Like many Bay Area homes, this house had a kitchen with restricted access, both literally and visually, to the back garden. With our design we removed extraneous walls, filled in a small, awkward porch, and added a long bank of windows to open up the crowded dark space. A subtly curved archway replaced the narrow doorway between the kitchen and the dining room, and a new bay window with built-in cabinets was added to be directly inline with the archway opening.

The dark stained wood floors provide a crisp contrast to the white painted cabinets, and the carrara marble countertops. Narrow casement windows were inserted beside the range so that natural light comes in from all three sides of the kitchen.

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