A renovation that felt like a remodel. Same walls, entirely different house.
Four hundred and thirty Marin kitchens.
Every one started as somebody's least favourite room. Drag the sliders — and notice that the interesting change is almost never the colour.
Larkspur · 11 weeks
The Bellamy family.
A 1979 kitchen sealed off from the rest of the house by a peninsula three people could not pass. We took the wall to the family room and built white oak cabinetry to the ceiling.
BeforeAfter
Wall opened to family room · White oak inset cabinetry · Honed quartz · Two working parents, three children
Tiburon · 9 weeks
The Ashworth family.
Heavy timber and granite that made a bright hillside house feel like a basement. The plan was sound, so this one is a renovation — everything you touch changed, nothing you walk around did.
BeforeAfter
Same footprint · Inset shaker in Farrow & Ball Slipper Satin · Farmhouse sink · Aged brass
More kitchens
Six from the last two years.
Different houses, different budgets, same question answered first: how does this family actually live?
Four stools, because four children. The island was sized to the family, not the room.
The storage plan was the whole project. Counters have stayed clear for two years.
We moved one window and the whole room changed character.
A table that seats nine, because Sunday lunch is non-negotiable in that house.
Sightlines from the range to the sofa, so nobody cooks alone any more.
In their words
"We cooked at home every night except two."
The Bellamys filmed this six months after moving back into their kitchen. Nobody from our studio was in the room.
Next step
Yours is the next one on this page.
Ninety minutes at your table, free, with a written range you keep either way.