No Upper Kitchen Cabinets

Nothing to do with upper cabinets, thinking about microwave lol

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This kitchen in Providence, Rhode Island, has access to outdoor space through a single door.Some crave more access to the outdoors. About 18 percent of renovating homeowners said they were opening their kitchens more to outdoor spaces. The most popular way to do so was with double doors or a row of doors. A single door was the second-most popular choice.

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Range wall. And here you can see why they’d want to keep the view to the range wall clear. “The homeowner was very hands-on and chose a lot of the materials herself,” Griffith says. The designer gave her a few layout options, including one with cabinets flanking the vent hood and one with open shelving. “The cabinets would have made it look crowded,” Griffith says. Instead, open shelving allows for a larger expanse of the 4-by-12-inch Carrara marble tiles and transformed the wall into a stunning focal point that grabs your attention as soon as you walk in the room. “It was important to have that texture of the marble here; otherwise it would have looked blank and flat,” Griffith says. Grout. Notice that Griffith used a medium-gray grout, which picks up on the colors of the veining in the marble and will be much easier to keep looking clean.Countertops. The counters are a light-colored quartz.

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