Curved Peninsula Kitchen Refresh

Project Specs

About This Kitchen

This West Chester kitchen had good bones and a smart U-shaped layout, but it was buried under honey-oak cabinets, dark beige counters, and raised-panel doors that made the whole room read closed-in. The homeowner did not want to move walls. She wanted the same footprint to finally feel light.

So we kept the layout and rebuilt it in white. Tribeca cabinetry in Hudson Cloud White replaced the oak — including the glass-front uppers carried over in the new color and a custom glass-door cabinet over the peninsula. Vicostone Beryl quartz, a soft marble-look, went over everything, and a Roca subway backsplash brightened the work zone.

The peninsula was the piece worth saving. We rebuilt its sculpted radius end and the open display shelves that wrap around it, so the one real architectural flourish in the room came back sharper than before. A soft Sherwin-Williams Sleepy Hollow green on the walls keeps the white from going cold.

The lighting did as much work as the cabinets. Under-cabinet LED tape in a frosted aluminum channel, plus new recessed fixtures on dimmers, fixed what every older kitchen like this suffers from — it was badly under-lit. Keeping the existing soffits and tile floor — instead of tearing them out — held the budget in the low forties without cutting anything that shows.

What we tell clients whose layout already works: do not pay to move walls you like. Put the money into the surfaces and the lighting — that is what you actually live with every day.

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