A 100-Year-Old Long Island Home Got a Bright Kitchen Glow-Up

Genevieve and Amin imagined the kitchen as a gathering place for themselves and their two boys—aged five and seven—but without an island or a physical heart, this was a challenge. Fortunately, it was nothing Adam couldn’t tackle. The solution, he found, lay in carving out multiple focal points in the way of nooks and niches, opening shelving, wall-mounted fixtures, soft lighting, pops of color, and warm wooden undertones.

“We regularly have baking extravaganzas and the boys enjoy doing homework at the table in the nook while we make dinner,” Genevieve says. “We love the history of our house, but [we] also love that we were able to make it ours through the kitchen.”

Location: Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York

The before: The previous kitchen was a patchwork of decisions taken over the decades. It had counters made of particle board, vinyl tile floors, and leaky windows. Plus the finishes, fixtures, appliances, and cabinetry were desperately outdated.