Work (Apartments)
An interior precedent for residential kitchen design by Sarah Jacoby Architect, demonstrating the pairing of warm wood millwork with high-gloss red ceramic tile and clean white counters.
- What we like about this project
- The uninterrupted continuous band of open shelving sitting directly against the high-gloss red tile backsplash.
Materials
- wood
- ceramic-tile
- quartz
- stainless-steel
- glass
Visual identifiers
- red-tile-backsplash
- wood-cabinetry
- open-shelf
- white-counters
Style tags
- contemporary
- warm-minimal
- residential
Visual tags
- kitchen
- residential
- warm-interior
- custom-millwork
- bold-color
- Geometry
- L-shaped kitchen layout featuring full-height floor cabinets on the left, an upper run of wood veneer cabinetry matching the lower wall units, and an inset open shelf backed by glossy red ceramic tiles.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled domestic kitchen workspace.
- Lighting
- Even diffused artificial overhead ceiling lighting paired with natural daylight coming from a side window beside the range.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, clean, and vibrant due to the bold red backsplash paired with natural wood grains.
- Environmental context
- Residential interior apartment kitchen.
- Spatial experience
- A compact yet brightly lit cooking zone where the contrast between natural wood and saturated red tile creates an intimate and lively domestic focal point.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grain oak panels alternate with horizontal shelf lines and a gridded tile backsplash layout.
- Style reading
- Contemporary warm residential kitchen
- Program
- Apartment kitchen
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- wood, ceramic-tile, quartz, stainless-steel, glass
- Visual identifiers
- red-tile-backsplash, wood-cabinetry, open-shelf, white-counters
- Style tags
- contemporary, warm-minimal, residential
- Visual tags
- kitchen, residential, warm-interior, custom-millwork, bold-color
- Geometry
- L-shaped kitchen layout featuring full-height floor cabinets on the left, an upper run of wood veneer cabinetry matching the lower wall units, and an inset open shelf backed by glossy red ceramic tiles.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled domestic kitchen workspace.
- Lighting
- Even diffused artificial overhead ceiling lighting paired with natural daylight coming from a side window beside the range.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, clean, and vibrant due to the bold red backsplash paired with natural wood grains.
- Environmental context
- Residential interior apartment kitchen.
- Spatial experience
- A compact yet brightly lit cooking zone where the contrast between natural wood and saturated red tile creates an intimate and lively domestic focal point.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical grain oak panels alternate with horizontal shelf lines and a gridded tile backsplash layout.
- Style reading
- Contemporary warm residential kitchen
- Program
- Apartment kitchen
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior