There’s a place for absolutely everything in this kitchen

I have to show you my junk drawer.

The true measure of a great kitchen remodel.

Marcia Levy pulls open the drawer. It is wide and flat, and inside are 18 compartments.

Before, I had no idea we had all of these thingies, she says dangling in midair one of six measuring tapes in the what else? measuring-tape compartment. Others are loaded with chip clips, scissors, pens, stickers, tape, flashlights. More.

I love this, she says, pushing the drawer shut.

Next its off to view the garbage-recycle cabinet. And the utensil drawer, eight sections holding spatulas, whisks, spoons. More.

For the most part, Marcia and her husband, Mark, have loved life over the past 20 years in their big, old 1919 Craftsman in the Seward Park neighborhood. Private yard at the end of a private road, large lawn ringed with flowers and trees, all of it splayed before a real Southern belle of a front porch.

It was just the small, dark outdated kitchen that couldnt keep up with a couple who really cooks. It needed rescuing. Something sleek, warm and functional. And that is just what interior designer Alexa Milton did.

Marcia wanted a modern kitchen in lime green, but one that also would suit the old house. Milton did that with custom lime-stained maple cabinets, white subway tile, fawn maple floors, fossil-flecked limestone counters and LED lights in recessed stripes.

Marcia wanted a kitchen where both she and Mark, and sometimes guests, too, could cook together. Milton did that with a bump-out and a new island with a prep sink.

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There’s a place for absolutely everything in this kitchen