Best of Design 2023: This New Kitchen Has Beautiful “Earrings”
Pictures COURTESY COSTA HOMEBUILDERS
When Ga Phillips was dreaming up a kitchen for her new property, she quickly realized what she didn’t want.
“I redid our kitchen two or three decades in the past,” she states. “It was beautiful, but I did it all in white. For this new kitchen, I selected the colour palette. I needed warm tones and a large amount of contrast and just went from there.”
She and her husband, Bob, labored with Costa Homebuilders in Elizabeth Borough to design and style their sleek-and-modern-day place in Peters, which judges named Finest New Kitchen area this calendar year.
The modern day place functions chocolate-brown cupboards flanked by a quartzite backsplash and countertop, chrome fixtures, stainless-steel appliances and a 10-foot-by-4.5-foot, quartzite-and-wood island.
Placing the design aside is the summary chrome light fixture that floats higher than the kitchen island.
“People are fearful of lights,” Phillips suggests. “I view the light fixture as the earrings on best of a beautiful outfit that is the first thing your eyes are drawn to. The trick is to get the scale appropriate. I’ve seen so several folks with lovely kitchens and they have this rinky-dink, out-of-area light. I feel it cheapens the house.
“I wished anything clean up and modern but not occupied. I think we bought there.”
Our Greatest of Style judges agree.
“I believed the wooden tones included a whole lot of heat to the composition,” claims choose Stephanie Schill Hayden, an architect at Schill Architecture in Cleveland.
“I believe this is clean and basic but even now a truly sturdy, effectively-intended kitchen,” provides decide Katie Savakis, a task designer at Vocon, which has workplaces in New York City and Cleveland.
Anthony Ferrare, sales supervisor with Costa Homebuilders, notes the enterprise worked carefully with their customers to meet their requires.
“Their kitchen is seamlessly integrated concerning the entry from the garage and rolls into the good area,” he suggests. “It genuinely is the central hub of the property, the heart.”
Costa also partnered with Canonsburg General Woodcrafting to locate Phillips’ preferred shade of brown for the cupboards.
“The wooden is essentially cherry, but we experienced them sealed with the true colour I required so they aren’t pulling the red out,” Phillips explains.
Ferrare notes the property was built for a family members with slicing-edge taste. “They experienced a vision and came to us, and we assisted them make it materialize,” he suggests.
When planning her new household with Costa, Phillips states she budgeted extra for the kitchen to add custom characteristics these types of as a designed-in Bosch coffee maker, an underneath-the-counter ice maker and a Sub-Zero beverage cooler positioned near the back again doorway for straightforward obtain when entertaining.
“They authorized us to be as associated as we required to be,” she says.
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Architectural Structure: Costa Homebuilders
Interior Design: Ga and Bob Phillips
Basic Contractor: Costa Homebuilders
Cabinetry: Canonsburg Common Woodcrafting
Countertops: Primo Marble & Granite