The Kitchen at Our Franklin Contemporary Remodel

The Westhaven kitchen earns the word contemporary through material specificity rather than restraint alone. This is a kitchen that commits to its contrasts: warm Alder wood against dark Forged Steel, leathered quartz with genuine texture against the clean flat faces of the cabinetry, elongated wall tile that reads as architectural cladding against the precision of the Schluter trim at every edge.

Alder cabinetry in a Nutmeg stain with Notable Series doors provides the kitchen's warmth at the perimeter and shelving positions. Nutmeg is a rich, golden-brown stain that brings out the grain of Alder without pushing it toward rustic: it reads as warm and considered, the kind of wood tone that photographs well at every time of day and looks better after years of daily contact. Custom shelf brackets give the open shelving program a handcrafted quality that standard shelf hardware cannot match. Paint-grade cabinetry in Forged Steel at the island and bar accent positions introduces the kitchen's dark contrast: a deep charcoal that grounds the composition and prevents the warmth of the Nutmeg from reading as soft.

Two leathered Mikado quartz surfaces provide the countertops. Siberia White Leathered on the perimeter is a white quartz with a texture that catches light in a way that polished quartz cannot, creating a surface that reads as both refined and genuinely tactile. Wet Concrete Leathered on the bar island is a cooler, concrete-toned surface that echoes the kitchen's dark cabinetry accents while staying in the same material family as the countertops above it. The decision to use two different leathered quartz colors within the same kitchen is the design move that makes the kitchen genuinely unique: not a matching set, but a coordinated pair.

Filetto Camel Ceramic wall tile in an 18 x 47 format with Mapei Mocha grout covers the kitchen and bar walls. At nearly four feet tall, the tile reads as wall cladding scaled to the room rather than a backsplash detail. Mapei Mocha grout in a tone that warms the Camel tile body without contrasting it gives the wall surface an organic continuity. Schluter Jolly Tredline TSB Beige provides the trim at every edge transition, completing the tile installation with the precision that a contemporary material program requires.