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Paul Duchscherer

interior designer, historian, author

Segers Kitchen

Part of the home's new addition, the kitchen is also open to the family room (out of view to the right). Reflecting the restrained aesthetic of the Craftsman Style extending throughout the house, this room's finely crafted cabinetry and other millwork is of quarter-sawn oak. Period-style pendant lights are suspended from a series of box beams resting on curved corbels. Rows of handmade ceramic tile, arranged with ginkgo motif accent tiles, extend across the backsplash and on the wall behind the range. Matching accent tiles are set into the banding of the wood-clad range hood. The center island was designed to enchance the workability of the long and narrow space without overwhelming it. Differing heights, and contrasting surfaces of wood and stone, are used to define the island's work and dining areas. At either end, built-in shelving for cookbooks occurs in clipped-corner extensions of the cabinetry. Through the doorway at right, visible through the adjacent dining room, is part of the wisteria-motif art glass created by Theodore Ellison for the new front door.