Little Kitchen: The little kitchen is one of the most-used rooms in any household. That's why if you are going to renovate your little kitchen, you need a plan designed for all its uses. There's no better way to get inspiration for a little kitchen renovation than to visit recently renovated little kitchens and get some ideas for your own.
Five state-of-the-art little kitchens will be on display Sunday in the Pasadena little kitchens & Interiors tour.
To increase storage for little kitchen supplies and implements, the designer "stole" space from the rooms behind the little kitchen. In keeping with the home's Spanish heritage, all pullout storage cabinets look like doors. Now the little kitchen area is functional and beautiful while in harmony with the original Spanish design of the home.See Also Functional Kitchen With Plenty:This is a smart, functional kitchen with plenty of space for eating, cooking and relaxing. The soft colour scheme is easy to live with but fresh and contemporary, while the open shelving creates room to have favourite pieces on show.
The design challenge for Janie Fain of JF Interiors when she remodeled the kitchen area of a 1932 San Marino Spanish Revival home was to create a functional area from the small, dark kitchen that desperately needed updating. The owners love to cook, and Fain needed to find new storage space as well as make the entire kitchen area more inviting.
On The Other Hand See Create A Kitchen:"The kitchen is usually the first room a homeowner wants to remodel," explained Christine Santana, president of the Pasadena chapter of ASID. A well-designed kitchen improvement can add thousands of dollars to a home's value; most of the cost can be recouped at sale, according to ASID members.
One of the tour homes, a 1941 ranch-style home in the Linda Vista
area, was completely updated by Michele Hughes for a young professional couple. After the remodeling, all that was left of the original kitchen were exterior walls and foundation. A marble-topped chef's Table now forms the centerpiece of the newly designed kitchen. Textured beams added to the ceiling create a kitchen a feeling of coziness along with a color scheme that unifies the house and garden. Two rooms of the house have been adapted as work areas and feature sophisticated storage spaces with custom cabinetry.
A long window takes up one Wall of this kitchen, flooding it with light. To make the most of this, the walls are painted a soft, off-white shade, which also helps create a kitchen a sense of space in what is a fairly compact kitchen. White units further increase the airy feel while soft green mosaics with a border of black make a chic splashback with colour that warms up the room. Vinyl Flooring in a dark, slate grey ties in with the black mosaic and anchors the whole scheme.
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