Peter Landers Photography www.peterlanders.net

Laurel Way Beverly Hills modern home all white kitchen. Photo by Art Gray Photography.

Nathan Kirkman | www.nathankirkman.com

Louise Lakier Photography © 2012 Houzz

Project for austec Shamir building. www.austec-shamir.co.il , architects :studio arcasa

Kitchen cabinet paint color is Valspar paint Montpelier Ashlar Gray. Pendant lights from Pottery Barn. For more info, call us at 844.770.ROBY or visit us online at www.AndrewRoby.com.

Photographed by Donald Grant

Photographer Adam Cohen

Professionally Staged by Ambience at Home http://ambiance-athome.com/ Professionally Photographed by SpaceCrafting http://spacecrafting.com

Susan Fisher Photography

TreHus recaptured the historical character of this kitchen with beautiful, traditional materials like custom oak and dark-stained cherry cabinetry, granite countertops, white subway tile, and a farmhouse sink. Photo by John Reed Foresman.

Beautiful expansive kitchen remodel with custom cast stone range hood, porcelain floors, peninsula island, gothic style pendant lights, bar area, and cozy seating room at the far end. Neals Design Remodel Robin Victor Goetz

Werner Hutmacher

Mikiko Kikuyama

Our brief was to create a calm, modern country kitchen that avoided cliches - and to intrinsically link to the garden. A weekend escape for a busy family who come down to escape the city, to enjoy their art collection, garden and cook together. The design springs from my neuroscience research and is based on appealing to our hard wired needs, our fundamental instincts - sociability, easy movement, art, comfort, hearth, smells, readiness for visitors, view of outdoors and a place to eat. The key design innovation was the use of soft geometry, not so much in the planning but in the three dimensionality of the furniture which grows out of the floor in an organic way. The soft geometry is in the profile of the pieces, not in their footprint. The users can stroke the furniture, lie against it and feel its softness, all of which helps the visitors to kitchen linger and chat. The fireplace is located in the middle between the cooking zone and the garden. There is plenty of room to draw up a chair and just sit around. The fold-out doors let the landscape into the space in a generous way, especially on summer days when the weather makes the indoors and outdoors come together. The sight lines from the main cooking and preparation island offer views of the garden throughout the seasons, as well as people coming into the room and those seating at the table - so it becomes a command position or what we call the sweet spot. This often results in there being a family competition to do the cooking. The woods are Canadian Maple, Australian rosewood and Eucalyptus. All appliances are Gaggenau and Fisher and Paykel.