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# Rabbitt Design

Original Houzz profile: [Rabbitt Design](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/rabbitt-design-pfvwus-pf~473769457)

## Professional summary

- **Primary category:** Architects
- **Location:** Oakland, CA
- **Serves:** Oakland, Concord, Berkeley, Richmond, San Ramon, Alameda, Walnut Creek, Danville, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, San Pablo, Lafayette, Orinda, Moraga, Alamo, Emeryville, Piedmont, Saranap, Waldon, Canyon
- **Houzz rating:** 0.0 out of 5 (0 reviews)

## About

### Houzz Badges

- Houzz Influencer
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Www.Rabbittdesign.net

### Services Provided

- Architectural Design
- Building Design
- Home Remodeling
- Architectural Drawings
- Custom Homes
- House Plans
- New Home Construction
- Home Additions
- Home Extensions
- Kitchen Design
- Kitchen Remodeling
- Sustainable Design
- Floor Plans
- 3D Rendering
- Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
- Bathroom Design
- Universal Design
- Drafting
- Outdoor Kitchen Design
- Mudroom Design
- Basement Design
- Attic Conversion
- Staircase Design
- Deck Design
- Garage Design
- Landscape Plans
- Laundry Room Design

### Areas Served

- Oakland
- Concord
- Berkeley
- Richmond
- San Ramon
- Alameda
- Walnut Creek
- Danville
- Martinez
- Pleasant Hill
- San Pablo
- Lafayette
- Orinda
- Moraga
- Alamo
- Emeryville
- Piedmont
- Saranap
- Waldon
- Canyon

### Typical Job Cost

$1,500 - 8,000

## Business Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Business Name | Rabbitt Design |
| Address | 5681 Chelton Dr, Oakland, California 94611, United States |
| Phone | (925) 300-7004 |
| Website | https://www.rabbittdesign.net/ |
| Followers on Houzz | 12 |

**Social profiles:**
- Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/RabbittDesign
- Blog — rabbittdesign.net

## Contact

- **Houzz profile:** [Rabbitt Design](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/rabbitt-design-pfvwus-pf~473769457)
- **Website:** https://www.rabbittdesign.net/
- **Phone:** (925) 300-7004

## Selected projects

- [Design and Renderings](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/design-and-renderings-pj-vj~7182681)
  - Location: Oakland, CA
  - Photos: 7
- [E38](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/e38-pj-vj~6680973)
  - Location: Oakland, CA
  - Photos: 4
- [Various Kitchens](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/various-kitchens-pj-vj~6680972)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 2
- [Davenport Kitchen](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/davenport-kitchen-pj-vj~6680970)
  - Location: Oakland, CA
  - Photos: 1
- [Miner Kitchen](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/miner-kitchen-pj-vj~6680968)
  - Location: Orinda, CA
  - Photos: 4
- [Sternberg Kitchen](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/sternberg-kitchen-pj-vj~6680966)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 4

[See all 6 projects](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/rabbitt-design-pfvwus-pf~473769457)

## Ideabooks

- [Rendering Ideas](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/159687662/list/rendering-ideas) — 1 idea

[See all 1 ideabook](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/users/rabbitt-design)

## Community Q&A

**Q: Looking for advice on changing kitchen floor plan** *(in Design Dilemma)*

I’m hoping to get some advice relating to two home projects.  
The first is a complete kitchen remodel, to include new flooring, new cabinets, new counters, etc and possibly a new layout. The budget is approximately 65k (not including appliances).  
I am wary of moving outside doors and windows or the current HVAC locations because of budget, but I’d rather spend the money now to have the layout make sense than regret it, so all suggestions are welcome.  
The current kitchen sink is located under the window. The stove (gas) is on the wall between the kitchen and dining room and the refrigerator is located on the wall between the kitchen and living room.  
The space to the right of the french door is currently unused, it once held a kitchen table. I’m open to trying to “connect” it to the larger space. I’m thinking of;  
1\. Opening up the kitchen and dining room.
2\. Removing the current pantry to add cabinet pantries somewhere- even if the wall between the kitchen and dining room stays, those 3 doors are terribly irritating.
3\. Venting the stove outside. Joists run front to back so hopefully not an issue on any inside wall. Second floor may block venting straight up.
4\. Changing the entry to the kitchen to be straight ahead vs. making a left turn to enter.  
The second goal for this space is to add a 1/2 bathroom on the main floor somewhere. Currently leaning towards carving some space out of the living room on the wall between the kitchen and living room, with the door opening into the hallway. The budget for this is approximately 5k. 



Any suggestions would be welcome!

edit: larger print pic

A: Need a dimensioned plan of your second floor before advising on removing potential bearing walls especially cost-probitive decisions etc.

**Q: Which small galley kitchen layout would you choose?** *(in Remodeling)*

This is a small galley kitchen in an apartment in NYC (not small for NYC, I guess). There is no outside venting. There is an open doorway leading to an alcove dining room on one side and a small hallway leading to another end of the apartment on the other side. I am deciding between these three layouts, and I am open to other suggestions. Room width - 86", aisle width 36" except at fridge which will be about 30".
In all options - The sink cannot be moved. The vent cannot be moved. there is a dishwasher to the left of the sink and an under counter combo washer/dryer to the right of the sink.
In B and C - there is a microwave oven in a shelf cubby and a toaster oven on a shelf below it, with countertops in front. The sink side in option b and c are the same. In option A, there is an over the range microwave.
Our current layout is basically option A, but I think option B might be the best use of the space as it creates a separate reheating area from the cooking zone. Do you agree?
Would love any feedback on which you would choose and why.
Edit: In option B and C - the cooktop and wall oven are on different sides.
Edit 2:  The vent is a passive vent.  There is a recirculating hood over the passive vent in option B and C.  There is six inches of countertop between left side doorway and cooktop in Option B and C.











Current floorplan

A: From the horses arse, not Ai - helpful tone but I am opinionated :)
How are you using the existing kitchen? the volume of cooking usually matches the volume of storage needs. If that's out of balance you are spending a lot of money for a kitchen that doesn't work..something has to give.
I am not sure if you get to buy a lot of food, have a lot of cooking appliance, have a laundry, and have a lot of dishes...some habit has to change IMHO.
You batch cook.... awesome!.... bring your food home from the grocery store and start batching, no fridge needed,  then mise en place my friend, and clean while you go, dishwasher issue solved, use an 18" washer if need be, or get a bigger sink with integrated bowls and block..a workstation sink..we can integrate a drying rack in your upper cabinet.
yes you could size up to a 30" tower. you could even add a second oven.
Do you really need 4 burners? have you ever owned a steam oven and do you know about its magic tricks that would have you spending a lot less time at the cooktop? Buy a cast iron, get your sear, throw the cast iron in the oven, get a separate induction single for boiling water as needed, bam, 2 burners still available
Regarding the fridge..that is up to your preference. I really dont enjoy feeling crowded in a kitchen, I would much rather trade off more grocery store runs for a more calming kitchen. Some place that keeps it a joy to work in. The amount of time i spend cooking is far greater than the amount of time it takes me to go to the grocery store two more times in a month..I would much rather have the greater amount of time enjoying my experience...food for thought.

**Q: Need help with kitchen** *(in Home Decorating)*

Hi. We recently purchased a house and I'm not crazy about the kitchen. I think it's too white and lacks character. The 2 "bare" walls bother me as well.
The one with the wine fridge and empty wall next to it. I'm wondering if I should make those walls statement walls? Meaning maybe a bold color paint or dark earth tone. Maybe wallpaper or...tile?? I'm lost. Unfortunately my husband is currently against replacing counters and backsplash but open to other decorative changes. Maybe a colorful island, different fixtures and drawer pulls would help? I'm truly not good at coming up with ideas for decorating and can really use any input. Thank you

A: @Beth my mistake, I thought you were advising on changing sizes and/or leaving behind holes etc.

**Q: 100 year old kitchen remodel** *(in Remodeling)*

My husband and I are remodeling a 100 year old stone lodge.  The kitchen walls are 12 in stone and we are having a dilemma on how to proceed with countertop material and installation.
We created a back wall with 2x4 framing for all pex waterlines/ drains, electrical.
What would suggest with regard to squaring the countertop against the stone wall?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!

A: With or without backsplash?
Scribe your countertop height and grind the stone flat to the grind edge to get a tight butt with your countertop. It will look particularly great once the stone overlaps the counter

**Q: Need help with layout of kitchen / back of first floor** *(in Remodeling)*

Attached is a draft layout of the back of the first floor zoomed in and the full first floor layout, but the following things are bothering me:
1\. the wall in the kitchen that is part of the U shaped kitchen, it's there to allow for space in front of the bedrooms but i really think it looks off.
2\. the chimney cutout, I would think to resolve by making the closet there deeper and getting rid of the closet opposite the steps so the dinette table can move over more so it is a bit opposite the steps too

A: To be clear, this entire floor plan can get redesigned correct? not just the back half?

**Q: Big Active Kitchen Remodel** *(in Remodeling)*

Edited to Add: Budget is around $100k, I don’t think we have the budget to he rearranging the whole house and with young kids I just dont see that being livable. We bought this house BECAUSE it had a huge kitchen space to work with. 
We have a large kitchen that needs a gut remodel. We won't be moving any walls but we also can't get rid of the beam across the center of the space. We have had several designs done but I am not sure any of them are exactly right yet, I also need ideas for having the beam look a little more intentional in the design. Also trying to avoid a werid franken-kitchen as the result of trying to combine too many design ideas...
We cook regularly often with 2 people in the cooking zone at a time. We have young kids and a growing family so we are putting in 2 fridges and we already have 2 sinks so planning on keeping that. Practical/functional is likely king in almost all regards but looks nice would be great too. We host the large gatherings for the holidays and plan on hosting youth groups like 4-H/scouts in the space as well. We have a whole dining room that shares a wall with the kitchen so while we do want seatings at the island we don't need anything table height.
The kitchen is the main throughfare from outside to the rest of the house as we primarily enter from the garage - through kitchen - to living space. This is the route along the "bottom" in the first few diagrams. There are already standard base cabinets there so we are used to going around them but not crazy about anything sticking out further than standard base cabinets. We do use this as a primary serving area during large gatherings as it offers good circulation to the dining room.
Looking for thoughts and advice on the layouts we are considering - if you did something similar as far as appliance arrangement - did you love it? Hate it? Do you see any potential conflicts with placements, etc.
I am not sure what else to include so if things come up I will try to add details as needed.
This is my best approximation of the open space (chance of being off an inch here or there), squares are sq ft.  
Edited to Add Information from Comments:
\#1 "Find a Single Designer" - everyone around here that "does" kitchens or cabinets has their own designer. I have hired an independent designer for a bathroom project in the past and it was more or less a complete waste of money I am not real gungho on repeating the experience. Additionally the one dedicated "designer" (vs cabinet store designer - since its clear some people don't consider them designers?) here is the one that keeps trying to put a random seating area in my kitchen and open shelves despite me asking for neither - this is more or less my overall experience with "designers".
\#2 General floorplan for first floor- A few measurements are off and realized I missed the coat closet in the front hall, but the general layout is correct. Unlabeled room between dining and hall is a 1/2 bath. Kitchen is the back of the house. There is a small entry way with coat closet before coming in the kitchen its not awesome that it is also the laundry and the hallway to the office but it works ok enough.



\#3 Windows - the window on the left top wall we can pretty much do whatever as long as it stays within the confines of the current opening. The other window likely isn't going anywhere because we don't have the budget to monkey around with headers in load bearing walls.
\#4 Yes this the extra section of the kitchen is from an addition from before we purchased the house.
\#5 There is no room in the garage for a fridge - it is a 2 car garage in the northeast it houses cars. We already have 2 fridge/freezers and use both a lot (plus a mini fridge) so felt another would add function - I am not sure how having multiple fridges automatically equals waste? We do not have the budget for column fridges unfortunately current plan is a Top Freezer Single Door model for its simplicity ease of repair and ease of replacement.
\#6 Yes a second dishwasher would be awesome but I am having a hard enough time finding where to put 1. 
\#7 I felt that pictures of the current kitchen would be kind of distracting - it really isn't working that well for us but I will include them at the end. Its more or less overflowing with stuff and in no way does the current setup meet code.
No one asked but I thought it might be helpful - Current Cabinets (we need at least this amount if not more everything is overflowing):
Uppers:
(2) 42" x 12" x 30" (fixed shelves)
(1) 30" x 12" x 30" (fixed shelves)
(1) 18" x 12" x 30" (fixed shelves)
(1) 30" x 12" x 18" (microwave shelf below)
(1) Corner Cabinet 17" opening, 12" at sides, 24" deep on diagonal
Lower Cabinets:
(1) Corner base
(1) 9" Tray cabinet
(2) 36" base
(1) 33" sink base
(3) 24" base (drawer/cabinet combo)
(2) 21" base
(2) 15" base
(1) 18" base
Tall/Pantry
(2) 18" x 82" x 24" Pantry Cabinets
(2) Billy Bookcases (31" x 12" x  80")
(1) 1/2 billy bookcase (16" x 12" x 80")
Then there are obviously holes for the dishwasher, fridge, and oven.



Next are 2 designs we are refining but nothing is set in stone.
Option A Sink to the Left  

Option B Sink to the right  

Design ideas we have gotten from various designers:
Design 1: Feels like lots of dead space in the middle of the kitchen. Floating cabinets by the stove look weird to me. Missing second fridge



Design 2:
Has more things wrong then right. I don't think we want the stove on the side wall, has lots of tall cabinets interupting counter runs, Fridge sticks out into main walkway (and interupts a counter run).  

Design 3: 
Has interesting ideas (and the advantage of having some of the feedback from prior designs we didn't like). Still feels like a LOT of dead space between island and buffet. HATE the different size floating cabinets around the hood I think this will look super werid. Missing second fridge  

Design 4:
Has dishwasher in island - interesting idea but feels impractical to have water dripping across the walkway all the time. Like the idea of the rectangle island going the longer way in the room in theory (hence its reflection in the options above). Loved the coffee station idea on the bump in part.  

Design 5: 
The 2 fridges next to each other put them pretty far from the sink and the stove and the coffee corner - not crazy about that. The designer loves the idea of a seating area in the kitchen but I am all about storage/cabinets am I crazy?  

As requested by commentors here are some current pictures of the kitchen. The gas stove with no ventilation is a MUST FIX in the new design - I also want to get rid of all the random makeshift furniture we have had to add to make the space work.

A: @Kendrah I did not read through this entire thread, so I am coming at this late, thank you for catching me up on a few things. 

Second Full Fridge -  seems as if it affirms my feeling on this project, that the need for a second fridge is because the first fridge is being treated as a disorganized catch-all. Homesteaders...put a big freezer in the garage.
That steam oven, when learned and used properly, is going to take the place of the sous vide and pressure cookers. If they can afford it, I would push for the range with integrated sous vide so there is one sous vide and one steam oven, and that leaves two regular ovens.
Steel? That’s great news. Steel is typically sized smaller than commodity lumber, so it seems they were tucking in the ducting for that exhaust hood, which is getting moved anyway. Joists run perpendicular to the beam, and there are already drain lines and vents on the outside kitchen wall, so the plumbing can turn a corner. This confirms to me that we can size the box-out down considerably. Would be helpful to see a second story floor plan to confirm.

There is plenty of room to maneuver in larger capacity fridge and freezer on this elevation:


There is plenty of room on this elevation to hide all manner of things:



Island could be re-arranged after doing a census on prep station inventory etc.



Plenty of storage and room here. A lot of different ways to set this elevation up. 


and plenty of long term storage on the back and sides of the island


and last but not least:

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