Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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26 SUMMER 2019 W HEN AN ESSEX COUPLE FIRST APPROACHED Paula Accioly, they desperately needed a fresh set of eyes. It was 2016 and the couple was in the midst of planning their first shared home, built on a site brushing up against marshlands and all order of natural beauty. But there was one major hiccup: they weren't fond of the kitchen, a vanilla-looking design centered on an L-shaped layout, a seen-it-before island, and unexceptional details. After switching architects, the couple visited the Boston showroom for Jewett Farms + Co., where Ac- cioly serves as lead designer and showroom man- ager, for a dose of inspiration. In the showroom, they beamed over the cabinet joinery, discovered ideas for woods and finishes—and departed with a new designer for their perfect kitchen. "These clients saw what we did and said, 'I love this. Now please make kitchens nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ A large center island is perfect for prep work as well as serving casual meals. something that will work for us,'" Accioly says. "They really trusted in what we would design for them." Before finalizing plans in September 2017 and completing the project in late 2018, the kitchen design evolved out of a fruitful, unique collaboration. Elaine Scales—the architect from Jamaica Plain-based Scales Architecture, who took over the project and substan- tially changed the bones of the home—worked with Accioly to complement the new vision for the kitchen. They shrank windows to make room for a larger hutch, resized doorways and pushed back walls to free up space for a breakfast area, and emphasized views of the outside scenery wherever possible. "I always find that being introduced to a project in the begin- ning can impact the kitchen design a lot," Accioly adds. "Instead of figuring out how to fit cabinets into an existing environment, our input in the layout prior