The triangle is what you create. Whenever you design
a kitchen, we're creating that triangle between the sink
to the stove to the fridge. Love the triangle
. I'm Darren Jett. I'm an interior designer based
in New York and I'm here to help everyone out
today with their kitchens. This is redesign here we
have Kay, this is the kitchen that she submitted
to us. She's telling us it's a 19 oh
seven Lake house in Vermont. You can clearly tell
that this kitchen gets a lot of love and I
mean that in the best way possible, this looks
like a really great place to spend time with family
. So Cathy mentioned that she wanted to redo the
floors and redo the ceiling. If Kay wanted to
remove the ceiling up here, I bet you money
that there is a joist system above. This looks
to be a 70 s era ceiling. Really?
Because you can tell when the appliances are put in
, you can tell when the floor was put in
. First and foremost, let's rip up this linoleum
floor. I bet you there's hardwood floor underneath.
If everything goes well, I'm sure there is,
you can look in the living room that's adjacent right
here and see the hardwood floor. I bet you
it runs in this way as well. And,
you know, it looks like it's a beautiful old
, maybe it's like a farmhouse type of sink.
So let's try to keep it. If we can
. Oftentimes farmhouse will have a sort of drop front
. Usually they're made of a nice porcelain or ceramic
and I'm just going to start adding some cabinets for
her. We have a dishwasher here and what we're
doing here by moving the fridge to this location is
we're creating that triangle that everyone loves to have.
The triangle is what you create. Whenever you design
a kitchen, it's really that zone from going between
sink to the stove to the fridge. If you
think about, you know, you get your groceries
out of the fridge, you go to the sink
to wash your veggies, you start to prep next
to that. So that is really that zone 1
to 3. I really love how Kay has this
place here to have breakfast or maybe it's a place
where people hang out whenever she or someone is cooking
in the kitchen. I would like to maybe kind
of give that its own place in the kitchen.
So maybe over here we can kind of build a
sort of built in banquette situation. A banquet is
a built in bench. So I actually sort of
like these charming sort of American country chairs, these
ones that are painted are actually really cool. So
I'd love to incorporate that style in this kitchen and
just keep the essence of in this new remodel.
So we moved the fridge over here on this wall
and then we added pantry space right here. We
did that because she has these incredible windows and views
that go outside and in the cabinets, we should
do it more of a shaker style instead of it
being a flat panel like this, what it has
is a sort of raised border. Usually it's about
two and a quarter inches on all sides, but
it has a little bit of that kind of raised
profile and then you can put beautiful hardware on top
. I love something from a company like Deval,
which does really incredible hand forged hardware, maybe it's
in brass, something that gets a patina over time
. So these are some initial thoughts for Cathy.
We love Kay and I really hope that Kay invites
me over for her next barbecue. So this is
Tyrese. So he moved into this apartment. It's
a very New York building. The kitchen is clearly
open to the rest of the space that you can
see in these photos here. He doesn't have a
dining area right now. So we're going to help
him out with that. What we need to do
is to take advantage of all this space right here
. I think let's give him a butcher block style
countertop and maybe we do something that's more of a
natural stone material. So if we can just start
to imagine what a table would look like, it
would look something sort of like this again, extra
countertop space. And also when friends come over to
have a drink, they can sit here while he's
, you know, making a drink over by the
sink. So luckily for Tyrese, he already has
the triangle going on. I think this apartment was
designed pretty well except for the lack of an island
, but can start to see here you have the
fridge to the sink, kind of over here to
the stove and then back to the fridge, there
is an island here, sort of table. I
can plot myself down, talk to Tyrese. Is
he making me a cocktail? And then I think
that we're going to have a good night and that's
our advice for Tyrese on how to make his kitchen
into more of an entertaining space. Priscilla Priscilla.
Priscilla, she's coming to us from L A and
she is wanting to redo her kitchen to make it
have a bit more personality. She loves vintage.
She told us that she loves sort of eclectic finds
and eclectic furniture. We don't want to change the
layout too much for Priscilla. It's really working pretty
well. Priscilla has the triangle which is fantastic.
Um She has the sink right here again, it
goes from fridge to sink and then from sink to
stove. And that's your golden triangle. The first
thing I noticed is that it's all white. When
I look at Priscilla, I can tell that she's
not an all white loving person. I think that
she really wants some color. Imagine if the cabinets
were all this kind of like 19 fifties soda shop
blue would be so, so, so cool.
And also like, you know, the cheapest thing
that she could possibly do. I'd love to give
her some color and then I want to have her
just update all of this hardware into something that's a
bit more fun and a bit more of that retro
look. I would do retro inspired hardware. A
lot of times when you walk into homes built in
the 19 fifties, you know, a lot of
these kind of L A bungalows, when you walk
into an original kitchen, you'll see the hardware that
has this kind of cup shape. So get,
you know, some relatively affordable hardware sort of cup
shape that's very retro in style and do it in
a chrome finish that matches all the other retro finishes
in the kitchen. Her faucet over here is actually
pretty cool. I like how it has that sort
of bridge handle that comes out from the wall again
. Very, very retro. And how do we
soften the space? Ok, easily. What we
can do is talk about the rug and talk about
the window treatments, this tiny little rug right here
. Let's give her a runner that goes all the
way through. Ok. Something soft underfoot. A
wool rug is great for a kitchen. Super durable
. If you spill something, it's a natural fiber
, it's easy to get up. Ok, let's
talk about window treatments. She clearly has like pretty
high ceilings. So I would love to give her
something that makes those ceilings feel higher if we do
something like a very simple soft Roman shade above the
window, what that would do is it would make
that space feel much, much, much higher.
Priscilla. I'm trying to give you something that is
very cool, very retro, I think the kitchen
that we're giving you will bring your personality into the
space. So this is Sally, she's retired and
she's looking to update her kitchen. There's a lot
of brown, this really needs more contrast. I
would say that right now the cabinets are matching the
floor way too much. And it's also that very
late nineties, very yellow wood. I really loathe
whenever floors are broken up in one room, it
just, it doesn't make any sense from a flow
perspective. And Sally's house has this little area right
in front of the stove and right in front of
the sink where it looks to be tile. I
would say, look, let's do this whole thing
in the wood. Let's eliminate that completely. An
easy solution is to stain the floor. I would
suggest again, always thinking about the nature of the
house, the character of the house. What I'd
like to do is to uh make the floors more
like the door and the door frame. So I'd
like to replace all the appliances for Sally as well
. This fridge right here, panelize it easy.
This sink right here feels very dated. It has
the two basins. It doesn't make any sense,
have something that is much more of a one basin
, big sink. It's much more user friendly.
It looks better. So just take that out and
let's do a stain on the wood that's maybe not
quite so yellow. Maybe it picks up on some
of the darker finishes of the door over here and
really is more intrinsic with, you know, the
craftsman style of this house. I'll say that the
architecture of the kitchen is actually really nice. I
love this kind of picture window right above the sink
. I think that's very cool. Sally also told
us that her home is really inspired by Frank Lloyd
Wright, the Frank Lloyd Wright style that she's mentioned
the house already has. You can see here,
the prairie window right there above the sink, have
everything be very in tune with nature. Um Let's
pull the outside in, let's really emphasize these beautiful
windows, the stained glass over here and really more
of like a natural color. I would keep this
as an insect cooktop. I wouldn't put it in
a hood because she has this view. Sally.
I think you already have such a wonderful kitchen and
I think all these updates will just make your life
better easier and just have a more beautiful space.
So some of the common issues that we saw today
, really? It's a lot of outdated appliances.
It's a lot of things that don't really make sense
with the house and it's a lot of things that
are just kind of bland and how can we update
those things while keeping the personality in thought your kitchen
is the first thing to date. So it really
should be something that is part of the house.
But there are ways that you can inject your personality
through things like color hardware rugs on the floor,
curtains over the windows. So that's my kitchen advice --> .