![]() ![]() It’s not anything I’m going to get sick of.” Such a dark hue could be risky in the cloudiest city in the US (says the World Atlas), but the kitchen possesses several attributes that make it work, including high ceilings and a large window that lets in a lot of (often gray) light. I chose it because I love navy, but also because it’s easy to live with. “It’s a very dark navy that some people think is dark gray. One of the first striking things about the space is the cabinetry, which is painted a dark blue shade, Railings by Farrow & Ball. Instead, it is a generous galley kitchen with plenty of counter space and cabinetry, much of the latter floor-to-ceiling. There was no room for an island, for example, because the kitchen couldn’t be made wide enough to incorporate one. The overall footprint of the original structure wasn’t altered, so there were certain limitations. “It’s definitely a working kitchen that we use a lot.” “We did spend a lot of time thinking about where things needed to be and the functionality,” she says. Simonds admits she is not a great cook, although she wishes she were rather, her husband is the chef in the family, and he had a fair amount of input into how the kitchen should operate. The major layout change was that the current eat-in dining area was swapped in for the separate original, and more formal, room. The kitchen itself, in this traditional circa 1911 Foursquare, had high ceilings - pretty much the only thing that was retained. Everything was basically rebuilt from the ground up. Like most construction projects, what started out as a fairly quick process eventually blossomed into something much larger, including building an addition to the house and gutting the kitchen and elsewhere. The location on a relatively busy corner made it even more visible to the neighbors, and took some getting used to after living in an apartment in New York City for 15 years. “Oh, you live in that house,” people would say to Colleen Simonds of her two-and-a-half-year-long project in Shadyside. Sometimes a renovation goes on for so long that your home takes on a sort of local notoriety. Story by: Stephen Treffinger, Photography by: Dave Bryce, Styling by: Keith Recker, Design by: Colleen Simonds, Appliances by: Don's Appliances
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