Open-concept kitchen and living room with white walls, hardwood floors, and large windows letting in natural light. The kitchen features white cabinetry, a large island, and pendant lighting. The living area has a sofa, armchair, and decorative lamps.

Transitional Family Home Design

Portland

2025

What do you do when you have a dark kitchen with low ceilings and not enough storage for a family of four? You knock it out of the park by vaulting the ceiling, extending the house into the backyard by just a few feet, adding windows, and making the largest (perfect for the scale of the home) island in the center! This transformation is one for the books, and the island is a huge topic of conversation around this town.

  • Bright white kitchen with large island, wooden flooring, yellow tulips, and appliances
  • Modern kitchen with white cabinets, gold handles, a stove, and decorative items like a framed landscape painting, a lemon, and kitchen utensils.
  • Bright kitchen with white cabinets, gold handles, large windows, and a view of greenery outside.
  • White kitchen island with open shelves displaying wooden bowls, white bowls, and books, in a bright modern kitchen with light wood floors and white cabinetry.
  • Living room with white walls, a built-in shelf holding a framed still life painting of fruit and a white flower pot, and open kitchen and seating area in the background.
  • Bright living room with white walls and vaulted ceiling, a blue armchair, wicker chairs, a large green plant, and built-in cabinets.
  • Living room with large window, brown sofa with patterned pillows, blue armchair, glass coffee table with books, decorative vases on a side table, and outdoor view of trees
  • Living room with navy armchair, brown velvet sofa with patterned pillows, gold side table, blue bar cabinet with bottles, white walls, and a sign on the wall that reads 'BOARS HEAD'.
  • A kitchen with blue cabinetry, gold handles, and a bar area with liquor bottles, glass shelves, and decorative vases. There is a dining chair with a floral cushion, a woven side table with a plate, and a window with natural light.
  • Close-up of a dark green kitchen cabinet with gold handles, a cream-colored stone countertop, and a decorative porcelain vase in the background.
  • Sunlit window seat with decorative pillows, a fireplace window seat, a patterned armchair, a beige sofa, and a vase of yellow tulips.
  • Bright dining area with white walls, wooden table and rattan chairs, large glass door letting in sunlight, green potted plant, artwork on the wall, and a light fixture.
  • Bright dining room with white paneled walls and sloped ceiling. A wooden dining table with eight cane-backed chairs and decorative pillows sits on a patterned rug. A large window and glass door let in natural light. A framed landscape painting hangs above a white bench, and greenery is visible outside.