For this project, the entire kitchen was designed around the “must-have” Lacanche range in the stunning French Blue with brass trim. That was the client’s dream and everything had to be built to complement it. Bilotta senior designer, Randy O’Kane, CKD worked with Paul Benowitz and Dipti Shah of Benowitz Shah Architects to contemporize the kitchen while staying true to the original house which was designed in 1928 by regionally noted architect Franklin P. Hammond. The clients purchased the home over two years ago from the original owner. While the house has a magnificent architectural presence from the street, the basic systems, appointments, and most importantly, the layout and flow were inappropriately suited to contemporary living. The new plan removed an outdated screened porch at the rear which was replaced with the new family room and moved the kitchen from a dark corner in the front of the house to the center. The visual connection from the kitchen through the family room is dramatic and gives direct access to the rear yard and patio. It was important that the island separating the kitchen from the family room have ample space to the left and right to facilitate traffic patterns, and interaction among family members. Hence vertical kitchen elements were placed primarily on existing interior walls. The cabinetry used was Bilotta’s private label, the Bilotta Collection – they selected beautiful, dramatic, yet subdued finishes for the meticulously handcrafted cabinetry. The double islands allow for the busy family to have a space for everything – the island closer to the range has seating and makes a perfect space for doing homework or crafts, or having breakfast or snacks. The second island has ample space for storage and books and acts as a staging area from the kitchen to the dinner table. The kitchen perimeter and both islands are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Paper White. The wall cabinets flanking the sink have wire mesh fronts in a statuary bronze – the insides of these cabinets are painted blue to match the range. The breakfast room cabinetry is Benjamin Moore’s Lampblack with the interiors of the glass cabinets painted in Paper White to match the kitchen. All countertops are Vermont White Quartzite from Eastern Stone. The backsplash is Artistic Tile’s Kyoto White and Kyoto Steel. The fireclay apron-front main sink is from Rohl while the smaller prep sink is from Linkasink. All faucets are from Waterstone in their antique pewter finish. The brass hardware is from Armac Martin and the pendants above the center island are from Circa Lighting. The appliances, aside from the range, are a mix of Sub-Zero, Thermador and Bosch with panels on everything.

The large and luxurious farmhouse kitchen is a masterpiece of construction, featuring an expansive space that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. The kitchen boasts an array of high-end appliances, including a professional-grade stove and oven, a large refrigerator, and a dishwasher. The countertops are made of durable and elegant quartz, which provides ample workspace for meal preparation and entertaining. The cabinetry is crafted from the finest materials, with intricate detailing and a rich, warm finish that perfectly complements the farmhouse aesthetic. The kitchen also includes a spacious island, which provides additional storage and workspace. Large windows allow natural light to flood the space, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. Overall, this farmhouse kitchen is a true masterpiece of construction and design, offering the perfect blend of style and functionality.

This kitchen, all in white, conveys a sense of timeless elegance, homely warmth and perfect craftsmanship. The focus is on the finely structured wood which is used in a number of different ways: as a delicate solid wood edge, in the varied interior fittings and as a top quality wall panel which acts as a flowing transition to the living area.

The kitchen was designed to incorporate the natural light from the large windows so there are very few upper cabinets. However, the island adds a lot of storage as well as a pantry to the right of the island. The appliances are all Bosch with a self-retracting downdraft ventilation system and a remote blower installed away from the kitchen to limit the amount of noise during operation.

This kitchen, all in white, conveys a sense of timeless elegance, homely warmth and perfect craftsmanship. The focus is on the finely structured wood which is used in a number of different ways: as a delicate solid wood edge, in the varied interior fittings and as a top quality wall panel which acts as a flowing transition to the living area.

Brand new, modern duplex in Inwood Park! This 2 story home is connected by a beautiful metal staircase with open risers, superior interior finishes, smooth walls, and large rooms with big windows for tons of light! Entertain in your kitchen featuring Bosch freestanding gas range, Bosch counter depth fridge, and a quartz island with waterfall edges. Upstairs, in your master suite you can find a huge bathroom with a large shower for 2, wall hung toilet, and the biggest closet with LEDs throughout! This home has 1 flex room which can be used as a home office, workout room, or movie room. Enter your backyard through 16 foot sliding glass doors to green turf and an amazing color changing pool! Located just minutes from Lemmon, Inwood, Mockingbird and Lovers. Welcome to your new home!

This was a long planned kitchen remodel in which a wall was taken down to open up the room. A pantry was added as well. Of course, the lighting is all LED along with a new Bosch dishwasher, LG fridge, and Bocchi farmhouse sink. For a full list see below: Cabinetry Woodland Cabinetry https://woodlandcabinetry.com Door Style- Easton Full Overlay (Maple) Color- Ivory Countertop Quartzite White Macaubas 3cm Leather Backsplash Artistic Tile Celestial Starry Blue https://www.artistictile.com/celestial-starry-blue-smxcelp2 Grout: Laticrete PERMACOLOR (color: Silver Shadow #88) Sink BOCCHI Contempo Farmhouse Apron Front Step Rim Fireclay 30 in. Single Bowl Kitchen Sink with Protective Bottom Grid and Strainer (White) https://amzn.to/2TGJ0ii Refrigerator LG 22.7-cu ft 4-Door Counter-Depth French Door Refrigerator w/Ice Maker (Stainless Steel) model LMXC23746D Dishwasher Bosch Ascenta 24” White Bar Handle Tall Tub Dishwasher (with Stainless Steel Tub) model # SHX3AR72UC Flooring Lumber Liquidators Bellawood ¾” x 3 ¼” Select Red Oak Window Covering Levolor Accordia Cellular Heathered light filtering single cell cordless (color: Sea Glass)

A major challenge of this Bloomfield Hills kitchen renovation was to rethink its spatial layout to create a more functional dining and entertaining area. The homeowners also wanted a warm, inviting space filled with natural light, unique design elements and a cohesive flow that honored the character of the home. Adjusting the depth of the perimeter Inspira Cabinetry Concordia cabinets made room for a perfectly sized island that provides seating without overwhelming the space, notes the designer. Modifying walls and windows, including removing a small window by the buffet that allows the inclusion of statement cabinetry, lets more natural light flow into the space. Incorporating glass doors into the buffet gives it a China cabinet-inspired look. Along the perimeter, a Blanco PRECIS low-divide Silgranit sink is paired with a Moen Align pull-down faucet below the sink, with Bosch dishwasher close at hand. A 36″ Dual-Fuel Professional Range from Monogram is topped with a custom range hood with Zephyr liner. Flash Series ceramic wall tile from Arizona Tile covers the walls, adding light and shine. A Monogram refrigerator and freezer, as well as Presrv refrigerator drawers from Zephyr and GE Profile microwave oven are also featured. One standout feature of the previous kitchen was a brick wall with a fireplace, which the designer knew she wanted to keep. As a complement, existing ceiling beams were wrapped with natural wood, which adds warmth and continuity to the space. Playing with a mix of black, gold and creamy tones ensures a balance of bold accents and soft neutrals while replacing the original slate floor tiles with large wood planks offers a better connection to the kitchen’s new design vision.

New Luxury vinyl plank flooring covers the whole home with exceptions of tile in the laundry room, hall bath and master bath. Completing the journey of this remodel is the master bathroom. A custom-made hale navy vanity provides the pop of color against the floor which was cascaded with Evostone Ivory Hexagon Mosaic tile. A new stunning shower rounds out this master bath, that is enveloped in Pan American Bianco Ceramic tile with not one but two shower niches the perfect place to house any bodywash, shampoo and conditioner to your liking. Completing the room are the accented Champagne bronze shower fixtures and matte black sink faucet and medicine cabinet.

Brand new, modern duplex in Inwood Park! This 2 story home is connected by a beautiful metal staircase with open risers, superior interior finishes, smooth walls, and large rooms with big windows for tons of light! Entertain in your kitchen featuring Bosch freestanding gas range, Bosch counter depth fridge, and a quartz island with waterfall edges. Upstairs, in your master suite you can find a huge bathroom with a large shower for 2, wall hung toilet, and the biggest closet with LEDs throughout! This home has 1 flex room which can be used as a home office, workout room, or movie room. Enter your backyard through 16 foot sliding glass doors to green turf and an amazing color changing pool! Located just minutes from Lemmon, Inwood, Mockingbird and Lovers. Welcome to your new home!

The large and luxurious farmhouse kitchen is a masterpiece of construction, featuring an expansive space that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. The kitchen boasts an array of high-end appliances, including a professional-grade stove and oven, a large refrigerator, and a dishwasher. The countertops are made of durable and elegant quartz, which provides ample workspace for meal preparation and entertaining. The cabinetry is crafted from the finest materials, with intricate detailing and a rich, warm finish that perfectly complements the farmhouse aesthetic. The kitchen also includes a spacious island, which provides additional storage and workspace. Large windows allow natural light to flood the space, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. Overall, this farmhouse kitchen is a true masterpiece of construction and design, offering the perfect blend of style and functionality.

Homeowners aimed to bring the lovely outdoors into better view when they removed the two 90's dated columns that divided the kitchen from the family room and eat-in area. They also transformed the range wall when they added two wood encasement windows which frame the custom zinc hood and allow a soft light to penetrate the kitchen. Custom beaded inset cabinetry was designed with a busy family of 5 in mind. A coffee station hides behind the appliance garage, the paper towel holder is partially concealed in a rolling drawer and three custom pullout drawers with soft close hinges hold many items that would otherwise be located on the countertops or under the sink. A 48" Viking gas range took the place of a 30" electric cooktop and a Bosch microwave drawer is now located in the island to make room for a newly added beverage cooler. Due to space and budget constraints, we kept the same basic footprint so every space was carefully planned for function and design. The family stayed true to their casual lifestyle with the black honed countertops but added a little bling with the rustic crystal chandelier, crystal prism arched sconces and calcutta gold herringbone backsplash. But the owner's favorite add was the custom island designed as an antique furniture piece with an essenza blue quartzite countertop cut with a demi-bull stepout. The kids can now sit at the ample counter and enjoy their breakfast or finish homework in the comfortable, cherry red swivel stools which add a pop of color to the otherwise understated tones. This newly remodeled kitchen checked all the homeowner's desires.

For this project, the entire kitchen was designed around the “must-have” Lacanche range in the stunning French Blue with brass trim. That was the client’s dream and everything had to be built to complement it. Bilotta senior designer, Randy O’Kane, CKD worked with Paul Benowitz and Dipti Shah of Benowitz Shah Architects to contemporize the kitchen while staying true to the original house which was designed in 1928 by regionally noted architect Franklin P. Hammond. The clients purchased the home over two years ago from the original owner. While the house has a magnificent architectural presence from the street, the basic systems, appointments, and most importantly, the layout and flow were inappropriately suited to contemporary living. The new plan removed an outdated screened porch at the rear which was replaced with the new family room and moved the kitchen from a dark corner in the front of the house to the center. The visual connection from the kitchen through the family room is dramatic and gives direct access to the rear yard and patio. It was important that the island separating the kitchen from the family room have ample space to the left and right to facilitate traffic patterns, and interaction among family members. Hence vertical kitchen elements were placed primarily on existing interior walls. The cabinetry used was Bilotta’s private label, the Bilotta Collection – they selected beautiful, dramatic, yet subdued finishes for the meticulously handcrafted cabinetry. The double islands allow for the busy family to have a space for everything – the island closer to the range has seating and makes a perfect space for doing homework or crafts, or having breakfast or snacks. The second island has ample space for storage and books and acts as a staging area from the kitchen to the dinner table. The kitchen perimeter and both islands are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Paper White. The wall cabinets flanking the sink have wire mesh fronts in a statuary bronze – the insides of these cabinets are painted blue to match the range. The breakfast room cabinetry is Benjamin Moore’s Lampblack with the interiors of the glass cabinets painted in Paper White to match the kitchen. All countertops are Vermont White Quartzite from Eastern Stone. The backsplash is Artistic Tile’s Kyoto White and Kyoto Steel. The fireclay apron-front main sink is from Rohl while the smaller prep sink is from Linkasink. All faucets are from Waterstone in their antique pewter finish. The brass hardware is from Armac Martin and the pendants above the center island are from Circa Lighting. The appliances, aside from the range, are a mix of Sub-Zero, Thermador and Bosch with panels on everything.

Brand new, modern duplex in Inwood Park! This 2 story home is connected by a beautiful metal staircase with open risers, superior interior finishes, smooth walls, and large rooms with big windows for tons of light! Entertain in your kitchen featuring Bosch freestanding gas range, Bosch counter depth fridge, and a quartz island with waterfall edges. Upstairs, in your master suite you can find a huge bathroom with a large shower for 2, wall hung toilet, and the biggest closet with LEDs throughout! This home has 1 flex room which can be used as a home office, workout room, or movie room. Enter your backyard through 16 foot sliding glass doors to green turf and an amazing color changing pool! Located just minutes from Lemmon, Inwood, Mockingbird and Lovers. Welcome to your new home!

The large and luxurious farmhouse kitchen is a masterpiece of construction, featuring an expansive space that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. The kitchen boasts an array of high-end appliances, including a professional-grade stove and oven, a large refrigerator, and a dishwasher. The countertops are made of durable and elegant quartz, which provides ample workspace for meal preparation and entertaining. The cabinetry is crafted from the finest materials, with intricate detailing and a rich, warm finish that perfectly complements the farmhouse aesthetic. The kitchen also includes a spacious island, which provides additional storage and workspace. Large windows allow natural light to flood the space, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. Overall, this farmhouse kitchen is a true masterpiece of construction and design, offering the perfect blend of style and functionality.

Brand new, modern duplex in Inwood Park! This 2 story home is connected by a beautiful metal staircase with open risers, superior interior finishes, smooth walls, and large rooms with big windows for tons of light! Entertain in your kitchen featuring Bosch freestanding gas range, Bosch counter depth fridge, and a quartz island with waterfall edges. Upstairs, in your master suite you can find a huge bathroom with a large shower for 2, wall hung toilet, and the biggest closet with LEDs throughout! This home has 1 flex room which can be used as a home office, workout room, or movie room. Enter your backyard through 16 foot sliding glass doors to green turf and an amazing color changing pool! Located just minutes from Lemmon, Inwood, Mockingbird and Lovers. Welcome to your new home!

Brand new, modern duplex in Inwood Park! This 2 story home is connected by a beautiful metal staircase with open risers, superior interior finishes, smooth walls, and large rooms with big windows for tons of light! Entertain in your kitchen featuring Bosch freestanding gas range, Bosch counter depth fridge, and a quartz island with waterfall edges. Upstairs, in your master suite you can find a huge bathroom with a large shower for 2, wall hung toilet, and the biggest closet with LEDs throughout! This home has 1 flex room which can be used as a home office, workout room, or movie room. Enter your backyard through 16 foot sliding glass doors to green turf and an amazing color changing pool! Located just minutes from Lemmon, Inwood, Mockingbird and Lovers. Welcome to your new home!!

  Free ebook, Creating the Ideal Kitchen. DOWNLOAD NOW   One of my very favorite parts of the design process is space planning and considering all the possible floor plan solutions at the beginning stages of the project. What works for one person as a solution may not be the best solution for the next. What you think you want going into the process, may change once all the space planning options are considered. This was exactly the case for this family. They thought they really wanted an island configuration. Once we figured out the flow of the work triangle and saw how great a large peninsula would work for the family, we proceeded along those lines. The peninsula not only works great for food prep, it also allows more of a traditional table seating versus an island with everyone lined up in a row — not so great for daily dinner conversation. To the right of that is a counter depth fridge and a speed oven which gives some flexibility with cooking and reheating smaller meals instead of having to heat the entire oven. An induction cooktop with its easy to clean surface keeps the space looking clean and tidy. Induction heats very quickly to high temperatures so is also wonderful to cook on. To the right of cooktop is a long stretch of countertop perfect for prep space. Storage was very important to the homeowners. We took our time discussing where spice pull outs and tray dividers would be located, how the corner storage would be addressed and the location of the other items such as trash and recycling cans. We worked as many drawers as possible into the space, as I always recommend drawers over doors and/or roll outs as they offer the most flexibility and ease of use. Customizing these details is time well spent as having a place for everything and everything in its place, just like Mom said, really is the key to a functional and professionally designed kitchen. The talls and wall cabinets are white acrylic which combined with the white marble look quartz countertops and full height backsplash keep the room feeling light, bright and airy. The wood toned base cabinets are made of a textured laminate that has the look of wood but is a very easy to maintain product. Brushed gold metal on the hardware, faucet and chandelier add a warm touch and ties into the blond maple flooring. The neighboring breakfast room was also remodeled as part of the project and houses a small coffee station. Designed by: Susan Klimala, CKBD Photography by: Kari Firak For more information on kitchen and bath design ideas go to: www.kitchenstudio-ge.com

Brand new, modern duplex in Inwood Park! This 2 story home is connected by a beautiful metal staircase with open risers, superior interior finishes, smooth walls, and large rooms with big windows for tons of light! Entertain in your kitchen featuring Bosch freestanding gas range, Bosch counter depth fridge, and a quartz island with waterfall edges. Upstairs, in your master suite you can find a huge bathroom with a large shower for 2, wall hung toilet, and the biggest closet with LEDs throughout! This home has 1 flex room which can be used as a home office, workout room, or movie room. Enter your backyard through 16 foot sliding glass doors to green turf and an amazing color changing pool! Located just minutes from Lemmon, Inwood, Mockingbird and Lovers. Welcome to your new home!!