Kitchen Tour: A New Kitchen Designed to Go with a Vintage Pantry
Photography by Lisa Vollmer,
courtesy of Jess Cooney Interiors
The house came with sun-washed rooms, original windows—and a recent history of being nearly condemned. What made Jacque Ivory and her husband, Chris, want to move in was a backroom relic: a preserved walk-in pantry with floor-to-ceiling fir shelves and cabinets. The couple called in interior designer Jess Cooney to tackle the kitchen; take a look at the results and the preserved pantry, too.
The new kitchen occupies the footprint of the original.
Designed to serve as a work table that will get better with age, the island is made of Douglas fir remnants from a local maker of musical instruments.
The twin arched cabinets “follow the lines of an original built-in hutch in the dining room,” says Jess.
The designers used the pantry’s Douglas fir built-ins as inspiration for the kitchen cabinets.
Jacque and Chris have the perfect place for their grandmothers’ china, which they regularly put to use.