Interiors

Bright Meets Bold in a Melrose Kitchen

photography: Sabrina Cole Quinn

Large Melrose kitchen with white cabinets, walnut doors, and a corner banquette with bold floral wallpaper and striped seating.
Beautiful Melrose kitchen with creamy white cabinets, inset walnut doors, and white quartzite counters with grey veining.

This kitchen was part of a large renovation converting a Melrose 2-family into a single family home.

J. Bradley Architects designed the conversion, then we were brought in for finish selections and to further refine the kitchen layout, including the banquette. We partnered with Metropolitan Cabinets (designer Jana Neudel) in Wakefield to build out the vision.

The clients wanted a light, airy space, but hoped to avoid “all-white kitchen.” We chose a creamy white for all perimeter cabinetry, and balanced it with a bold custom blue for the large island and beverage bar. Rich walnut on inset glass doors and other accents was a bridge between the light and dark, and kept the contrasting colors from feeling to divided.

A playful wallpaper in rich tones reflects the clients’ large outdoor garden in summer, and provides cheery reminders of bright days in the depth of a Boston winter.

A view of a creamy white kitchen tower to the left of a large stainless range. Walnut inset doors create contrast, and a bold floral wallpaper is seen just to the left of the cabinetry.
Dark blue beverage bar cabinetry in a Melrose kitchen, with inset walnut doors and white quartzite counters.
Large Melrose, MA kitchen, showing creamy white perimeter cabinetry, dark blue island and bar cabinetry, and a large window over a sink.
A moody banquette corner of a Melrose MA kitchen. Floral wallpaper in jewel tones is layered with a bold stripe textile on the banquette cusion. A vintage bamboo table is set for tea, with garden flowers in a pitcher.

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