Efficient Pantry For All the Food
Posts Tagged ‘kitchen’
More progress at Valley Street
Posted in Design Projects, tagged black & white, color, dining room, kitchen, panty, process, storage on October 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »
More Snapshots of a Recent Whimsical Kitchen Project
Posted in Design Projects, tagged cherry, copper, cork, curves, flow, kitchen, remodel, stained glass, turquoise on October 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
A key part of the design was adding this door from the kitchen to the back part of the house (and future back deck)
As you can see below, this also gave the bedroom a better connection to the bathroom and more privacy.
These curvy shelves and cherry peninsula were just icing on the cake.
The homeowner is a bicycle enthusiast (and an artist)
Very cool,.
Final Details Underway
Posted in Design Projects, tagged addition, color, indoor-outdoor, kitchen, minimalist, orange, pantry, process, punchlist, rearrange, remodel on October 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »
This Berkeley addition and full house remodel is almost finished and we are all very excited.
I’ll do a full post with before and after photos soon, but I can’t resists giving you a preview. Steve Coleman is the contractor.
Simple Kitchen Lighting
Posted in Design Projects, tagged kitchen, lighting design, utility, value on September 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Quiet North Berkeley Full House Remodel
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, kitchen, lighting design, pantry, remodel, small house, walnut on September 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Lighting from Metrolighting and Crafts, Custom cabinetry by Freedman & Chesley, Emeryville, General Construction – Accolade Construction, Palo Alto, Interior Decorating – Ballon Studio
This remodel included rearranging the entire floor plan (1055 SF), vaulting the living room ceiling, All new windows, stucco, venitian plaster throughout, insulation, lighting, plumbing, adding a bathroom and pantry, and a curvy concrete deck. A very cozy and efficient little house for a downsizing couple with kids off in the world. Ample storage is key to living in a small house. Many different strategies were employed from pantries to closets with barn doors to custom cabinets.
Hobbit door from Real Carriage Door, Handrail prefabricated by Architectural Metalsmiths, Richmond, Stone veneer on porch & steps by Accolade Construction.
Rockridge Kitchen Tour!
Posted in Design Projects, tagged angles, ash, chicago faucet, details, fir, granite, kitchen, LED, LED lights, Oakland, remodel, remodelling, shelving, zinc on August 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
This fun kitchen was selected for the 2015 Rockridge Kitchen Show! Come take a tour on Sept 20. Tickets available here.
Photos by Nancy Kalter-Dills.
- Photo by N Kalter-Dills
- whole kitchen
- angles
- more angles
- california cooler drawers
- california cooler
- pantry
This was actually part of a whole house remodel. Click for ASBUILT FLOORPLAN and NEW FLOORPLAN to see how the house was rearranged.
Kitchen expansion +
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, efficiency, houses, interiors, kitchen, LED lighting, lighting, lighting design, pantry, small buildings, storage, utilitarian, value, wood on July 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The most important component of this project was rearranging things to make the most of various spaces in a small house. There had been several strange additions over the years that made for a lot of wasted space.

Looking east in this spacious new kitchen with fir cabinets, vaulted ceiling, corner windows, LED lights,
We added about 65 SF and way more storage. The old kitchen was actually a hallway with constant traffic flow through the work area. Now traffic stays away from the main work area.

Kitchen before addition and remodel
1) New closets in the master bedroom 2) More efficient laundry room by moving one door and adding shelves and counter 3) Water heater moved to exterior and utility room converted to pantry 4) Kitchen expanded to keep the traffic out of the work area 5) Easy attic storage created

Nice Big Pantry

Vaulted ceiling creates room for a large pendant light

We also added an attic access stair for even more storage!
Photo Credit – Nancy Kalter-Dills
Addition & Remodel with Roof Deck Proceeding Rapidamente in Berkeley
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, framing, houses, kitchen, process on July 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Fir Kitchen Addition on Rose Street
Posted in Design Projects, tagged fir, kitchen, pantry on July 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
We recently finished this kitchen expansion project in Berkeley. Nice work Greenfield Builders! Photos courtesy of Chris D’Andrea the general contractor (Greenfield Builders)
Curvy Kitchen Shelves in Turquoise
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, cabinets, curves, kitchen, process on October 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

This is the unfinished kitchen of a creative scientist. I helped him with many aspects of the design, including these shelves, but he and the builder are a creative force to be reckoned with. The shelves curve in plan and get bigger as they go up. The cabinet maker will return to rebuild the center three verticals with angles like the end panels. I will post another picture. Still to come a curvy peninsula and new countertop and floor. I will also get pictures of the whole kitchen when it is finished.
Homeowner is Artistically Stocking Her Angled Pantry Shelves
Posted in Design Projects, tagged angles, cabinets, details, kitchen, Oakland, Rockridge on September 30, 2014| 1 Comment »



































