It’s in the Bag

Kitchen designed by KitchenLab, Chicago (www.kitchenlab-chicago.com); Architect Chad Boomgaarden, Wilmette (www.boomarch.com); and built by the Grimsley Group, Chicago (www.grimsleygroup.com)

BEFORE

This Highland Park home was originally built in a Victorian style, and although a Tudor facade was put on the home sometime around the 1930s, the interior remains Victorian. Designing for such a historic home proved a spatial challenge for the experts at KitchenLab, but after the location and size of the kitchen and mudroom were determined, the remaining design elements were chosen through the options offered by Design in a Bag, a start-up company that KitchenLab founder and HGTV contributor Rebekah Zaveloff created. Design in a Bag offers collections of professionally coordinated and proven kitchen and bath design “recipes” (cabinet, countertop, tile and paint samples with hand-drawn renderings)—providing the expertise, access and eye of an interior designer without the price tag. For this home, Design in a Bag’s Southport design was chosen, and the results are a new kitchen with a vintage feel—as if it was always meant to be in this historic home.

AFTER

Key Elements
• Custom cabinetry
• Carrera marble countertops
• White subway tile
• Wolf range and warming drawer, www.wolfappliance.com
• Northland refrigerator, www.northlandnka.com
• Bosch diswashers, www.bosch-home.com/us
• Rohl sinks, www.rohlhome.com
• Barclay faucets, www.barclayproducts.com