Swoops Kitchen
This room was originally separated from the dining room by a wall. We removed that wall and moved another to make enough space to wrap the counter around under the East window and to open the kitchen up to the dining room towards the West, creating a corridor with large windows at either end and a skylight-well in the center of each room.
With the exception of the refrigerator, all of the appliances in this kitchen came secondhand from Craigslist. (Everything and the kitchen sink!)
The backsplash that expands into a custom mosaic over the cooktop consists of a pairing of one-of-a-kind saltillo-like tiles that were being discarded from a ceramic artist with everyday, machine-made brown quarry tile remnants.
The custom potrack was made with leftover walnut pieces from the window trim. Screwed into the studs above, it can support the weight of even the heaviest cast-iron pans.
Cabinet doors: local recycled ash, stained and sealed with Danish oil / Floor: concrete, hand-troweled / Counters: concrete, cast off-site to custom dimensions / Window trim: reclaimed urban walnut / Furniture and fixtures: salvaged, secondhand / Windows: new / Baseboards: recycled ash wood / Building materials: 50% salvaged
