Traditional Home Kitchens

The staff here at Traditional Home magazine have always had a special connection to kitchens. We have a long history of featuring beautiful and thoughtfully planned spaces that showcase how traditional design can vary by region and floor plan, as well as weave in different style influences. We’ve built decades-long friendships with leading kitchen designers and work with top manufacturers to highlight appliances, surfaces, cabinets, faucets, and lighting that help make cooking more efficient and entertaining more enjoyable. It’s only fitting that we created this special issue—a compendium of classic and new locations—to inspire ideas for your dream kitchen. Additionally, the Movers & Makers section is filled with our latest product discoveries to add to your wish list. Representing both new builds and smart renovations, the kitchens in this issue…

The Best and Brightest Every year, designers and manufacturers of all stripes assemble at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) to unveil creations that will improve our culinary lives. We’re unveiling a few favorites of our own, starting with this showstopping concept kitchen Richard T. Anuszkiewicz designed for Monogram. It’s filled with sumptuous textures, smart appliances, and blingy brass. The Style Mural wallpaper, a leather-wrapped refrigerator, and oxblood accents: Anuszkiewicz’s maximalist space has it all. The pièce de résistance is an alcove range surrounded by a stunning marble mantel by Artistic Tile. The Substance Framed by all that marble, Monogram’s 48-inch Dual-Fuel Professional Range is designed with precision controls and options for how you cook. There’s Wi-Fi connectivity, an air-fry mode, and reversible burners that flip to cradle accessories…

Stainless steel seems as ubiquitous in the kitchen as salt and pepper. But in designer Mick De Giulio’s hands, the metal is an intriguing chameleon that smartly plays multiple roles. “When you see a great movie for the second or third time, you notice details that you missed the first time,” De Giulio says. “The best designs are like that too.” In this Michigan kitchen, polished stainless steel grabs attention like a matinee idol. De Giulio and colleague Kathy Manzella made the metal—used in a chevron pattern—the star of the island. “The chevron detailing gives texture and a touch of elegance, like jewelry,” De Giulio says. “I like the play of textures. The oak floor gives this space a raw quality, but at the same time, there’s an elegance from…

The evolution of kitchens from spaces intended primarily for cooking to ones meant for enjoying time with family and friends has enabled design artistry to flourish. That idea plays out in Jennifer and Robbie Abt’s Montgomery, Alabama, kitchen. An abstract painting stretches across a handsome paneled range hood, imbuing the kitchen with unexpected beauty, detail, and interest. For architect Scott Steen and interior designer Heather Steen, a husband-wife design team, the cooking zone became an opportunity to dish up an artistic delight. “We wanted the range station to serve as the focal point of the kitchen—much like the fireplace serves as the focal point of the living room,” Heather says. “We chose a mantel-style hood and layered it with an original abstract painting and art light to carry out that…

Standing at the sink in a window-lined corner of her kitchen, the owner of this country home glimpses her favorite things: a pond and forest, shelves displaying her own ceramics, and a marble windowsill that holds garden cuttings. It’s a joyful moment afforded by the thoughtful approach of interior designer Tiffany Leigh. When approached to renovate the early-2000s home near Toronto, Leigh saw potential amid the kitchen’s basic finishes and awkward layout. She shifted the sink and wrapped a corner with windows to connect the space more deliberately to the outdoors. “In so many ways, I used the landscape to inspire the design of the kitchen,” Leigh says. A color palette plucked from nature sets the tone. “I wanted to pull from the earthiness of the location and the greens…

Look inside any refrigerator and you’ll find not-too-distant expiration dates. But the design of this Chicago-area kitchen? It’s guaranteed fresh for years. Designers Christina Samatas and Renee DiSanto made sure of that by creating a room built on a solid foundation that embraced classic elements rather than trends. “In any new build, part of the challenge and reward is in creating a space that has character,” Samatas says. “We want the home to feel lived-in, warm, unique. So we tried to incorporate unexpected elements that you might not necessarily find in other new builds.” The interior architecture provides a classic canvas with wood ceiling beams, thick crown moldings, and handsome paneled cabinetry. A slab marble backsplash and the silhouettes of mullioned glass-front cabinets, a bridge faucet, and cup-pull hardware augment…