This Kitchen Makeover Makes the Case for Bold Color Blocking – Architectural Digest

AFTER: The mint green wall balances the deep tones of the teal cabinets and the yellow shine of the brass backsplash and hardware.

So Camille and Carole set about reorganizing the space, focusing on relocating elements and circulation so that their clients living-dining-cooking spaces flowed better and centered around an unexpected multifunctional feature: two back-to-back benches, one for the dining table and the other for the living room, says Camille. By placing the bench so that it serves both the kitchen/dining and living rooms, it also acts as a de facto divider between the two spaces. To further delineate this separation, they placed a partition with clear glass and a black frame that stretched from the top of the bench to the underside of the ceiling. The glass partition was a specific request from the client, drawing the eye up to the high ceiling while still maintaining views across the spaces.

The wall in the kitchen is painted with Farrow & Balls Teresas Green.

In the kitchen, Coci Studio further emphasized the ceiling height with two different strategies: We extended the cabinets up to the ceiling along one wall, using the verticality of the space, and then along another wall only used lower cabinets. The two opposite strategies play with a single characteristic of the space, explains Camille. When it came to deciding on a material palette, the idea was for the kitchen to be a composition of elements in brass, marble, and light, Camille says. A white marble countertop with undulating yellow-gray veining contrasts with a shining brass backsplash, cabinet hardware, and toe kickall set against a mint background, free of upper cabinets that would clutter the space. The lower cabinets and an adjacent wall with full-height cabinetry were outfitted with wood doors, but rather than leaving them with a natural finish, Coci Studio selected a deep green stain that employed a dramatic color choice without totally masking the movement and organic nature of the wood.

The ash wood cabinets contrast with the Portuguese marble countertop, which has grooves cut into the countertop for drainage.

A key element of the kitchen was the ventilation hood, which Camille notes is usually not the most attractive object in the kitchen. Its often overlooked, camouflaged. But, she determined, it has the potential to be a beautiful focal point, giving character to a kitchen, and so Coci Studio clad it in the same shining brass as the backsplash and gave it a strong, sleek geometrical form. It sits almost like a piece of sculpture on the wall, simple yet evocative.

The spice shelf was custom-made with hooks and a towel rack.

The table in the living area marries the marble of the kitchen counters and the metal of the glass partition.

In the living room, Camille and Carole continued elements found in the kitchen, designing a small coffee table with the rest of the marble from the countertop and continuing the same metal used for the glass partition frames. We imagined this space as a whole where each element responds to one other, notes Camille, and the consistency and mix of playful materials across the multiple spaces reflects this perfectly.

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This Kitchen Makeover Makes the Case for Bold Color Blocking - Architectural Digest