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| Kitchen Craft |
| Birmingham architects Paul Bates and Jeremy Corkern transform a service-style kitchen into a finely furnished, functional space |
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BEFORE: Originally designed for a guesthouse, the old kitchen was strictly serviceable and lacking in light and style.
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AFTER: A leather banquette and four Barbara Barry chairs in beige-and-black chenille form the central seating area.
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Leaded-glass windows, marble counters, mahogany cabinets, concrete-paver floors, and a crossbeam ceiling are skillfully blended in the finished space.
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by Grace Collins Hodges
Photos by Lisa Adams
When Dick and Sallie Klingman bought their Charlotte house in 1993, the tiny,
service-style kitchen posed a few challenges: It was separated from the main
flow of the house, and space-hogging wall cabinets narrowed the kitchen and
limited the flow of natural light to what seeped through a single window over
the sink. "The kitchen felt like a small enclosed box," says architect Jeremy
Corkern of Birmingham-based Thomas Paul Bates Architects, who, along with Paul
Bates, helped the Klingmans transform their kitchen.
One of the architects' primary objectives was to open up the kitchen to the
adjoining dining room, art gallery, and other spaces. Because the house has
radiant heat and no basement, they were forced to work around existing pipes,
remove walls and doors, and annex small spaces, such as an old laundry room
and service area. Bates and Corkern decided to replace the row of hanging wall
cabinets with a bank of leaded restoration-glass windows to let in much-needed
light. They also added a graphic beamed ceiling using a geometric crossbeam
pattern. Now the expanded kitchen stands at the center of the house and is visible
from one end to the other. While Dick prefers contemporary styles, Sallie has a more traditional eye,
so the architects sought to create a blended environment, juxtaposing mahogany
tambour-front cabinets and concrete-paver flooring with period materials, such
as subway tiles and leaded-glass windows.
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