Home Awards: Best New Kitchen
Designed from scratch, this dream kitchen boasts cooking and prep zones, ample storage, and a striking color palette.
Sandee and David Kirchhoff loved the land but not the house. The '50s ranch the stay-at-home-mom and her business executive husband bought in Darien, Connecticut, sat on a beautiful property. But the home had to go. Sandee, an avid cook, wanted a great kitchen, so the couple's architect, Kevin Huelster of Westport, Connecticut, positioned the space right smack in the center of the two-story, five-bedroom cottage-style home he designed for them.
"The kitchen didn't need to be fancy," Sandee says. "It just needed to work well." Throughout the planning phase, the homeowner brought folders full of research -- on cabinetry, countertops, appliances, and flooring -- to her kitchen designer, Briarcliff Manor, New York-based Jason Landau. Sandee had another wish, no less important than efficiency: The room had to be red. "I love that color," she explains, "and I'd had two white kitchens before. To make sure he understood, I brought Jason a paint chip."
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