The Kitchen at Our Cool Springs Transitional Elegant Remodel

The Cool Springs kitchen arrived as a room that had made its decisions in an earlier decade and then stopped deciding. Black granite countertops, dark cabinetry finishes and a clunky overhead light fixture set the tone, and the brief for its transformation was not complicated. Remove the darkness. Introduce the warmth. Make it feel like the home it is.

Havana Square Recessed MDF Panel cabinetry with Marginal Overlay and a 1/8-inch Radius edge provides the perimeter in soft white painted cabinetry with a Dull Rubbed Varnish finish and a door profile that has the crafted quality of a traditional cabinet with the clean geometry of a transitional one. UV Plywood interior construction gives the cabinet boxes a clean, durable interior. Havana Recessed Panel drawers carry the same profile to the drawer faces, maintaining the room's visual consistency. The paneled hood blends into the cabinetry above the range, avoiding the contrast a separate hood material would introduce and extending the white cabinetry program to the cooking wall.

The island is the kitchen's defining material statement. Custom-built in natural wood, it provides the warm, organic counterpoint that the soft white perimeter calls for: a surface with the grain variation of real wood, integrated wine storage that gives the island its purpose beyond workspace and a wine refrigerator panel that keeps the appliance within the island's visual composition rather than beside it. Taj Mahal polished quartzite on the countertops brings soft, golden veining on a warm white-cream ground and the depth of genuine natural stone.

The Kohler Artifacts pull-down faucet in Vibrant French Gold and the matching wall-mount pot filler above the range bring the fixture program into a single warm gold finish at both the sink and the cooking wall. The Blanco Precis Soft White double bowl sink connects naturally to the soft white cabinetry above it, and a Brizo Polished Gold disposal flange and strainer complete the sink in a warm metallic finish that sits comfortably beside the French Gold faucet. Coffered ceilings add architectural scale, drawing the eye upward in a room the family uses every day, and statement pendants in warm brass within the coffered grid provide task and ambient light in a finish that completes the gold thread.

The kitchen that resulted is a room the household gathers in because it rewards being in.