A Well-Considered Layout Maximizes This Small Kitchen
Photo by Rebecca McAlpin
If there’s one design term that’s said repeatedly during a home renovation, it’s this: functionality. As interests and technology shift how rooms are used throughout the years, any modern changes are done to service of-the-moment needs. And in the case of this Philadelphia kitchen, which has been on a tree-lined street since the 1940s, the needs of its current owners were not being met. So they called in Libby Rawes, owner and principal designer of Sharp and Grey Interiors, to increase its…well, you know the word.
“A family of five with three young kids live here, and the kitchen had last been updated sometime in the '90s,” Rawes says. “It felt dated in terms of style, with brown granite and brown-and-beige tiles, and the cabinetry and finishes were beginning to show their wear.”
