The brief
Every Blue Sky Studio project begins with listening.
“We love to cook and entertain — but our kitchen is cramped and drab, and nothing about it feels like the house around it.”
About the project
A cramped, drab kitchen at the center of a beloved 1920s Tudor, returned to the hospitable, hand-crafted home its owners always saw in it.
Beloved 1920s Tudors reward patience. The Los Feliz owners had lived with theirs for years, and knew every detail of its art-glass, plaster, and millwork — except the kitchen, which had been flattened by a decorator-era renovation they had inherited and never loved.
The redesign reassembled the kitchen wing as a coherent suite of rooms: a proper working kitchen with a generous island, a scullery-style pantry, a period library adjacent, and quiet supporting spaces — a laundry with a butler’s bar, a powder room, an art niche at the hall — each drawn in the language of the original house.
Custom cabinetry was designed room by room, with inset doors, exposed butt hinges, and polished nickel hardware to match the original detailing. Every new piece of millwork is meant to read as though it was always there.
Project features
- Chef’s kitchen with integrated pantry
- Period-matched cabinetry and hardware
- Library, powder room and art niche
- Laundry room with butler’s beverage bar
Gallery
Inside the Los Feliz residence.
