Open Invitation The remodeled kitchen presents a spacious, bright, and welcoming composition, which, through a 9-foot-wide opening, is visible from the home's living room and front door. Stools of chrome and white leather at the dining-counter side of the 3X7-foot Parsons table-style island made of scorch- and stain-resistant white quartz let guests visit while meals are prepared on the other side. A prefinished floor of coffee-stained sapele, a durable African hardwood resembling mahogany, visually anchors the room. In front of the glass doors to a backyard deck, floor-length panels of draperies in a blue cotton-linen blend add color and texture "to soften the look," says designer Candice Olson.