A custom hood, RK International hardware, and Sol y Luna Girón barstools from Monc XIII jazz up the white kitchen of a young family’s home in Scarsdale, New York, decorated by Tamara Magel.
For his own home in Healdsburg, California, designer Collin Burry chose Trinity Millwork cabinetry, Caesarstone countertops, and Miele ovens for the kitchen, which is bathed in light, thanks to a skylight and a wall of windows.
At Tick Hall—a shingle-style house built in 1882 by McKim, Mead & White that’s perched above the bluffs in Montauk—talk-show host and television personality Dick Cavett and his wife, Martha Rogers, add warmth to the kitchen with a wood ceiling, brick-pattern ceramic flooring, and china displayed in glass-front cabinetry.
Vaulted ceilings with reclaimed-oak beams, a chandelier from Balzac Antiques, and vintage bamboo chairs from 1stdibs lend warmth to this rustic-chic kitchen Fairfield, Connecticut, kitchen designed by Lisa Hildebrand.
White cabinetry, a quartz-topped island, and plenty of windows provide an airy quality to this Wainscott, New York, kitchen designed by Nathan Thomas of Bruce Bierman Design.
Faith Rose and Devin O’Neill of O’Neill Rose Architects made natural light a priority when they reimagined the small galley kitchen in a Brooklyn Heights duplex, creating an open-plan kitchen and dining area unified by a wall of cerused white oak cabinets.
White upper cabinets and Caesarstone countertops make the lower dark wood cabinets feel fresh in this Paul Latham–designed country house near Kent, Connecticut.
Although the Sonoma County farmhouse of photographers Trinette Reed and Chris Gramly is petite, architect Paul Baird opened up the floor plan to capitalize on the home’s natural light, making the space feel larger.
White-oak cabinetry, Waterworks tile, a Wolf range, and a hood by RangeCraft add character to the sunny kitchen of a circa-1910 house in Southampton designed by Steven Gambrel.
At his St. Helena, California, compound, architect Shay Zak created a bright great room that contains a sleek kitchen, a dining area, and two living spaces; the pendant is FontanaArte and the trestle table is by RH.
This article appears in the December 2017 issue of NYC&G (New York Cottages & Gardens).