My Kitchen Plan

Floor tile repeated in shower niches

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Full-depth upper cabinets

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Vertical shelving in pantry

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Window and floor molding

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Ceiling molding

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Intersecting lines of full-range bluestone and clay brick break the large patio into zones. The overlap of clay brick rectangles help make each zone appear larger.

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Straight lines over curves

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Wall tile stripe

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Sherwin-Williams Foxhall Green Cabinets: Greenfield Cabinetry; cabinet hardware: Channing pull and Kinney cabinet knob, Top Knobs

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Raised walnut seating area over kitchen island

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Glass pantry door

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“Uh-oh” moment. “Installing a full-height backsplash around a curved hood that sits between two cabinet towers on the countertop is not for the faint of heart,” Russell says. “We had to slow down this install process so we could get everything just right. Step one, install the counters. Step two, install the right cabinet tower — but not the left, because we don’t want it to get scratched when we go to put the stone up on the wall. Step three, install a 3-centimeter-thick piece of plywood in the shape of the hood on the wall so that we have something to mount the hood to. Step four, install the full-height backsplash. Step five, install the left cabinet tower, crown molding and hood.”

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