An older home with separate, enclosed kitchen and dining areas now has a fresh, transitional look. The removal of walls has opened up this space to become a great room. The large kitchen island invites friends and family to gather around. Perimeter cabinetry: Medallion Cabinetry, Hartford door style, Ginger Snap finish on Maple Island and Hutch: Medallion Cabinetry, Hartford door style, White Icing paint on Maple Perimeter countertop: Alaska White granite Island and hutch countertop: St. Laurent Pental Quartz Design by: Heather Smith

This intricate medallion wallpaper is done in a large scale, perfect for a feature wall. A metallic silver background adds a shimmering effect while the matte light brown print creates the medallions.

Medallion Lancaster/Potters Mill flat panel cabinets were installed. The finish on the upper and tall cabinets is Irish Crem Classic Paint and the base cabinets is Frappe Classic Paint. The countertop is Cambria Bellingham quartz. The full height backsplash Envi Venatino Armada quartz. A Blanco Diamond single bowl undermount sink with a Moen Arbor faucet in Spot Resist Stainless. The flooring is Mannington Adura Max Luxury Vinyl plank in Aspen color.

Medallion Lancaster/Potters Mill flat panel cabinets were installed. The finish on the upper and tall cabinets is Irish Crem Classic Paint and the base cabinets is Frappe Classic Paint. The countertop is Cambria Bellingham quartz. The full height backsplash Envi Venatino Armada quartz. A Blanco Diamond single bowl undermount sink with a Moen Arbor faucet in Spot Resist Stainless. The flooring is Mannington Adura Max Luxury Vinyl plank in Aspen color.

A complete kitchen and powder room remodel in Herndon, Virginia, designed around two clear priorities: open up the kitchen to the rest of the main level, and create an experience that felt warm and timeless rather than trendy. The original layout had a wall separating the kitchen from the dining room and an awkward fridge wall that limited both storage and traffic flow. Our solution involved removing the dividing wall (confirmed non-load-bearing), tightening the new dining room opening to 66 inches, and extending the fridge wall 25 inches into the kitchen to create a proper full-height pantry run. The result is a kitchen that breathes — open to the dining and living areas, with clear sight lines from the island to the bay windows at the far end. Design Approach The clients came in knowing they didn't want white. They didn't want navy. They wanted something with real wood character — the kind of finish that ages well and looks more like furniture than stock kitchen cabinetry. Cherry was the answer to that question. We anchored the room around contrast: warm cherry cabinetry against clean white walls and white quartz, black hardware grounding the cherry's warmth, and a single waterfall island acting as the architectural focal point. Stainless appliances, brushed gold pendant accents, and the herringbone hardwood floor pull the room together without any one element shouting for attention. The Cabinetry Medallion Gold Line Sonoma Cappuccino — a stained cherry finish that catches light differently throughout the day. All-plywood box construction, solid wood doors and drawer fronts, soft close everywhere, US-made with a lifetime warranty. Four pull-out drawers built into the pantry bottoms keep the deep storage actually usable rather than a black hole. Cabinet hardware is Top Knobs Riverside Pulls in flat black — 40 pulls across drawers and doors, plus three longer pulls on the 36-inch base drawers. The black was a deliberate decision: with cherry and stainless already providing warm and cool tones, brass or gold would have been one warm tone too many. Black grounds the cabinetry and gives the kitchen its architectural definition. The Island and Countertops MSI Calacatta Miraggio Gold quartz throughout — perimeter counters, island, waterfall ends, and the powder room. The Gold variant has subtle warm veining that pairs with cherry where cooler whites would have fought the wood tone. The island gets a full waterfall edge — slabs book-matched, miters precise, the finished edge essentially seamless. Treating the island as architectural sculpture rather than just functional storage. The black undermount farmhouse-style sink ties back to the hardware throughout the rest of the kitchen. The Backsplash MSI Metro Gold tile — small format white and gold tiles in a herringbone-adjacent pattern with intermittent gold accents. Full height, continuous behind the floating shelves and behind the hood. Four custom floating shelves are spaced above a 3-inch countertop ledge: first shelf 18 inches above the ledge, second shelf 9 inches above that, third 18 inches above the second. The shelves are stained to match the cabinetry. The backsplash continues behind the shelves and behind the hood, so the wall reads as a continuous textured surface that the shelves and hood float in front of. The Appliances This is a serious cooking kitchen. The clients chose a 48-inch Wolf gas range, a Sub-Zero built-in refrigerator integrated into the cherry cabinet wall, a Wolf microwave drawer in the island base, and a Bosch dishwasher. For ventilation, we installed a 1200 CFM hood paired with a make-up air system to balance the negative pressure that hood pulls. New ducting was routed through the exterior siding on the side of the house. The Flooring MSI engineered hardwood throughout the entire main level — approximately 800 square feet — installed in a Bramlett herringbone pattern. Herringbone adds roughly 15-20 percent to material and labor costs because of the angled cuts and waste factor, but the result is a floor that reads as more considered and luxurious than standard plank flooring. Finished with 4.5-inch white wood baseboards throughout. The Powder Room A small room with a big personality. The clients chose a deep blue and teal scallop pattern wallpaper (client-supplied, we installed) and paired it with the same Sonoma Cappuccino cherry vanity used in the kitchen — material continuity between the spaces. Powder room countertop is the same MSI Calacatta Miraggio Gold quartz from the kitchen with a rectangular white undermount sink. Hardware on the powder room vanity is Top Knobs Riverside in honey bronze rather than the kitchen's flat black — the warm bronze pulls the brass tones from the faucet into the millwork and complements the wallpaper. New sconce, kept the existing toilet (refinishing or replacing a working toilet is wasted money in a powder room remodel), and a Panasonic Whisper Green exhaust fan. Project Specs Location: Herndon, Virginia Project type: Combined kitchen and powder room remodel Project duration: Approximately 4 to 6 weeks Style: Transitional, Modern Farmhouse, Warm Wood Contemporary Color palette: Cherry, white, black, brushed gold, deep blue (powder room) Materials Cabinetry (kitchen and powder room): Medallion Gold Line Sonoma Cappuccino cherry, Shaker-style, all-plywood box construction, lifetime warranty Kitchen hardware: Top Knobs Riverside Pulls in flat black (TK1014BLK and TK1017BLK) Powder room hardware: Top Knobs Riverside Pulls in honey bronze (TK1012HB) Counter tops: MSI Calacatta Miraggio Gold Quartz, pencil edge, waterfall island Backsplash: MSI Metro Gold tile, full height Floating shelves: 4 custom shelves at 48" by 9", stained to match cabinets Range: 48-inch Wolf gas range Refrigerator: Sub-Zero built-in Microwave: Wolf microwave drawer (island base) Hood: 1200 CFM with make-up air system Kitchen sink: Kohler farmhouse-style, 36-inch base, black Kitchen faucet: Brizo (homeowner-supplied) Flooring: MSI engineered hardwood in Bramlett herringbone pattern, approximately 800 sq ft Baseboards: 4.5-inch white wood throughout Powder room wallpaper: Client-supplied scallop pattern in blues and teals Powder room exhaust fan: Panasonic Whisper Green Paint: Benjamin Moore Designed and built by My Kitchen and Bath out of our Herndon showroom at 285 Sunset Park Drive. We've been designing and building kitchens, bathrooms, and full home renovations across Northern Virginia and the DMV since 1994.

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Kitchen - transitional kitchen idea in Sacramento

Medallion Lancaster/Potters Mill flat panel cabinets were installed. The finish on the upper and tall cabinets is Irish Crem Classic Paint and the base cabinets is Frappe Classic Paint. The countertop is Cambria Bellingham quartz. The full height backsplash Envi Venatino Armada quartz. A Blanco Diamond single bowl undermount sink with a Moen Arbor faucet in Spot Resist Stainless. The flooring is Mannington Adura Max Luxury Vinyl plank in Aspen color.

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Inspiration for a timeless kitchen remodel in Tampa

Medallion Lancaster/Potters Mill flat panel cabinets were installed. The finish on the upper and tall cabinets is Irish Crem Classic Paint and the base cabinets is Frappe Classic Paint. The countertop is Cambria Bellingham quartz. The full height backsplash Envi Venatino Armada quartz. A Blanco Diamond single bowl undermount sink with a Moen Arbor faucet in Spot Resist Stainless. The flooring is Mannington Adura Max Luxury Vinyl plank in Aspen color.

Medallion Lancaster/Potters Mill flat panel cabinets were installed. The finish on the upper and tall cabinets is Irish Crem Classic Paint and the base cabinets is Frappe Classic Paint. The countertop is Cambria Bellingham quartz. The full height backsplash Envi Venatino Armada quartz. A Blanco Diamond single bowl undermount sink with a Moen Arbor faucet in Spot Resist Stainless. The flooring is Mannington Adura Max Luxury Vinyl plank in Aspen color.

Medallion Lancaster/Potters Mill flat panel cabinets were installed. The finish on the upper and tall cabinets is Irish Crem Classic Paint and the base cabinets is Frappe Classic Paint. The countertop is Cambria Bellingham quartz. The full height backsplash Envi Venatino Armada quartz. A Blanco Diamond single bowl undermount sink with a Moen Arbor faucet in Spot Resist Stainless. The flooring is Mannington Adura Max Luxury Vinyl plank in Aspen color.

Medallion Lancaster/Potters Mill flat panel cabinets were installed. The finish on the upper and tall cabinets is Irish Crem Classic Paint and the base cabinets is Frappe Classic Paint. The countertop is Cambria Bellingham quartz. The full height backsplash Envi Venatino Armada quartz. A Blanco Diamond single bowl undermount sink with a Moen Arbor faucet in Spot Resist Stainless. The flooring is Mannington Adura Max Luxury Vinyl plank in Aspen color.

Living room - large transitional formal and enclosed medium tone wood floor and brown floor living room idea in St Louis with brown walls, a standard fireplace, a tile fireplace and no tv

Medallion Lancaster/Potters Mill flat panel cabinets were installed. The finish on the upper and tall cabinets is Irish Crem Classic Paint and the base cabinets is Frappe Classic Paint. The countertop is Cambria Bellingham quartz. The full height backsplash Envi Venatino Armada quartz. A Blanco Diamond single bowl undermount sink with a Moen Arbor faucet in Spot Resist Stainless. The flooring is Mannington Adura Max Luxury Vinyl plank in Aspen color.

With vaulted ceilings and an open floor plan, this bright kitchen invites everyone to gather around. Perimeter cabinetry: Medallion Cabinetry, Silverline, Emmett door style, Divnity paint with Burnt Sienna highlight on maple. Island cabinetry: Medallion Cabinetry, Silverline, Emmett door style, Ginger Snap stain on cherry. Design by: Heather Evans, BKC Kitchen and Bath, in partnership with Cadillac Building Company

Living room - large traditional formal and enclosed medium tone wood floor and brown floor living room idea in St Louis with brown walls, a standard fireplace, a tile fireplace and no tv

This U-shaped kitchen serves as the hub of the house for this busy young family. Positioned in a darker part of the home, we wanted to keep things light and bright in this previously dark and dingy kitchen. By maximizing cabinet space, we were even able to add a few luxury amenities into this space like a full-sized under counter beverage center and Viking appliances any home chef would be happy to have. Classic details like glass corner upper cabinets, white subway tile, and medium stained hardwood floors make this space classic, simple, and sophisticated. Interior Design by Bennett Design Co. Photo by Brad Bidnick

A complete kitchen and powder room remodel in Herndon, Virginia, designed around two clear priorities: open up the kitchen to the rest of the main level, and create an experience that felt warm and timeless rather than trendy. The original layout had a wall separating the kitchen from the dining room and an awkward fridge wall that limited both storage and traffic flow. Our solution involved removing the dividing wall (confirmed non-load-bearing), tightening the new dining room opening to 66 inches, and extending the fridge wall 25 inches into the kitchen to create a proper full-height pantry run. The result is a kitchen that breathes — open to the dining and living areas, with clear sight lines from the island to the bay windows at the far end. Design Approach The clients came in knowing they didn't want white. They didn't want navy. They wanted something with real wood character — the kind of finish that ages well and looks more like furniture than stock kitchen cabinetry. Cherry was the answer to that question. We anchored the room around contrast: warm cherry cabinetry against clean white walls and white quartz, black hardware grounding the cherry's warmth, and a single waterfall island acting as the architectural focal point. Stainless appliances, brushed gold pendant accents, and the herringbone hardwood floor pull the room together without any one element shouting for attention. The Cabinetry Medallion Gold Line Sonoma Cappuccino — a stained cherry finish that catches light differently throughout the day. All-plywood box construction, solid wood doors and drawer fronts, soft close everywhere, US-made with a lifetime warranty. Four pull-out drawers built into the pantry bottoms keep the deep storage actually usable rather than a black hole. Cabinet hardware is Top Knobs Riverside Pulls in flat black — 40 pulls across drawers and doors, plus three longer pulls on the 36-inch base drawers. The black was a deliberate decision: with cherry and stainless already providing warm and cool tones, brass or gold would have been one warm tone too many. Black grounds the cabinetry and gives the kitchen its architectural definition. The Island and Countertops MSI Calacatta Miraggio Gold quartz throughout — perimeter counters, island, waterfall ends, and the powder room. The Gold variant has subtle warm veining that pairs with cherry where cooler whites would have fought the wood tone. The island gets a full waterfall edge — slabs book-matched, miters precise, the finished edge essentially seamless. Treating the island as architectural sculpture rather than just functional storage. The black undermount farmhouse-style sink ties back to the hardware throughout the rest of the kitchen. The Backsplash MSI Metro Gold tile — small format white and gold tiles in a herringbone-adjacent pattern with intermittent gold accents. Full height, continuous behind the floating shelves and behind the hood. Four custom floating shelves are spaced above a 3-inch countertop ledge: first shelf 18 inches above the ledge, second shelf 9 inches above that, third 18 inches above the second. The shelves are stained to match the cabinetry. The backsplash continues behind the shelves and behind the hood, so the wall reads as a continuous textured surface that the shelves and hood float in front of. The Appliances This is a serious cooking kitchen. The clients chose a 48-inch Wolf gas range, a Sub-Zero built-in refrigerator integrated into the cherry cabinet wall, a Wolf microwave drawer in the island base, and a Bosch dishwasher. For ventilation, we installed a 1200 CFM hood paired with a make-up air system to balance the negative pressure that hood pulls. New ducting was routed through the exterior siding on the side of the house. The Flooring MSI engineered hardwood throughout the entire main level — approximately 800 square feet — installed in a Bramlett herringbone pattern. Herringbone adds roughly 15-20 percent to material and labor costs because of the angled cuts and waste factor, but the result is a floor that reads as more considered and luxurious than standard plank flooring. Finished with 4.5-inch white wood baseboards throughout. The Powder Room A small room with a big personality. The clients chose a deep blue and teal scallop pattern wallpaper (client-supplied, we installed) and paired it with the same Sonoma Cappuccino cherry vanity used in the kitchen — material continuity between the spaces. Powder room countertop is the same MSI Calacatta Miraggio Gold quartz from the kitchen with a rectangular white undermount sink. Hardware on the powder room vanity is Top Knobs Riverside in honey bronze rather than the kitchen's flat black — the warm bronze pulls the brass tones from the faucet into the millwork and complements the wallpaper. New sconce, kept the existing toilet (refinishing or replacing a working toilet is wasted money in a powder room remodel), and a Panasonic Whisper Green exhaust fan. Project Specs Location: Herndon, Virginia Project type: Combined kitchen and powder room remodel Project duration: Approximately 4 to 6 weeks Style: Transitional, Modern Farmhouse, Warm Wood Contemporary Color palette: Cherry, white, black, brushed gold, deep blue (powder room) Materials Cabinetry (kitchen and powder room): Medallion Gold Line Sonoma Cappuccino cherry, Shaker-style, all-plywood box construction, lifetime warranty Kitchen hardware: Top Knobs Riverside Pulls in flat black (TK1014BLK and TK1017BLK) Powder room hardware: Top Knobs Riverside Pulls in honey bronze (TK1012HB) Counter tops: MSI Calacatta Miraggio Gold Quartz, pencil edge, waterfall island Backsplash: MSI Metro Gold tile, full height Floating shelves: 4 custom shelves at 48" by 9", stained to match cabinets Range: 48-inch Wolf gas range Refrigerator: Sub-Zero built-in Microwave: Wolf microwave drawer (island base) Hood: 1200 CFM with make-up air system Kitchen sink: Kohler farmhouse-style, 36-inch base, black Kitchen faucet: Brizo (homeowner-supplied) Flooring: MSI engineered hardwood in Bramlett herringbone pattern, approximately 800 sq ft Baseboards: 4.5-inch white wood throughout Powder room wallpaper: Client-supplied scallop pattern in blues and teals Powder room exhaust fan: Panasonic Whisper Green Paint: Benjamin Moore Designed and built by My Kitchen and Bath out of our Herndon showroom at 285 Sunset Park Drive. We've been designing and building kitchens, bathrooms, and full home renovations across Northern Virginia and the DMV since 1994.