The Kitchen, Before & After

Same windows, same peak. The beams read as a cave at four in the afternoon; now it is all one great room on the top floor. Drag the line.

Dark cabinets and a sink you could not share became the cooking wall — six burners, slab backsplash, no grout lines to scrub.

The refrigerator used to live in the middle of a U. Now it is a square with an island — four walls, four jobs, and nobody trapped behind the fridge door.