An existing, closed-in kitchen and dining room in a typical center-hall Colonial house were opened to one another and to the exterior light-filled side of the house by removing separation walls, extending the kitchen side to side to increase storage and allowing it to extend to that exterior wall to introduce more light into the space. A measure of privacy between kitchen and dining was retained with a banquette-like cabinet on the dining room side of the two-sided kitchen cabinetry and a sand-blasted wall panel above the cabinetry provided further masking between the spaces. The kitchen cabinetry line adjacent to the dining room ends with a lower, stone-topped moveable countertop which could function as a moveable eating or work surface. On the opposite wall, continuous, full height pantry-like cabinet units more than doubled the original kitchen’s storage capacity.
