The kitchen had the right bones — a generous footprint, a south-facing window over the sink, a logical sightline to the dining room — and the wrong everything else. Wrong cabinetry, wrong layout, wrong lighting.
We reset it. Inset shaker cabinets in deep forest green, shop-built in Toronto. The island is a single book-matched Calacatta slab with a waterfall edge, fabricated locally and craned into place before the interior millwork went up. The backsplash behind the range is cut from the same slab so the veining reads continuous.
Brass is unlacquered on the fixtures, fittings, and hardware — it will tarnish into a warm patina over the next year and keep changing gently for decades. The owners wanted the kitchen to feel alive, not preserved.