Every kitchen has one or two things that just don’t work well—the kinds of things that bug and annoy like a lone mosquito hovering over your head at night. However, in this case, after 5 long years, there were so many things that were not working—from appliances to sightlines to workspace—that these Maple Grove homeowners had finally had enough.

As they put it, “We just wanted to love our kitchen.” And that meant for the first time ever!
Goal: To put the love back into the kitchen, got it! And that meant a lot of changes, namely from a closed-off peninsula with a look-through to an open concept layout that also involved eliminating several eyesores in the dining room. It was quickly determined that an open concept layout would solve many issues. Having decided on that made the rest of the project fall together rather quickly. That meant moving everything from the peninsula: the sink to a new island, the stovetop/oven, and the refrigerator to the opposite wall.