Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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28 SPRING 2020 kitchen." The cabinets, from Crown Point Cabinetry in Claremont, New Hampshire, are painted Sherwin Williams Black of Night on the bottom and Sherwin Williams White Flour on top, creating what Dulac refers to as a "tuxedo" aesthetic. "She was so glad that we pushed her to do the dark lowers," says Dulac of Danielle. "I had to really sell that, and in the end she loves it… I like pushing the client a little bit beyond where they think they want to go, and then that end reaction of them realizing that was actually what they did always want or that's what did suit them. I love that." As part of the effort to make the room brighter, the homeowners' priority was to include a lot of natural light. Removing the wall between the old kitchen and the dining room allowed the new design to incorporate three big windows over the central counter, with the sink underneath the middle one. Installing the windows had the desired effect of lightening the room, but presented a new challenge: the need to create symmetry on either side of the bank of windows. The stove hood on the left, which Dulac decided to enclose in cabinetry so as not to detract from the windows, had to be balanced out somehow. She solved this problem with the addition of a glass-front kitchens nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ The Crown Point Cabinetry lower cabinets are painted in a Sherwin Williams Black of Night.