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70 Distinctive kitchen solutions

 The ormer owners o a house in Wheaton, Illinois,

had enlarged their home with a big amily room

adjacent to their small, closet-sized, galley-shaped

kitchen. Ater years o making do with the space,

the current owners asked designer Tina Lynne Muller o Drury Design to overhaul the layout so it would unction

better or their own needs as well as or the cooking they

regularly do or amily, sometimes as many as 30. Since

the amily room was so large, Muller, who won an industry

award at the recent National Kitchen & Bath Association

show in Chicago, decided to borrow space rom it and turn

the kitchen into an L-shaped, bigger-yet-open room. In the

main portion, near the amily room, she constructed a big

island with seating on two sides, a wine cooler and a pullout

or dog ood; close by on the perimeter wall she placed

the range top with a hood and one o the kitchen’s ovens.

Because the home was constructed on a slab, which made

changing the plumbing expensive, Muller let the sink in

its same corner location in the long original section o the

kitchen. That same area also was equipped on the opposite

wall with the other ovens, a long countertop or working, a

rerigerator-reezer and, in its own corner, a message center.

Because the owners wanted a cleaner, crisper lookbut one that still worked with the mid-20th-century ranch,

Muller looked rst or granite that would t the stained

wood cabinets the owners desired. The granite selected,

known as Yellow River, contains yellow, brown and blue

or a warm, inviting appearance. Cabinets were construct-

ed rom alder. Also to t the mid-20th-century look, Muller

 picked a classic fat-panel door with a ramed border. She

 paired that door style and wood with a long stainless steel

handle or a bit o a contemporary touch—but not too

much. But the main ocal point o the room is the back-

 WISH L IS T

• Multiple ovens for lots of entertaining• More room for cooking and eating• Big island with wine cooler and pullout for dog

food plus space for visitors to sit

Distinctive kitchen solutions 7

for familygatherings

remade

borrowing space from an

adjacenT room, a kiTchen gains

an island and Three ovens

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   G   R   A   P   H   Y  :   e   R   i   c

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in California wine country; Yellow

hanging pendants that match

yellow in granite countertops

PRODUCTS USED:

• Countertop:Granite, Yellow River

• Microwave, oven, refrigerator/

freezer: Jenn-Aire

• Oven under cooktop: GE

LOCATION: Wheaton, IL

DIMENSIONS:19½' x 15'

>>> SPECIAL FEATURES: 

Centralized cooking area but plenty

of counter space throughout; Art

wall between refrigerator and ov-

ens to show off painting purchased

DESIGNER:

Tina Lynne Muller

Drury Design

512 N. Main St.

Glen Ellyn, IL 60137

630-469-4980

drurydesigns.com

tina@drurydesigns.com

ABOVE: Yellow Rivergranite was pickedrst and then pairedwith alder in this1950s-era ranch.

floor plan

• Cooktop:Viking

• Hood: Zephyr

• Sink: Rohl

• Faucet: Price Pster

• Cabinetry:Grabill, alder

• Hardware:Top Knobs

• Wall tiles: Sonoma

• Floor:Hardwood, oak

• Pendants:Task Lighting

splash, which has a eld o natural-colored

stone with fecks o blue and a “picture”

beneath the hood with glass and stone mosa-

ics in a deeper blue. Yellow pendants dangle

near a support beam, and a blue-gray painted

wall near the ovens and rerigerator shows

o artwork brought home rom a trip to

Caliornia’s wine country.