Cabinetry

LAMAS filled out an existing niche in the thick wall of the sunroom with a custom built-in for vinyl.

"The ADU has a more rustic vibe,

This tiny Ontario cabin features a standing-seam metal roof and pine cladding that pays homage to the property’s main cottage, originally built in the early 1900s.

The modern kitchen, with Viking appliances, offers a counterpoint to the more traditional style found throughout the rest of the home.

Melanson compares the new stair volume to a programmatic a Swiss Army knife that organizes circulation, houses a new powder room, and adds storage.

The great room in the new addition. “Every day walking into that big room, you just have that, ‘Oh, wow,’ moment,” says Marlatt.

Marlatt built the cabinets in place from Russian Birch plywood, and the counters are a thin application of Neolith stone. The backsplash is glass, making for easy clean-up, and a few of the cabinet fronts are painted Masonite, for fun pops of color. The ceramics on the shelves are by Burgevin.

Stuart got the idea to install cork countertops and flooring in the kitchen and bathrooms after visiting friends in the Hamptons.

“I pulled in other vintage pieces to give the space some soul,” Kelli says. A salvaged door was added to the bathroom and brass drawer pulls from ebay were added to the vanity.

Kelli embraced simple raw materials like marine-grade plywood and let them shine. “I made a design rule for myself for this project: no material should imitate another material. If it’s plywood, let it look like plywood. Let’s celebrate that.”

“I eschewed trim and embraced clean lines to open the space and make the windows feel like light installations instead of picture frames,