This colorful kitchen combines two specialty paint finishes to create a warm, inviting French Country design.
A generous island and peninsula provide a limitless expanse of counter space for meal preparation and serve as
a buffet for frequent entertaining.
Most of the time we’ll do an island with lots of corbels, fluted posts and onlays, and put a different color on the island
to highlight the details. It becomes our showpiece, our highlight.
Style: Modern/Contemporary
Materials and Components
Oak Cabinets, Marble Countertop, Flooring by Capella, Moen Medora line Faucets, Whirlpool 24.5 Cu. Ft. Side-by-Side
Refrigerator
Designer: Sean Kearins
Kitchen Styles
You have the freedom to pick and choose between hundreds of cabinets, countertops, range hoods, and pot racks
in order to create your own unique kitchen. However, if you're not sure where to begin or do not know how various appliances
and furnishings work in accordance with one another, pictures of existing kitchen styles can be a great source of ideas.
Within each style, home owners have incredible freedom to personalize their settings.
There is not just one pot rack, for example, that must be used in a rustic kitchen.
Contemporary
The style of cabinet you choose will give personality and a specific atmosphere to your home.
Cabinet style will also affect the cost of your project. The more details (i.e. cuts, bevels, beads), the higher your final cost will be.
European
With european style cabinets full overlay doors conceal most of the cabinet frame or box.
Sometimes frameless box construction is used ( meaning cabinets that have no face frame like traditional American cabinets).
Hinging is usually concealed. Solid panel doors with vertical grained wood is often used.
This look may include higher toe kick area, or perhaps no kick panel with the cabinets raised off the floor leaving six to twelve
inches of open space beneath.
French Contemporary
Attached pediments and ornimental millwork including elegant corbels,
furniture feet, and curling molding at crown and toe are characteristic in creating this look.
Rich wood hoes and warm glazed paint add a tastefull appeal.
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