Renfrew Kitchen Renovation

Kitchen Renovation on Renfrew Avenue

I am a local designer, working across Ottawa, but mostly in the Glebe and Old Ottawa South. This was a great renovation project of a beautiful home on Renfrew Avenue that I was involved in recently.

The homeowners are lovely people and asked me to redesign their kitchen with custom cabinetry. They didn’t want to move anything as the layout really worked for them, but we did make a few small changes with the layout, updated their front hall, redid the floors, and created some custom cabinetry in the dining room.

The first thing I noticed about the original space was the fantastic stained glass window in the dining room. This was a jumping off point and such a unique asset. So first we pulled together some soft colours that would work with the window. The kitchen cabinets, walls, and ceiling are White Dove by Benjamin Moore, the hall is Setting Plaster by Farrow and Ball (above the trim coloured paneling), and the banquette seating in the dining room is in a Moira spice velvet. Then, to create some tension we picked a few contrasting colours. We picked a pale blue woven rug from Article for the dining room floor to ground the dining table and 3”x 8” Peronda Riad Aqua subway tiles for the backsplash in the kitchen.

A leather finish cement coloured counter and black hardware add a touch of modernity.

The few changes we made in the layout involved removing the upper cabinets over the sink to open the space up, and then extending the counter into the dining room to create some counter seating. We also removed upper cabinets next to the window and changed the storage there into open floating shelves. The cabinets also extend to the ceiling with crown molding that goes very well with the style of the home.

Overall a great transformation for a calm space!