtains out of natural linen tea towel fabric with orangey red stripes that I got at Don Scott Antique Market. I also got the small blue cabinet there as well as the Corbells that we had built onto the Island.
Then after going around and around thinking about fabricating a zinc top for the Island, we decided to go with a honed White Venitino Marble.
Judy had a vent hood that was the type to go under a cabinet. It was pretty ugly and basic but worked fine. A new stainless steel vent hood looked too modern and shiny to me so we used the original vent for the vent mechanism and had a zinc hood cabinet built to go over it and hide the original one. We found a bit of decorative zinc to go across the front which helps give it that “been around awhile” feel.
I got the pots hung up on the rack today and I can’t wait for Judy to put her pottery collection on those shelves to see them against the red wall. All in all I am very pleased, in fact I just love this kitchen. See all photos and ideas for this kitchen on Flickr.
