Hi Looking at your living area I would think a European style kitchen would look best. Definitely straighten the curve. I wouldn't put glossy white and beige together but I would put lowers in a wood look and uppers in a glossy white.

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@Kim C Thank you so much. Do you think the current floors will work with the European style cabinets?

@JAN MOYER By flooring issue you mean that the floors wont work with the European style kitchen?

I say get a designer. Because white quartz with gray veining will be a disaster with the EXISTING flooring. You need on site help for the entire space. AALL of it.

@JAN MOYER what if i add luxury vinyl planks ( light gray or the white wash oak color) on top of my existing floors?

thanks

To answer your cabinetry question, it depends on your home’s architectural style (not just your furniture style). Just my opinion...slab with full overlay are a classic look, European especially if no visible hardware, Transitional if “C” style hardware, Contemporary or MCM if shiny laminate, and showstopper if natural finish in exotic wood grain. Shaker cabs look farmhouse/coastal or Transitional. Frame cabs look Traditional. Cabs with arches look dated. If the cab boxes are in excellent condition, consider just replacing the doors and drawers to save money.

To answer your second question, I wonder if a flooring pro (not sales staff) would agree to install vinyl planks over tile and guarantee the installation? Maybe with a leveling product to fill in the grout lines? Your floor tile size and wide grout lines are dated, so I would demo it everywhere and replace with a light blonde color wood or wood-lookalike or honed marble-lookalike throughout. I don’t know how much longer gray floors will stay popular, unless at the shore/beach, but if you are a lover of gray then go for it. The flooring update should increase your home’s value.

I agree with the others that the arched soffit must go. If the pipes/vents are too costly to tuck into the ceiling so you need a soffit, then it can be done attractively, and if a support column is needed, then it frame a kitchen island attractively. I also believe the angled peninsula shape is out of date, too. Replacing it with an island should increase your home value. If you want seating at the island, I believe the popular thing now is for the kitchen island to be counter height without a higher breakfast bar section that needs bar height seating.

Quartzite and quartz and granite are excellent materials for hard working kitchen counters. Some white granites have gray veining, so compare the cost of all 3 your area.

Replacing the kitchen desk with wall oven is a great idea, desks in kitchens have had their day and need a less greasy, quieter spot. If you use dual ovens only occasionally, consider a wall combo of convection microwave/oven.

If you can remove the soffit above the back wall, tuck everything into the ceiling, and add cabs up to the ceiling, it’s definitely worth the cost. If that option is too costly, just adding fake cab fronts over the soffit would improve the overall look.

I personally would not mix shiny white and beige cabs just so it goes with the beige floor tile. I suggest you update the floor and give yourself more options for the cabinets.

BTW, I love the peninsula pendants....
I have them in my kitchen, with Traditional frame style full overlay off white cabs and dark bird nest handles.

Your LR cofer ceiling is gorgeous! Please forgive me for this unsolicited comment, but getting a rug big enough so all the chairs and sofa and side tables fit completely on it will make your LR magnificent

@marylut thank you so much for all your advice:) At this point I'm unable to break the tiles and install new ones!! I was thinking of slab style upper cabinets in white gloss and lower in a wood grain (greige). I m trying to get rid of the soffit. Also the bar will change to counter height however because of the flooring issue I cannot totally change the look of the bar ( trying to get a rectangular look ) Attached is the layout i was thinking of. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks

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Your present kitchen looks much better than your new design. If you want to keep your floor then grey and white color handle-less kitchen would match better to your overall house design. Your wall, curtain and floor has a grey tone. Cabinets I have shared below are covered by sintered stone featured by aluminum profile.

Your rendering is beautiful! The lower cabs look great with the floor tiles. Take a tile with you, if you have extra, when you select the lower cab color. If you do gloss upper cabs, then slab front is the way to go. Bank of drawers under cooktop is awesome for storing cooking utensils, pots and pans, baking dishes. Open shelving looks pretty in photos and handy for Airbnb, but in real life we don’t live in photos, and I am guessing everything up there will collect dust and cooking grease, so before you commit maybe talk to folks who have them (upper cabs would look very nice).

@marylut thank you so much. I'm leaning more towards a greige gray for the bottom cabinets. I totally agree with the open shelving but i wanted to create a look which is different and make the wall the focal point. Any ideas or input would be greatly appreciate. thank you:)

Several ways to make the back wall look amazing with upper cabs. All white gloss cabs across the top. Exotic wood cab uppers and white cab lowers (won’t have to worry so much about wood cab color going with the floor). Glass door upper cabs. Bespoke vent hood. Backsplash tile color, or thin-slice stone slab as backsplash. LED strip lighting at soffit if soffit can’t be removed.

Notice how the columns and vent hood make this cooktop the focus?

@marylut thank you .. love all the ideas:)

@marylut if i do gloss white upper cabinets then how would i address the vent hood?

For a sleek contemporary vibe, cover the vent hood and fridge and pantry doors with false cab doors to match the other uppers. Will look good with the blue subway tile backsplash I think you mentioned.

A SS and glass hood

Focus on vent hood

White vent hood, aha, this is your scheme with white uppers and wood lowers.

Lots of options to make back wall the focal wall and reflect your personal style. Depends on what you want to focus on :) If you want sleek look, white cabs across the top, vent hood behind false cab fronts, white panels for fridge and pantry on ends, grout to match backsplash tile color. That makes the tile color stand out. Tons of photos online and that is super popular design. A white modern shaped hood will be more unique. If you pick a pretty tile shape (diamond, hexagon, picket, etc) or tile pattern (chevron, basket weave, etc), then don’t match the tile and grout color. That makes the tiles stand out. If you love to cook, put the focus on a bespoke vent hood no one else has. If you want to break up all the white and wood, put SS fridge on one end and SS wall ovens on the other (desk) end and use SS and glass vent hood or wood vent hood (but if pantry is next to bar where wall ovens are in your rendering, it needs to look good with bar white upper cabs and wood lower cabs, so maybe a frosted glass pantry door?)

@marylut thank you so much:)

I don't mind the curving of top and island, a cocoon / half moon type of shape. In person, does it seem 'heavy' and overwhelming?

• They're bespoke doors with an integral finger pul
• Light grey plastic laminate (Formica).

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Here's the messy. Posting cause stove hood so 'big' now, and shelving. Maybe stove tile accent could go way up, or not... and shelving start lower, like this:

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Black pendants like these with nice shape could look sharp against white cabs -

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Is furniture leather, contemporary? these are in my wish list --

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3D wall

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1 of these? 39" long and height is adjustable:

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Possibly you'd enjoy expert installation of LED lighting within work area behind the curved part -

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ribbed glass uppers and minwax grey is similar. Tile floor.

Ikea and other sources for glass fronts on uppers --

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You have a lovely house btw. Good 'luck' in your changes!!

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Cabinets added above - lighting under the cabs

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@everdebz thank you so much. Loving the black pendants with the dark kitchen :)