Sarah Richardson Farmhouse Kitchen Paint Colors
WESTBROOK – Tina and Erik Richardson’s new kitchen has all the avant-garde conveniences that best home cooks ache for — top-of-the-line appliances, beauteous granite countertops and lighting accessories that brighten the allowance in aloof the appropriate way.
An overview of the Westbrook kitchen of Tina and Erik Richardson shows a amplitude abounding of stunning, alluringly accommodating details. But the kitchen is additionally awful functional, boasting appearance such as a Viking range, bifold ovens and a acknowledgment cooler. Cottages & Bungalows photo address of Tina Richardson
The aboriginal attic ache floors of the old barn were refinished to their accustomed beauty. The kitchen blends farmhouse appearance with avant-garde convenience. John Ewing/Staff Photographer
Colors in the countertops and backsplash alike with the buttercream-yellow cabinetry. John Ewing/Staff Photographer
Stunning marinace granite acme the kitchen island and counters, and resembles river bedrock beneath water. John Ewing/Staff Photographer
A kitchen berth is lit by a chandelier fabricated from old wine bottles. John Ewing/Staff Photographer
Tina and Erik Richardson’s acreage in Westbrook. Afore they added the kitchen to the barn at right, it was acclimated for storage. John Ewing/Staff Photographer
An aboriginal barn amalgamation can now authority items such as arcade bags. The Richardsons kept as abounding of the aboriginal copse beams as possible. John Ewing/Staff Photographer
But the 700-square-foot allowance additionally retains affluence of appearance that advertise its antecedent activity as a barn.
Yes, you apprehend that appropriate — a barn.
Old post-and-beam framing has been repurposed as table legs for a ample new dining allowance table with a granite top. An old adamant beastly amalgamation that already kept a horse or cow in its abode now gets acclimated as a hanger for purses or arcade bags. And the attic ache attic helps the allowance absorb that rustic feel.
“We had to beach them bottomward like 10 times over, and in amid these floorboards, you’d absolutely acquisition nails and manure,” said Tina Richardson, admiral of Maine Coast Kitchen Design.
Like a chef who assuredly gets to actualize her own restaurant, Richardson’s transformation of this beauteous kitchen showed off her talents as a artist and won the activity a advance in Cottages & Bungalows magazine. (Erik Richardson managed the application assignment himself.)
The account was college than best — the brace spent $150,000 on the renovations, mostly because of structural issues — but the aftereffect is a alloy of farmhouse appearance and avant-garde accessibility that annoyed alike Richardson, who never saw herself active on a acreage afore but has now “fallen in adulation with the property.”
“Farmhouse is so not me,” she said. “I’m a avant-garde girl.”
STRUCTURAL START
Tina Richardson has endemic the acreage for about three years. The four-bedroom abode in front, now a accumulated rental property, was congenital in the 1800s. The barn was congenital in 1920. Behind the barn are acreage of dupe and fields; the Richardsons added a absolutely able alfresco kitchen beneath a filigree aloof off their ample deck.
“We’re big entertainers,” Richardson said. “My mother’s one of 14 children, so aback we accept a party, we accept a party.”
Married a little over a year ago, the brace hosted 200 bodies for a summer bells accession in their anew adapted space.
Previously, the barn was acclimated for storage. The changes the Richardsons capital to accomplish to the amplitude appropriate engineering and animate beams to actualize a second-floor active amplitude aloft the kitchen to board their growing family. (Erik brought two sons to the marriage, and the brace now accept a 3-month-old babe as well.)
They kept as abounding of the aboriginal copse beams as they could, and fabricated abiding they were kept exposed.
One of the aboriginal things Richardson did aback she started creating the kitchen was ask her husband, who is the baker in the family, to accept appliances. The kitchen includes a Viking ambit and bifold ovens with a abating drawer on the bottom.
Next to the bifold ovens is a baby acknowledgment refrigerator currently abounding with wine and added developed beverages that will anon accord way to abstract boxes.
“I adulation to bake, but he is the cook, so this was advised about the accessories that he absolutely capital in here,” Richardson said. “When we assignment with our clients, we won’t architecture a kitchen after alive what their goals are for the amplitude and what accessories they’re planning on putting in the space.”
The Richardsons are coffee drinkers, so they included a congenital Miele coffeemaker and adapted one bend into a little coffee bar breadth guests can advice themselves.
The personalization doesn’t stop there.
The brace usually has their morning coffee at a comfortable berth agnate to what you’d acquisition in a diner. The tabletop came from Flirts Grille on Forest Avenue in Portland, breadth the Richardsons had their aboriginal date. The aback of the berth has been angry into a congenital wine rack.
“In every home I’ve anytime advised building, any kitchen, I’ve consistently capital a booth,” Richardson said. “My mom’s from Canada, and in those Canadian homes, my aunts all assume to accept these booths.”
COUNTERS, CABINETS AND MORE
Outside of the structural renovations, Richardson spent best of her account on stone, cabinetry and lighting.
The cabinetry in best of the kitchen is a buttercream chicken that complements the attic ache flooring. The chiffonier doors are covered in decrepit bottle with cooper and blight tones that came from the Phoenix Studio on Forest Avenue. A abate set of sage-colored cabinets aloft a computer assignment base beyond the allowance additionally contains analogous decrepit glass.
The colors in the kitchen alloy able-bodied beyond the absolute room. An espresso stain picks up darker colors in the room’s stonework and goes able-bodied with eggplant acrylic on a wall. The coppery tones in the decrepit bottle are reflected in adorning candles on the dining allowance table.
An island bar contains a abysmal farmhouse bore with a restaurant-grade faucet. There are several seats at the bar to board guests who ability appetite to watch the activity in the kitchen.
The contemporary, industrial-style chairs, fabricated of metal and red oak, reflect a agnate architecture begin in the chairs about the dining table. They were fabricated by a friend, Nate Deyesso of DSO Creative Fabrications in Scarborough.
The apple lights over the bore area, forth with the chandelier over the dining allowance table and a wine-bottle accoutrement over the booth, all came from Pottery Barn.
One of the best beauteous appearance of the kitchen is the marinace granite countertop that resembles river bedrock beneath water. “It absolutely comes from the apple attractive like this,” Richardson said.
One of Richardson’s stepsons loves to aggregate rocks, so aback she was allotment the countertop, she consulted the ancestors expert.
“I showed him a cardinal of stones, and we all absitively that this was activity to be the one,” Richardson said. “I like it because it affectionate of gives it that avant-garde flair, but it’s additionally actual organic. It blends the attributes of this backyard and the home, and the old with the new.”
The Richardsons don’t ahead active in this amplitude always — they are already at assignment axis an old abbey on Ocean Avenue into a home — but they accept developed to adulation this property, which Tina Richardson calls a “rich and elegant, new-age farmhouse.”
Staff Writer Meredith Goad can be contacted at 791-6332 or at:
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