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Create A Kitchen:
The design challenge for Janie Fain of JF Interiors when she remodeled the kitchen area of a 1932 San Marino Spanish Revival home was to create a kitchen a functional area from the small, dark kitchen that desperately needed updating. The owners love to cook, and Fain needed to find new storage space as well as make the entire kitchen area more inviting."The kitchen is usually the first room a homeowner wants to remodel," explained Christine Santana, president of the Pasadena chapter of ASID. A well-designed kitchen improvement can add thousands of dollars to a home's value; most of the cost can be recouped at sale, according to ASID members. One of the tour homes, a 1941 ranch-style home in the Linda Vista area, was completely updated by Michele Hughes for a young professional couple. After the remodeling, all that was left of the original kitchen were exterior walls and foundation. A marble-topped chef's Table now forms the centerpiece of the newly designed kitchen. Textured beams added to the ceiling create a kitchen a feeling of coziness along with a color scheme that unifies the house and garden. Two rooms of the house have been adapted as work areas and feature sophisticated storage spaces with custom cabinetry.
A long window takes up one Wall of this kitchen, flooding it with light. To make the most of this, the walls are painted a soft, off-white shade, which also helps create a kitchen a sense of space in what is a fairly compact kitchen. White units further increase the airy feel while soft green mosaics with a border of black make a chic splashback with colour that warms up the room. Vinyl Flooring in a dark, slate grey ties in with the black mosaic and anchors the whole scheme.
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