Earlier this 12 months, Margot wrote concerning the Upstate New York kitchen of Jennifer June, founding father of Free Elements and the Workshop Kitchen, a modular system that treats cupboards like freestanding furnishings. (You may learn the story right here.) At this time, we’re sharing the every-inch-considered Decrease East Facet kitchen that Jennifer designed for purchasers Darrel and Jeff, a psychiatrist and an journey journey director who cut up their time between New York Metropolis and Upstate.
“The condominium is positioned within the Seward Park Cooperative, inbuilt 1950 for union housing,” says Jennifer. “The earlier house owners had labored with Bench Structure to remodel it right into a loft-like house by including new white oak flooring and exposing the concrete. Darrel and Jeff have been drawn to the sunshine, views, and imaginative and prescient of David Bench. They determined to increase the unique imaginative and prescient with a second section of renovation that included the kitchen (in addition to reworking the tub, including a second tub and constructing closets.”
That’s the place Jennifer and her waste-conscious design ethos got here in. As a substitute of ripping every thing out and putting in a complete new kitchen, she included current kitchen items (together with some hardwearing Ikea merchandise) into the redesign. “We shared an appreciation for reusing what was already there,” she says.
Under, she offers us a tour of the couple’s semi-new, fully reimagined house.
Pictures by Black & Steil, courtesy of Free Elements.
