Kitchen
Kitchen design: Timeless modern revamp
A once drab kitchen gets a lesson in function and modern update.
Kitchen
Kitchen design: Timeless modern revamp
A renovated Toronto kitchen provides an important lesson in function and modern timeless design.
Homeowners Lydia Kunicki and Robert Haggan fell in love with several aspects of the 80-year-old home they purchased five years ago in Toronto’s Bloor West neighbourhood: magnificent millwork, a private ravine setting and proximity to Lydia’s family. “But the place had been neglected and the kitchen was too small,” she says. A wall diving the tiny galley cooking space from the dining room impeded entertaining, and the lack of storage meant pots and pans had to be kept in the basement. “It was also really dark,” adds Lydia. “We knew right away that we wanted to blow it open to the view.”
And blow it open they did. A gut job on the main floor included removing the dividing wall and putting in wall-to-wall windows and sliding doors framed in warm wood to match the millwork elsewhere. With light pouring into the emptied open space design, the couple turned to designer and Style at Home design editor Stacy Begg to create a new kitchen with lots of storage.
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