California Country Kitchen
 The owners of this 1890’s San Francisco house had been raised in Ohio around old houses and antiques. They wanted their kitchen to have the warm, Midwest feel they had been brought up with, but wanted it to be a little more contemporary in style.
We designed their California Country style kitchen cabinets with a basic Shaker flat panel door with molded frames, angled Shaker feet, and ogee crown moldings. Some of the drawer fronts are flush, and some are paneled, and the hardware is either brown-stained or painted Shaker wooden knobs. For a more modern accent, we combined some smooth brushed painted cabinets with curly maple doors, using a lighter, more contemporary stain and finish on the curly maple.
The counter tops, sink, and fireplace surround are all soapstone and the barn-red Shaker style island has a brown-stained curly maple top.
Lacking a separate laundry room, a washer/dryer cabinet was built to blend in with the kitchen. Pocket doors were used due to the limited space available.
All wall cabinets have low-voltage undercabinet task lighting.
We also incorporated into our design a very unusual wood, only occasionally available to us. Known as spalted wormy curly maple, it’s a curly maple with dark streaks in the grain, a wood often used by contemporary furniture makers. Small worms bore their way through the living tree and leave behind small holes which only appear when the log is cut into boards. Although the worms are long since gone, killed in the process of drying the wood, the holes they leave behind add texture and interest to the wood which makes it quite popular.
Its unique look really complements this simple kitchen style.
David T. Smith
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