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Quiet Coast Kitchen concept project — A galley kitchen relocated eleven feet, and completely changed by it.

Kitchen · Southside Village, Sarasota · 2025

Quiet Coast Kitchen

Project brief

A galley kitchen relocated eleven feet, and completely changed by it.

Concept work. This project is a fictional portfolio concept — the client, location detail, ranges, and results are invented to illustrate how the studio works.

Two serious cooks in a 1950s bungalow that had been extended twice. The kitchen sat in the darkest corner of the plan, backing onto the one wall with a garden view. The owners wanted a kitchen that could host without becoming a room people stand around in.

Location
Southside Village, Sarasota
Scope
Kitchen, scullery, and adjoining terrace door reconfiguration
Concept investment
Concept range: $265,000 – $310,000
Duration
8 months, design through completion

The design challenge

Moving the kitchen meant relocating the gas line, the main waste stack, and a structural post that had been buried in a partition. Ceiling height was also limited to 8 feet 4 inches, which ruled out a conventional hood chase over the island.

The solution

The kitchen moved to the garden wall and the old kitchen became a scullery with the dishwasher, second sink, and every appliance that makes noise. The buried post was replaced with a flitch beam so the room reads clear. A clerestory was cut above the run of cabinetry, lifting light across the plaster hood without touching the finished ceiling plane.

Material palette

What the house is made of

  • Honed limestone

    Island top, waterfall ends, and backsplash

  • Rift-sawn white oak

    Tall cabinetry, drawer fronts, and island base

  • Olive-gray lacquer

    Scullery joinery and the pantry door

  • Unlacquered brass

    Tapware and cabinet pulls, left to patina

  • Micro-cement plaster

    Range alcove and hood surround

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Annotated gallery

Quiet Coast Kitchen in detail

  • Coastal kitchen with white oak cabinetry, limestone island, and a plaster hood
    01The relocated kitchen sits against the garden wall, with the clerestory washing the hood.
  • Kitchen material samples including oak, limestone, brass, and plaster
    02Brass was specified unlacquered — it is meant to darken at the pulls people use most.
  • Detail of timber and stone junction in raking light
    03Oak-to-stone junction at the island return, drawn full-size before fabrication.
  • Adjoining living space with linen seating and oak floors
    04The adjoining living room, now visually continuous with the kitchen.

Plan diagram — Quiet Coast Kitchen

Schematic after plan diagram for Quiet Coast KitchenOPEN LIVINGNEW VOLUMETERRACE

Schematic diagram, not a construction drawing. Concept illustration only.

  • After
  • Kitchen relocated to the garden wall
  • Flitch beam replacing the buried post
  • Scullery absorbing noisy appliances
  • Clerestory above the cabinetry run

Results

What changed

  • Prep-to-cook-to-serve triangle reduced from 21 to 12 steps
  • Noise-generating appliances moved behind a door into the scullery
  • Clerestory adds daylight without raising the ceiling
  • Seating for five at the island, clear of the working zone