Finders Keepers

“People walk in and ask when I did this kitchen,” Dan says. “When I tell them 30 years ago, they’re astonished.” The kitchen’s pine floors, white cabinets, and garden-facing glass wall of French doors topped with windows are nothing if not classic. But they are not how Dan explains the room’s timelessness. “It’s parts and pieces, not wall-to-wall cabinets everywhere. That’s why it’s successful,” he opines. Designing kitchens to look like regularly furnished rooms became a design trend a little more than a decade ago; now it’s part of the standard vocabulary of kitchen design.