Crammed into a dark corner of a Portland, Oregon Victorian home, this 70s era kitchen featured impossibly small counters, poor lighting, and ugly fake brick vinyl flooring. The transformation of this dim, dreary, and extremely dated space into a bright, modern dream kitchen is nothing short of astonishing.
When the homeowners decided to tackle this big remodeling job, they called upon the design firms ORANGEWALLstudios and Vanillawood. The top priorities were counter space, ample natural light, more storage, and a clean, simple design overall. To eliminate visual clutter, and banish the space's dark past, the designers settled on a primarily white palette to accentuate the family's great art collection and a statement pendant (not pictured). High gloss white Benjamin Moore porch paint coats the wooden floor, while the seamless expanse of white on the walls and vaulted ceiling accentuates its airiness. The addition of skylights and windows ensures that the space stays bright and cheerful, even on the rainiest Portland day.
The design effortlessly combines high and low, with Carrara marble counters sitting atop glossy white cabinets from Ikea. Sugatsune pulls dress up the cabinets and bright orange Marais stools from Design Within Reach punctuate the island, which serves as a cooking area (with a Viking stove), prep space, and gathering spot all in one. A stainless Hansgrohe faucet perches above a black Blanco composite sink. Chartreuse FLOR tiles, rather than a rug, protects the floor because the tiles do not slip, are easy to clean, and replaceable.The owners' cookbook collection, a trio of Jadeite bowls, and fresh flowers add pops of color and finish off the look.
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(Images: Ty Milford)
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wowwwwwwwwwwwwww. beautiful!
what is the cost for skylights like that?
WHOA!
wow!
WOWWWWWZA !!
Ok, I need to see before and after floor plans to understand "How" this changed.
Because best I can figure, this project completely "gutted" the area and flipped it.
I second Seamusdubh. I want to get a better feel for layout and not have the auto response of "wow, they have a lot of bucks and banged it out."
Great improvement but it feels like a sterile laboratory to me, it just doesn't look finished, a few small pops of color here and there but it still looks like it's waiting for the homeowner's personality to move in. The cabinet showing graduated bowls, in white, displayed in a white cabinet cracked me up!
Well...ANYthing would be an improvement but I agree...looks like a staged flip and too sterile. An accurate BEFORE & AFTER pic would be helpful...though I highly doubt it would change my opinon. Can you say *cookie cutter*? I did note this is a 'professional renovation'. Makes one wonder if you are implying by that, that no one lives here?
Not too shabby for a *flip* but seriously lacking and a bit sad if this is someone's home. Even for a 'staged' photo-shoot. I think I'll pass...
lovely, but I would never want a white floor. Unless I had a daily housekeeper, that is! Every spot of spilled sauce or crumb of bread would show. You would need to steam those floors three times a day.
The windows are great, though.
Um, we need more 'Before' Pictures to get a sense of how they got from A to B
What really misses on those picture is life. Simply life. Because, for the rest, it is perfect (!).
That can't be the same room. I really like that there aren't any "top cabinets"; I think that makes a kitchen look so clunky and old.
To see more of this project, see the article in Oregon Home at
http://oregonhomemagazine.com/homes/909-artful-victorian