This maple and cherry kitchen was designed with Starmark cabinets in the Accord door style. Featuring a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish with Glaze and Hazelnut Stain, the Cambria Hampshire and LG Viatera Minuet countertops leave no detail behind in this Woodbury, NY kitchen.

This maple and cherry kitchen was designed with Starmark cabinets in the Accord door style. Featuring a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish with Glaze and Hazelnut Stain, the Cambria Hampshire and LG Viatera Minuet countertops leave no detail behind in this Woodbury, NY kitchen.

This maple and cherry kitchen was designed with Starmark cabinets in the Accord door style. Featuring a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish with Glaze and Hazelnut Stain, the Cambria Hampshire and LG Viatera Minuet countertops leave no detail behind in this Woodbury, NY kitchen.

This maple and cherry kitchen was designed with Starmark cabinets in the Accord door style. Featuring a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish with Glaze and Hazelnut Stain, the Cambria Hampshire and LG Viatera Minuet countertops leave no detail behind in this Woodbury, NY kitchen.

This maple and cherry kitchen was designed with Starmark cabinets in the Accord door style. Featuring a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish with Glaze and Hazelnut Stain, the Cambria Hampshire and LG Viatera Minuet countertops leave no detail behind in this Woodbury, NY kitchen.

This maple and cherry kitchen was designed with Starmark cabinets in the Accord door style. Featuring a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish with Glaze and Hazelnut Stain, the Cambria Hampshire and LG Viatera Minuet countertops leave no detail behind in this Woodbury, NY kitchen.

This maple and cherry kitchen was designed with Starmark cabinets in the Accord door style. Featuring a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish with Glaze and Hazelnut Stain, the Cambria Hampshire and LG Viatera Minuet countertops leave no detail behind in this Woodbury, NY kitchen.

This maple and cherry kitchen was designed with Starmark cabinets in the Accord door style. Featuring a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish with Glaze and Hazelnut Stain, the Cambria Hampshire and LG Viatera Minuet countertops leave no detail behind in this Woodbury, NY kitchen.

This maple and cherry kitchen was designed with Starmark cabinets in the Accord door style. Featuring a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish with Glaze and Hazelnut Stain, the Cambria Hampshire and LG Viatera Minuet countertops leave no detail behind in this Woodbury, NY kitchen.

Large transitional u-shaped dark wood floor and brown floor eat-in kitchen photo in Houston with white cabinets, white backsplash, stainless steel appliances, an island, stone slab backsplash, recessed-panel cabinets, a double-bowl sink, quartz countertops and white countertops

Example of a mid-sized classic medium tone wood floor enclosed dining room design in Orange County with blue walls and no fireplace

Blue tiger’s eye, white oak, steel and a golden back splash create a rich and luxurious tone. Kitchen Design: Mikal Otten Photography: Emily Minton Redfield

This project reimagines an under-used back yard in Portland, Oregon, creating an urban garden with an adjacent writer’s studio. Taking inspiration from Japanese precedents, we conceived of a paving scheme with planters, a cedar soaking tub, a fire pit, and a seven-foot-tall cedar fence. A maple tree forms the focal point and will grow to shade the yard. Photo: Anna M Campbell: annamcampbell.com

This LEED Platinum certified house reflects the homeowner's desire for an exceptionally healthy and comfortable living environment, within a traditional neighborhood. INFILL SITE. The family, who moved from another area of Wellesley, sought out this property to be within walking distance of the high school and downtown area. An existing structure on the tight lot was removed to make way for the new home. 84% of the construction waste, from both the previous structure and the new home, was diverted from a landfill. ZED designed to preserve the existing mature trees on the perimeter of the property to minimize site impacts, and to maintain the character of the neighborhood as well as privacy on the site. EXTERIOR EXPRESSION. The street facade of the home relates to the local New England vernacular. The rear uses contemporary language, a nod to the family’s Californian roots, to incorporate a roof deck, solar panels, outdoor living space, and the backyard swimming pool. ZED’s careful planning avoided to the need to face the garage doors towards the street, a common syndrome of a narrow lot. THOUGHTFUL SPACE. Homes with dual entries can often result in duplicate and unused spaces. In this home, the everyday and formal entry areas are one and the same; the front and garage doors share the entry program of coat closets, mudroom storage with bench for removing your shoes, and a laundry room with generous closets for the children's sporting equipment. The entry area leads directly to the living space, encompassing the kitchen, dining and sitting area areas in an L-shaped open plan arrangement. The kitchen is placed at the south-west corner of the space to allow for a strong connection to the dining, sitting and outdoor living spaces. A fire pit on the deck satisfies the family’s desire for an open flame while a sealed gas fireplace is used indoors - ZED’s preference after omitting gas burning appliances completely from an airtight home. A small study, with a window seat, is conveniently located just off of the living space. A first floor guest bedroom includes an accessible bathroom for aging visitors and can be used as a master suite to accommodate aging in place. HEALTHY LIVING. The client requested a home that was easy to clean and would provide a respite from seasonal allergies and common contaminants that are found in many indoor spaces. ZED selected easy to clean solid surface flooring throughout, provided ample space for cleaning supplies on each floor, and designed a mechanical system with ventilation that provides a constant supply of fresh outdoor air. ZED selected durable materials, finishes, cabinetry, and casework with low or no volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and no added urea formaldehyde. YEAR-ROUND COMFORT. The home is super insulated and air-tight, paired with high performance triple-paned windows, to ensure it is draft-free throughout the winter (even when in front of the large windows and doors). ZED designed a right-sized heating and cooling system to pair with the thermally improved building enclosure to ensure year-round comfort. The glazing on the home maximizes passive solar gains, and facilitates cross ventilation and daylighting. ENERGY EFFICIENT. As one of the most energy efficient houses built to date in Wellesley, the home highlights a practical solution for Massachusetts. First, the building enclosure reduces the largest energy requirement for typical houses (heating). Super-insulation, exceptional air sealing, a thermally broken wall assembly, triple pane windows, and passive solar gain combine for a sizable heating load reduction. Second, within the house only efficient systems consume energy. These include an air source heat pump for heating & cooling, a heat pump hot water heater, LED lighting, energy recovery ventilation, and high efficiency appliances. Lastly, photovoltaics provide renewable energy help offset energy consumption. The result is an 89% reduction in energy use compared to a similar brand new home built to code requirements. RESILIENT. The home will fare well in extreme weather events. During a winter power outage, heat loss will be very slow due to the super-insulated and airtight envelope– taking multiple days to drop to 60 degrees even with no heat source. An engineered drainage system, paired with careful the detailing of the foundation, will help to keep the finished basement dry. A generator will provide full operation of the all-electric house during a power outage. OVERALL. The home is a reflection of the family goals and an expression of their values, beautifully enabling health, comfort, safety, resilience, and utility, all while respecting the planet. ZED - Architect & Mechanical Designer Bevilacqua Builders Inc - Contractor Creative Land & Water Engineering - Civil Engineering Barbara Peterson Landscape - Landscape Design Nest & Company - Interior Furnishings Eric Roth Photography - Photography

© Deborah Scannell Photography
Small transitional u-shaped eat-in kitchen photo in Charlotte with raised-panel cabinets, white cabinets, granite countertops, brown backsplash, ceramic backsplash, stainless steel appliances, a peninsula and an undermount sink

Reveal projects an indirect glow onto ceilings and floors to deliver flush mount cove and toe-kick lighting. This 24VDC linear LED system features a shallow .5 inch deep plaster-in aluminum extrusion no thicker than drywall that houses a single row of high CRI, commercial grade white LED Soft Strip. System mounts directly to studs without joist modification and plasters into .5 inch or thicker drywall. Reveal is sold in 1 foot 2.5 watt increments up to 40 feet and may be field-cut. Also available in a 5 watt per foot version as well as a Red-Blue-Green RGB version. LED Soft Strip may be cut every 2.4 inches. 2.5 watt Reveal runs up to 40 feet on a single Class 2, 96 watt power supply. Available in Amber White 2400K with 80 plus CRI, Warm White 2700K with 85 plus CRI, or Very Warm White 3000K with 85 plus CRI. LEDs consume 2.5 watts per foot and 42 lumens per system watt, delivering 116 lumens per foot for Reveal 2WDC. System includes Reveal channels, end caps, LED Soft Strip, special junction box and all mounting hardware. Power supply options include a Class 2 24 volt 0-10 96 or 192 watt, sold separately. Dimmable with a Lightolier Sunrise ZP600FAM120, Leviton IP710-DL dimmer. sold separately. Dimming systems include Lutron Radio Ra2 with Grafik Eye, RRD-10ND and GRX-TVI; Grafik Eye QS with Grafik Eye, QSGRJ-XP and GRX-TVI; Diva with Grafik Eye, DVTV and PP20; Nova T with Grafik Eye, NTFTV-WH and PP20, sold separately. Fixture includes a 5 year warranty. Made in USA.

Our designer has achieved a stylish look by combining dark cabinets and light-colored marbles.

David Kingsbury, www.davidkingsburyphoto.com
Mid-sized elegant l-shaped dark wood floor eat-in kitchen photo in San Francisco with a single-bowl sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, quartz countertops, white backsplash, subway tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances and an island

A classic two-story home with dark siding, porch and white picket fence. Residential design by Strand Design, Minneapolis.
Example of a classic exterior home design in Minneapolis