Photography by Matthew Williams, from Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home, except where noted
Recently, while thumbing through our newest book, we noticed a commonality in the kitchens featured: The majority of them are without standard built-in cabinets. Instead, these ingeniously cobbled-together spaces use restaurant tables, antique chests, or homemade shelves to store their cooking tools and pantry items. Take a look.
Artist Yolande Batteau Hirche, the founder of luxe wall coverings studio Callidus Guild, lives in a Brooklyn triplex that was built largely from salvaged materials.
In one corner of the small, off-the-grid one-room cabin of Grace Kapin and Brian Kaplan is an improvised kitchen, anchored by a simple work bench.
All the components in the Canadian kitchen of John Baker and Juli Daoust are designed to be freestanding and moveable—should the family ever move, their kitchen can come with them.
Photograph by Titus Chan for Remodelista
Hudson Valley-based designer Deborah Ehrlich furnished her kitchen with a mix of the reclaimed and the handmade.
Photograph by Justine Hand, from Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home.