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East Vancouver Kitchen Facelift
A playful teal kitchen that changed everything except the plumbing.
ProjectKitchen Facelift
LocationEast Vancouver
ServiceFull-Service Design
StatusLived in
Concept rendering · A HART HOUS design.
The brief
Where it started
These clients wanted a kitchen that looked like them: more playful, more cohesive and a little more fun to be in every day. It needed to feel entirely new, and it needed to stay on budget.
Concept + before
The design
Before
BeforeThe decisions that made it work
3 decisions, and why I made them.
01Keep what’s expensive to moveLeaving the plumbing and appliances where they were put the budget into the parts you see and feel every day.02Let colour do the heavy liftingTeal cabinetry gives the kitchen its personality and ties the room together. A slatted island, open wood shelving and a patterned backsplash finish the story.03A facelift, not a gutThe layout stayed familiar; the kitchen didn’t. A focused refresh gave it a completely different identity.
Status: lived in
Finished, and lived in
My clients moved in and made it theirs. No staged photo shoot, just a home that works the way it was planned to.
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