2010 National Kitchen & Bath Association Awards
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The annual competition among members of the Minnesota chapter of the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) brings out the best in local kitchen and bath transformations. If you suspect—or hope—there’s a kitchen or bath remodel in your home’s future, take a look at what talented Minnesota designers can do for you.
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Re-Envisioned Classic
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First Place: Large and Open Kitchen
(Greater than 50 square feet of countertops and/or including additional spaces such as great rooms, breakfast nooks, and dining rooms)
Designer: Carol Sadowsky, CKD
The Woodshop of Avon, Edina
The kitchen in this Kenwood home had several points of entry, but not a lot of reasons for going in and out. An early 1980s remodel left the home a bit out of sorts until designer Carol Sadowsky of The Wood Shop at Avon created a design that incorporated the owners’ desires: a re-envisioned kitchen with a functional back entry, mudroom, and powder room. Sadowsky expanded the kitchen by eliminating a back-entry door and seldom-used back staircase. She relocated two doors to create a better flow in the kitchen, and add a functional mudroom space and powder room. She opened a shared wall between the dining room and kitchen, and added French pocket doors to give the space more versatility for formal and informal gatherings. In the kitchen, Sadowsky added new transom windows that allow natural light to flow into the room, period-appropriate inset cabinetry, soapstone countertops, and a marble backsplash. A secondary prep area under an original wall of windows maximizes the space and preserves an important architectural feature.
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Old World Luxe
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Second Place (TIE): Large and Open Kitchen
(Greater than 50 square feet of countertops and/or including additional spaces such as great rooms, breakfast nooks, and dining rooms)
Designer: Peter Harms
North Star Kitchens, Minneapolis
Co-Designer: Tom Rauscher
Rauscher & Associates, Minneapolis
The owner of this home made an unusual request of designers Peter Harms and Tom Rauscher: He wanted a masculine kitchen. Taking cues from the homes of twentieth-century lumber barons, Harms and Rauscher designed a space with timeless style and brought in the luxuries of modern technology. They carefully preserved the room’s lake views by creating a layout that divided the space into working zones: prep and cooking, clean–up and dish storage, and a secondary kitchen area for additional storage. Using natural materials, such as stone for the countertops and hand-glazed tile, as well as walnut and limestone floors, the designers transformed the large space into an entertaining area. The Old World feel continues with mahogany and burled walnut veneers set into the cabinetry, and a handcrafted cooking range aged to look a century old. A Scagliola stone hood, designed to set off the inlaid floor, hand-carved pilasters, moldings, and detailed beams complement the home’s architecture.
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Prairie Classic
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Second Place (TIE): Large and Open Kitchen
(Greater than 50 square feet of countertops and/or including additional spaces such as great rooms, breakfast nooks, and dining rooms)
Designer: David Heide
David Heide Design Studio, Minneapolis
David Heide’s design motto, “honoring the past, anticipating the future,” is perfectly apropos for the kitchen remodel in this Prairie School-style home. The owners of the historic St. Paul residence requested a larger and more visible contemporary kitchen that would simultaneously maintain the home’s architectural integrity and accommodate their growing family and modern lifestyle. Heide took his cues from the historic language of the house, using existing elements as his inspiration for the size, scale, and proportions of the addition, as well as its finishes. Designing custom-crafted cabinets, lights, and other fixtures, Heide assured that the style of the new kitchen would maintain the character of the rest of the house. The careful arrangement of the space, including a breakfast bar, gives the room a sense of compartmentalization in keeping with the historic room arrangements—while still providing a more open, modern feel.
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Rustic and Regal
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Second Place (TIE): Large and Open Kitchen
(Greater than 50 square feet of countertops and/or including additional spaces such as great rooms, breakfast nooks, and dining rooms)
Designer: Carol Sadowsky, CKD
The Woodshop of Avon, Edina
Co-Designer: Bruce Kading
Beson Kading Interior Design Group, Minneapolis
Carol Sadowsky and Bruce Kading designed this kitchen and adjoining family room, to allow for easy flow among the home’s adjoining spaces, making it well suited for entertaining. The rustic lodge motif of this newly constructed lake home extends into these areas with unique fixtures and finishes, including an aged copper hood surround and custom pewter countertop in the kitchen. The cabinetry is designed with a furniture look, complementing the hand-hewn reclaimed wood beams of the ceiling and reclaimed wood floors. Modern efficiency isn’t overlooked, as evidenced by the large island with seating, serving peninsula, and stainless-steel appliances.
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Glowing Luxury
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First Place (Tie): Medium Kitchen
(Between 35 square feet and 50 square feet of countertops)
Designer: Mary L Maney, AKBD
Crystal Kitchen Center, Crystal
Their condo’s stark white cabinets, floors, and appliances were the least of the owners’ worries when they visited Mary L Maney at the Crystal Kitchen Center. The downtown condo kitchen needed to be opened up: the owners constantly bumped into each other while preparing meals and entertaining was a less-than-enjoyable endeavor. Maney created a more contemporary feel to the kitchen by knocking out the half wall that divided the kitchen from the living room, and bringing in horizontal grain engineered-oak cabinets, stacked metallic porcelain tile in the backsplash, and a boomerang-shaped countertop. The pendant lights on a monorail track and puck lights highlight the owner’s accessories on open shelves, while softening the room. The kitchen also feels cozier with the sleek, black laminate base cabinets, cream floor tile, warm, walnut wood on the raised counter, and smooth, white Corian countertop and sink.
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