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Location: Seattle, Wash.Contractor: Geoff Osler, SeattleDesigner: Anne Adams, with Carrie Anderson, Stuart Silk Architects, Seattle

Merit Award, Kitchens, $50,000-$100,000

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Merit Award, Kitchens, $50,000-$100,000

  • Location: Seattle, Wash.Contractor: Geoff Osler, SeattleDesigner: Anne Adams, with Carrie Anderson, Stuart Silk Architects, Seattle

    Location: Seattle, Wash.Contractor: Geoff Osler, SeattleDesigner: Anne Adams, with Carrie Anderson, Stuart Silk Architects, Seattle

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    Location: Seattle, Wash.Contractor: Geoff Osler, SeattleDesigner: Anne Adams, with Carrie Anderson, Stuart Silk Architects, Seattle

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    Michael Jensen Photography

    Part of a whole-house renovation that included an additional floor and a seismic retrofit, this 200-square-foot kitchen gained improved circulation with a three-foot-wide addition.

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    Michael Jensen Photography

    Custom cabinets are painted in a warm metallic pewter and fully integrated with the modlings, lending a sense of sophistication and unifying the surfaces.

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    The previous kitchen "had this awkward pinch," says architect Anne Adams. "The peninsula backed up to the fridge, so the spot where everyone congregated was right there."

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    Kitchen, before.

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Challenge: To make an outdated kitchen functional for entertaining and family life. A 3-foot-wide addition eased the circulation path, increased the workspace, and allowed room for a bar-height island. Custom cabinets in a warm metallic pewter help to unify the surfaces. Judges appreciated: the room’s understated quality and linen limestone backsplash set in a stack-bond pattern.

Location: Seattle
Designer:  Stuart Silk Architects Ltd., Seattle, Wash.
Contractor:  Geoff Osler, Seattle

See list of all 2008 RDA winners.