3,327 Square Feet Held Together by a Single Palette
A full renovation of a 3,327-square-foot Kirkland home — kitchen, living room, and bathrooms — unified by a single palette of white, warm wood, and natural stone.
Full-home renovations have one central risk: coherence. When a project spans multiple rooms across multiple functions — kitchen, living room, primary bath, secondary baths — the danger is that each space becomes its own separate project, connected only by the fact that they share a floor plan. The palette for this Kirkland home was established first, precisely to prevent that. White, gray, and ivory as the base. Warm natural wood for the cabinets. Granite for the counters. Every room had to earn its place within that framework before any individual decisions were made.
The result is a home that reads as a single thing when you walk through it — not three renovated spaces that happen to be adjacent. That continuity is harder to achieve than it looks, and it was the primary design challenge from the first conversation.
The Kitchen as the Anchor
The kitchen was the most complex room in the project — the one that would set the tone for everything else. We chose an L-shaped layout that opens toward the main living area, keeping sight lines clear and reinforcing the connection between the two spaces. White cabinetry with warm natural wood drawer fronts and modern black hardware creates contrast without tension. The pendant chandelier above the island anchors the vertical plane and introduces a moment of detail that elevates the room without competing with the material palette.
Granite countertops were selected for their durability and for the natural variation in their surface — no two slabs are identical, which gives the kitchen a quality that manufactured surfaces can’t replicate. The dark veining in the stone reads against the white cabinetry in a way that feels deliberate rather than accidental.
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The living room fireplace wall in natural stone — the thermal and visual anchor of the main floor.
One Home, Three Distinct Rooms
The challenge in a multi-room renovation isn’t any single room — it’s the transitions. A kitchen that is well-designed in isolation can still undermine a home if it doesn’t relate to the living room it opens onto. Bathrooms that feel disconnected from the material language of the rest of the house read as afterthoughts, regardless of their individual quality.
For this Kirkland home, that meant making palette decisions before space-by-space decisions. The white and warm wood language that runs through the kitchen had to appear — in a different register — in the bathrooms. The stone that anchors the living room fireplace wall had to relate to the granite in the kitchen. Every individual choice was evaluated against the whole.
“The palette is decided before the first room. Everything else is execution.”
How We Approached It
The bathrooms were designed as a family rather than individually. Each has its own functional requirements and its own proportions, but the material decisions — white surfaces, clean fixtures, warm accent tones — were made as a group. This approach creates the sense of a home where the designer’s hand is felt throughout, not just in the rooms that were “featured.”
In the primary bathroom, a wall-mounted mirror and modern sconce lighting create a composition that is spare without feeling sparse. The vanity countertop continues the granite language from the kitchen, connecting the two anchor rooms of the home across the distance of the floor plan.
The living room fireplace wall was the single most impactful move in the project. Natural stone at full height changes the thermal quality of the room — it adds weight, permanence, and a material contrast to the lighter kitchen palette that prevents the open-plan main floor from reading as a single undifferentiated space.
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