University District — kitchen

The house is a 1920s box, and the kitchen was the room the previous century had been hardest on: a galley closed off from the dining room by a load-bearing wall, with the good light on the wrong side of it.

We took the wall out and carried the load in a beam hidden in the ceiling, then built the room back around a single stone island long enough to eat at. White oak above, black below, and green zellige laid all the way to the underside of the cabinets behind the range.

The oak is ours. The doors, the fluted panels and the tall cabinetry either side of the refrigerator were milled in our shop to the elevations the owners approved, which is the only reason the grain runs continuously across four doors.