11 Kitchens With Jewel Tones We’re Loving on the AD PRO Directory

One day, Summer Thornton, principal of her eponymous Chicago studio, drove past a fire station and remembers thinking, “What’s more attention-grabbing than red?” Believing that “the all-white kitchen was so popular and overdone for years,” she admits, she knew such a showy palette was the right fit for one of her projects, the union of two apartment units in a vintage high-rise building. “The kitchen was previously a galley with little natural light, but we relocated it and opened it up to the living room with steel and glass dividers,” Thornton notes. Pairing refined oxblood-toned insets with white oak cabinetry were exactly what she needed to “create a space that was handsome and arresting.”

White Arrow

Moreover, Buoyed by heaps of sunlight, the kitchen that New York studio White Arrow designed in an old Pound Ridge farmhouse just north of the city in Westchester is informed by the pastoral estates strewn across the British countryside. “Our goal was to make the room feel rooted in the age of the home,” says Keren Richter, White Arrow co-founder, and principal designer. “As there is a lot of natural light and wraparound windows with views onto the land, we took liberties to utilize a deep blue color from Fine Paints of Europe.” It envelops the beadboard backsplash, walls, and custom Shaker cabinetry, eliciting a dramatic backdrop to the white linen café curtains, white AGA oven, Arabescato marble, and collection of antique ironstone that poetically pop against it.