Shorewood Hills
The Whitfield kitchen
A bright painted-maple kitchen with white oak accents and a full-slab marble backsplash, in a 1939 colonial.
The Whitfields wanted light without losing the colonial’s formality. Painted maple perimeter cabinets from the shop, glass-front uppers on the hutch wall, and white oak open shelving keep it warm; a single slab of honed marble runs the backsplash without a grout line in sight.
The project also solved a fifty-year problem: the back door now lands in a real mudroom, built into what had been a broom closet and three feet of hallway.
Reviews
Rated 4.9 stars across 116+ reviews
★★★★★
“The island panels shifted over the winter, exactly like they warned us they might. They came back in February and fixed it without being asked twice. Who does that?”
★★★★★
“We interviewed four firms. Fourlakes was the only one that told us our budget would not cover our wish list, then showed us which two-thirds of it mattered.”
★★★★★
“Friday, 4pm, every week: photos and a plan. I never once called to ask what was happening in my own house.”
★★★★★
“Standing in their shop next to our half-built cabinets was the moment this stopped feeling like a leap of faith.”
★★★★★
“The addition matches so well that our neighbor of nine years asked if we had repainted. That is it. That is the review.”
★★★★★
“Their first estimate and the final invoice were the same number. In this industry that fact alone deserves five stars.”
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