This Designer's Sprawling Los Angeles Kitchen Features a Moroccan-Tiled Ceiling and a Handcrafted Burgundy Stove
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When interior designer Lindsay Chambers first moved into her Pacific Palisades home, the 250-square-foot kitchen was in a gutted, unfinished sheetrock state. “It was a dark rectangle with low ceilings,” she recalls. “There wasn’t a lot of natural light in the space, so the challenge was to make the space feel bright, even though it started out feeling dark and enclosed.” So she set out to reconfigure the entire room, aiming to elevate the design “so that it felt architecturally interesting as well as light and welcoming,” she explains.
Echoing the style of French transitional farmhouses, Chambers sourced the range—along with the oak beams and limestone flooring—from France. “The apothecary-inspired island and backsplash and ceiling tile also reference European design elements,” she notes.
Wanting to blend indoors and out, she razed the wall in between, allowing you to walk out onto the back patio directly from the kitchen. “I also opened up the back wall with floor-to-ceiling Andersen wood glass sliders and continued the French limestone flooring [from Exquisite Surfaces] in the kitchen to the outside patio to further connect the two spaces,” she says.
The designer incorporated plenty of natural elements, such as stone and metal, into the mix to make the kitchen feel more organic and earthy. Walnut and leather stools from Thomas Hayes flank the custom island (made with walnut wood and topped with Calacatta marble), while natural rust pendants with plaster white shades from Circa Lighting dangle above.
White custom cabinetry is complemented by a blue granite and Calacatta marble countertop, alongside a bronze-and-quartz open shelving unit from Spivak Designs that holds Crate & Barrel glassware and a charcuterie board from Etuhome.
Among the room’s most notable features are the handmade White Fez Moroccan tiling on the ceiling and handcrafted burgundy stove with brass accents from Lacanche. “I selected the stove to give the kitchen a fun pop of color,” the designer reveals. “It’s also been a good conversation piece."
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