A Blend of Rustic and Contemporary Design


O’Brien Harris LLC
Photography by Cynthia Lynn Kim

Kitchen Area at a Look
Who lives here:
A household
Area: Hinsdale, Illinois
Size: 275 square feet (26 square meters); 12 1/2 by 22 feet
Designers: Laura O’Brien of O’Brien Harris (kitchen area style) and Minute Style (architecture)
Home Builder: Julie Laux of J Jordan House

This house was a brand-new construct, and O’Brien worked together with home builder Julie Laux on the style. The objective was to develop a cooking area that cooks would like which would work well for events. “The lot sizes here are little, so we needed to exercise a reasonably compact layout,” O’Brien states. “This implied that the kitchen area would be completely open up to the living room.” About 275 square feet was designated for the kitchen area, and O’Brien took advantage of it.

This is the view from the living room. “The method was to incorporate the kitchen area into the architecture, due to the fact that it is entirely within view of the living room. The style of this wall was driven by this openness,” O’Brien states. A tip of farmhouse fond memories motivated the white oak cabinets, while the tidy lines and modern lighting offer a streamlined appearance.

The designer desired the window wall to appear like a paneled wall, so for the cabinets she utilized kerfed wood, which has grooves that make it appear like paneling. She concealed the refrigerator behind the kerfed wood on the left; a kitchen cabinet is on the right. The middle of the kitchen cabinet consists of 2 home appliance garages– those doors turn up.

” I likewise required to play down the vent hood and I felt that utilizing wood on it would make it too large,” O’Brien states. “Utilizing the streamlined stainless-steel makes it fade into the background, putting the concentrate on the windows.”

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