The best is yet to come and won’t it be fine (art).
Armed with an inspiration binder the size of an encyclopedia, my new client showed me every detail of the kitchen she’d been dreaming of for years. Now that she had purchased a new home in which it might fit, could I please make it so?
Rarely having a client with such preconceived and complete plans, my main contributions were space planning, fine detail and millwork design to make sure it was all executed properly and in good taste. In designing the millwork and cabinetry, detail was minimal but customized. The color was soft and neutral, and the texture was simple and understated. The main contrast came from the warm wood floors that ran throughout the home and grounded the entire space.
Using only drawers in base cabinets meant everything would come to her and no longer would she be on her hands and knees searching for a pot lid.
Once installed and completed, this sublime space was ready for a photographer. For staging the shots, I chose an unhung painting for the mantle hood from the homeowner’s own art collection. An unexpected and nearly perfect complement to the whole room, I would soon learn that a newly deceased relative had painted it for her years ago and it had never found the perfect locationuntil now.
Perhaps she had been unknowingly thinking of that painting all along, but in designing a room where they would surely create many new memories, we also left a spot for the past and fuel for the soul, which only good art can provide.