Residential Kitchen
NW Apartment Kitchen
Under $30,000
GRAND AWARD

This small kitchen (tiny) in a downtown DC apartment building was an exercise in space utilization.

1) The client wanted to open the kitchen to the rest of the small one bedroom apartment. She also had a number of appliances that she had to fit into the plan. Our goal was to give her as much storage and counter space as possible.

2) The choice of Fieldstone cabinets, granite tops, stainless steel GE appliances (oven and cook top), Fisher & Paykel dishdrawer, and Sub-Zero under-counter refrigerator/freezer units and tile floor created an attractive furniture look to the kitchen so that it added to the ambiance of the small apartment.

3) We added molding in the living area to tie in with the existing built-in bookshelves.

4) The challenges were numerous. The first was working in a tight space with not a lot of swing space for storage. The second difficulty was that all the walls were plaster and there was an elevator shaft directly behind the kitchen. Wires could not be trenched or fished but had to be run below or in the cabinets in raceway.