Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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26 SPRING 2020 W HEN JEN DULAC, COFOUNDER OF SWAMPSCOTT'S Trim Design Co., was tasked with redesigning the kitchen in a 1940s Colonial in Marblehead, she knew it would be a challenge to create a light, airy interior in the long, narrow galley space. The room remained slim despite being recently expanded after a previous renovation moved the dining room to the front of the house. The original kitchen was thin and dark, while the new kitchen would just be thin. But not dark. The homeowners, Danielle and Steve Hallisey, were determined for it to be light. Danielle preferred it to be totally white, in fact. "The old kitchen was incredibly dark—so dark and so cramped; it was like a cave," says Dulac. "She wanted an all-white kitchen because she was so done with the dark kitchen." Dulac and her team pushed hard to include dark lower cabinets for "a little touch of glamour—a Parisian bistro look so it didn't just look like sterile white nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ Jen Dulac offers a clean black and white aesthetic in this Marblehead kitchen. kitchens