The Eat-in Kitchen: Remodeling 101 - Remodelista
People with eat-in kitchens always describe them as the heart of the house. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, architect Sheila Narusawa, a member of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory, is a firm believer in putting rooms to multiple uses. Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista. In the Cape Cod house she designed for herself and her husband she incorporated the kitchen and dining room into one lofty setup that as she says works equally well for morning oatmeal and for dinner parties The trestle table was a wedding gift from her husband s siblings and was built... ...to Narusawa s exact specifications It s eight feet long and 30 inches wide which she says are the magic numbers if you want a design that has room for people and tableware but still allows for intimate conversations See more of the kitchen and tour the whole house in the Remodelista book A corner table with a built-in bench and vintage French school chairs makes up the dining table in this eat-in kitchen designed by Plain English’s British Standard line. In a bright Sonoma, California, kitchen with a polished concrete floor, a farmhouse dining table is mixed with midcentury-inspired bentwood chairs. Larissa Johnston Architects designed a kitchen in a plywood frame (left) across from a large dining table surrounded by Wishbone Chairs from A London Townhouse Designed to Catch the Light. The dining table in the eat-in kitchen of the Heerlijheid van Marrem guesthouse in West Flanders, Belgium, is well placed to take in views of the surrounding orchards and fields. Designer Jack Hemingway’s retro kitchen features an expandable vintage green dining table for the option of an eat-in kitchen. Costume designer Gordana Golubovic had a built-in bench designed next to her open kitchen for pulling a table and chairs up to. A family kitchen in Seto City, outside of Nagoya, Japan, by custom kitchen company Snedker Woodworking. London architect and designer Ben Pentreath’s eat-in kitchen in his Dorset parsonage speaks of utility as evidenced by the Sheila Maid laundry airer hanging above the AGA range. Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista. Actress Julianne Moore’s newly finished eat-in kitchen in New York occupies the former back parlor of her historic townhouse.