Kitchen Spotlight: Classic Modern (+ Gorgeous Cabinets)

This kitchen is part of a classic mid-century home in Kansas - a Donald Drummond home designed by architect David B. Runnels. It was built in 1951 and lovingly, diligently restored by its new owners over the last several years. The kitchen is especially impressive - we'd love to throw a cocktail party here!

• We love how open this kitchen is - open to the outdoors through that bank of windows, open to the dining table, and open to the rest of the house.

• Such a unique layout - with the living area above! It's a great space for entertaining.

• We're having serious envy over all those drawers!

• The counter was kept carefully neutral so the woodwork could stand out.

• Here you can see the ridiculous amount of clean, classic storage - we love the open shelves above the drawers!

• Note how the toaster and microwave are stowed below the counters and out of the line of sight. This kitchen also has great lighting from both windows and warm ceiling lamps.

• The table is original to the house and purchased from the original owners.

• See the whole house tour here: House Tour: The Foster's Drummond Dream Home at AT: Chicago

(Images: Sarahrae)

it's a very nice kitchen, but the graining is very distracting, and looks to me like it was designed without a designer or cabinetmaker's input.

For example, the passageway end of the bar counter has very (!) wild graining, which doesn't match any other graining... none of the graining is matched on the drawers, which would have been very easy for a cabinetmaker to do... although convention states that drawer grains run horizontally and doors and panels vertically, given the number of the drawers in this case, it would have looked less jarring and more elegant if the grain were oriented in the same way, either all horizontal or all vertical. Just too busy...

posted by mschatelaine on September 15th 2008 at 4:36am
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