Inside the Chenoweth Kitchen

The Chenoweth kitchen was designed around a premise that most kitchen remodels approach tentatively: warmth is not a compromise. In a market where white-and-grey kitchens dominated for a decade, the Brentwood homeowners came to Sebring Design Build with a clear direction, White Oak, Coffee stain, Unlacquered Brass, and a custom hood that would command the cooking wall. The result is a kitchen that reads as both distinctly of this moment and enduringly correct.

CWP Classic Square Raised Solid Wood Panel cabinetry in White Oak with a Coffee stain and Marginal Overlay provides the room's dominant surfaces in one of the most heritage-influenced cabinetry decisions the CWP program offers. The raised center panel is a door construction associated with fine furniture and traditionally crafted millwork: the panel rises above the frame rail rather than sitting flush or recessing behind it, creating a three-dimensional door surface with shadow lines and depth that a flat or recessed panel cannot produce. White Oak's open grain and natural warmth suit the raised panel format precisely, the grain variation reads beautifully at the three-dimensional surface where light hits it differently at different angles. Coffee stain deepens the White Oak to a rich, warm brown that reads as grounded and substantive rather than golden or rustic. Crown molding in CWP Jordans Crown profile extends the cabinetry from counter to ceiling with the traditional architectural detail that a heritage kitchen with this level of cabinetry ambition requires.

A custom brass range hood is the room's focal point and its most singular design decision. Fabricated with a 6-inch PVD Polished Brass band as the defining horizontal element, the hood's warm metallic presence above the cooking wall establishes the kitchen's identity from the moment of entry. The hood is the room's architectural statement and its clearest communication of the design direction: warm, handcrafted, and committed. Unlacquered Brass hardware, Ball Cabinet Knobs at the upper cabinets and doors, Hans 4-inch Drawer Pulls at the standard drawer positions, and Massey Drawer Pulls in 8-inch, 6-inch, and 4-inch at the deeper and wider drawers, appears at every cabinetry contact point in a finish that will develop a natural patina over time. Unlacquered Brass hardware is the material equivalent of the cabinetry choice: genuine, warm, and better with age.

MSI Calcutta Versailles 3CM polished quartz provides the countertops in a white-ground surface with soft, flowing veining that reads as luminous alongside the warm Coffee cabinetry. At 3 CM, the countertop has the visual weight that heritage cabinetry with crown molding and raised panels requires: a countertop that reads as substantial rather than standard. The Davoli pull-down faucet in French Gold PVD and the matching hot water dispenser bring the room's most-handled water fixtures into a warm gold finish that connects to the Unlacquered Brass hardware without requiring a match. The Liven 33-inch dual-mount sink in Soft White provides the kitchen's primary workspace basin in a color that connects to the Calcutta Versailles countertop while providing the apron-adjacent presence of a large, white sink.

Additional design details, glass-front cabinetry, custom shelving with solid brass brackets, and an arched beverage and bar niche with glass shelving, give the kitchen its personality beyond its primary material program. The arched niche is the room's most residential element: a shaped architectural opening with glass shelving that reads as both functional and designed, a space for the everyday objects that make a kitchen feel like someone's home rather than a showroom. The T4-D Nature White 8-inch porcelain backsplash with Schluter Bright White High Pencil Liner trim covers the kitchen walls in a clean white tile at the scale where tile reads as a wall material rather than a pattern. Leona Checkerboard Matte Porcelain 24x24 in Calacatta and Marfil on the floor provides the room's base plane with the heritage floor reference that the kitchen's overall design language calls for: a two-color checkerboard in large format, warm and bright simultaneously, and unmistakably the floor of a home that knows what it is.