Kitchens and pantries
Kitchens and pantries
Rooms where people gather, with cabinetry drawn for the house.
A kitchen is where the plan of a house gets tested every day. The design agreement starts with how you cook and who is in the room, and works outward to layout, cabinetry, lighting and ventilation. The cabinetry is drawn for your walls, not chosen from a catalog, and the schedule is written around what takes longest to arrive.
What the design agreement covers
Layout options with the traffic through the room
Cabinetry and millwork, drawn for your walls
Appliance and fixture selections, with lead times
Lighting, ventilation and power plans
Stone, tile and finish selections
What shapes the project
Four things set the shape of the project
The layout
Where the work happens, where people stand and what opens to the next room. Moving a wall changes everything after it.
Cabinetry and millwork
Drawn for the room, built to the drawings, and finished to match the trim in the rest of the house.
Lead times
Appliances, stone and special fixtures can take months. They are ordered early, and written into the schedule.
Ventilation and power
A serious range needs makeup air and a serious circuit. These are drawn in design, not found in construction.
How it goes
The work, in order
- 01
Step 1: Brief and layout
We spend time on how you cook, then draw layouts and walk them through.
- 02
Step 2: Cabinetry and selections
Elevations of every wall, samples of every surface.
- 03
Step 3: Pricing and ordering
A build agreement, and the long-lead items ordered at once.
- 04
Step 4: Construction
Protected route, dust walls and a temporary kitchen if you want one.
- 05
Step 5: Handover
A walk-through, the appliance manuals and the terms for repairs afterward.
Examples
Sample photographs, scope beside each
Sample photos.
Questions
Questions about this work
Can we live in the house while the kitchen is built?
Usually yes. We build a dust wall, protect a route to the door and can set up a temporary kitchen in another room. Plan on a few weeks of simpler meals.
When do you order the appliances?
Once you have signed the build agreement, or earlier if you ask us to. Long-lead items go first, because they decide the schedule.
Who handles permits?
We prepare the drawings and the application, and we deal with the building department. You sign where the town requires the owner's signature. Near the water, or in a historic district, other reviews can apply, and we tell you which during design.
What happens when something changes mid-project?
It is written down before it is built. A change has a page that says what changes, what it does to the schedule and what it does to the price, and work on it starts once you have signed.
Next step
Planning a kitchen?
Tell us how you cook and what the room does today. We will say how design would go.