Who lives here:Jessica Sporn, her husband and their teenage daughter (their other daughter is away at college)Location:Montclair, New JerseySize: 166 square feet (15 square meters)Designer:Tracey Stephens
Before
The layout of their former kitchen didn’t work for these New Jersey homeowners. A peninsula provided seating but impeded traffic in the U-shaped kitchen. 'My clients felt claustrophobic and cut off from everyone when working at the range,' designer Tracey Stephens says. 'And the peninsula created a bottleneck between the kitchen and the dining room.'
After
Stephens took out the peninsula, freeing up the flow, and put a breakfast bar opposite the range. The blues of the new porcelain floor tiles inspired the two-tone cabinet scheme. The homeowner had trouble deciding if she wanted to pluck a navy or an aqua blue from the tile to use on the cabinetry. 'I told her she didn’t have to decide — we could do both,' Stephens says. She chose Aqua-Sphere for the upper cabinets and Naval for the lower, both from Sherwin-Williams.
