A Snaidero Kitchen Transformation

I was excited to see my first freelance piece for The Washington Post published today — it features Studio Snaidero DC‘s dramatic transformation of a condo  kitchen in Georgetown’s Washington Harbor from ’80s-era dark and gloomy into 21st-century shining and sophisticated.

You can read my full story on The Post’s Web site, which involves two different owners with a mutual love for this kitchen, but here I wanted to share more before and after pictures than the two that were published.

The kitchen went from this:

To THIS:

Here’s another perspective — don’t miss the little coffee cups on the dowdy wallpaper.

The new space from the same angle includes sleek new barstools from Poltrona Frau in Georgetown, and overhead, Artemide’s Logico Nano pendants from Illuminations.

These before pictures include a view of the ancient cooktop, which had a non-working burner when the renovation began; the outdated trash compactor, which didn’t work anyway; and the fridge that had also died when the new work started.

And after: Here’s a picture I took a couple weeks ago, highlighting a suite of high-end Miele appliances, with two wine chillers by U-Line in the background. The gorgeous glass-tile backspash, along with the porcelain on the floor, came from Architectural Ceramics.

I’ll leave you with the final quote from my story, by the kitchen’s current owner, Phyllis Fleischaker: “Every morning when I walk in here, I think, ‘Wow, this is mine!’ ”

Thank you, Snaidero showroom manager Robert Templon, for sending the project my way.