Dramatic Granite Kitchen Remodel

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About This Kitchen

In our experience, the kitchens with the most upside are the ones people have stopped seeing. This Chester Springs kitchen had been lived in for years behind almond cabinets, a dropped soffit, and a single run of track lighting that left the counters in shadow. The layout worked; the finishes had quit.

We kept what was worth keeping. The tile floor was in good shape and the bumped-out garden window over the sink brought in real light, so we protected both through demo and built the new kitchen around them. Everything else came out — cabinets, soffits, track lighting, and the old appliances.

The new cabinetry is Shiloh in a raised-panel door, finished in a custom Sherwin-Williams color and run to the ceiling with crown. We topped it with a heavily veined granite that does most of the talking, across the island and along the window wall. Recessed lighting, under-cabinet lighting on dimmers, and the existing skylight now give the room even light from morning to night. We also added ducting to vent the microwave to the exterior — a small thing most pull-and-replace jobs skip, and something you notice every time you cook.

What we tell our clients: removing a soffit and keeping a good floor are the two moves that make a kitchen feel new without paying to move a single wall.

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