Kitchen
Kitchen design: Contemporary Euro renovation
Mid-Century Modern dining space
Kitchen
Kitchen design: Contemporary Euro renovation
After putting up with a dated kitchen for almost a decade, this Toronto couple was more than ready to take on a back-to-the-studs renovation.
Alison Dawson’s kitchen serves as a good reminder that, in fact, you can have it all. After living with a cramped cooking space for eight years, she and her partner, Chris McKittrick, embarked on a gut job that opened, brightened and completely modernized the room. But the five-month overhaul, which included renovating their unfinished basement, came with some constraints. “I wanted a super-sleek high-end look, but we had a limited budget,” explains Alison.
When the couple – Alison is a designer of her own textile jewellery line called C’est Joli, and Chris is a business director – purchased this 1,400-square-foot semi-detached house in Toronto's west end 12 years ago, its 1960s decor was still intact. “There was wallpaper on every wall,” says Alison. “Nothing had been done to the place.” And that included the kitchen, with its dark orange and wood palette and sad lack of counter space. “We lived with it for quite some time,” she says. “Too long!”
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