When your house is the one family and friends come to for
holidays, summer get-togethers and a host of other social
occasions, a dark, traditional kitchen with a two-level island
just won’t cut it. So when a Kinnelon couple wanted a
lighter, brighter, more open space to better host their many
guests, they sought out the help of Sharon L. Sherman,
designer at Thyme & Place Design in Wyckoff.
“They have a big family and are big party people,” says
Sherman of the homeowners and their three college-aged kids.
“We designed the kitchen to accommodate large parties.”
That meant leveling out the existing island for more
surface space and putting show-stopping white quartz Viatera
countertops from Stone Surfaces in its place. The new wet bar
area, one of the homeowners’ requests, features a second sink
with a Delta Trinsic faucet. The lady of the house also wanted
dark accents to counteract the stark white, so Sherman chose
black light fixtures from Visual Comfort and completed the
look with complementary gray porcelain subway tile.
The whole renovation took about six weeks start to finish.
“They had leaky skylights so we had to replace those,”
Sherman adds. “It was pretty involved.”
It was worth it to create a truly party-worthy kitchen. The
80 final result? Just plain pretty.|
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