Coastal Farmhouse Kitchen
This new house with old house sensibilities defines open and
inviting with bespoke cabinet designs and a palette of natural
woods and painted finishes.
Huntington,
Long Islanders,
Steven and
Beverly Weitzner
took the plunge and moved
their farmhouse aesthetic
into North Carolina. Their
coastal farmhouse cottage
style unifies the North and
the South with historic clues
— like oyster shell tabby,
board-and-batten siding, shi-plap
paneling — all of which
are some of the finish materi-als
used outside and in.
Beverly Weitzner wanted
her new home to feel familiar
to her — and mindful of
the place she reared her kids.
Nowhere is this feeling more
evident than in the kitchen
designed to appear as if the
home had been added onto
over time with an eclectic
blending of simple, white
18th century Shaker style cab-inets
with painted bungalow
style built-ins that resemble
the ubiquitous kitchen hutch
popular in the 1920s.
The most fun, the
Weitzners say, was creating a
refrigerator made to resemble
an old timey icebox. Paired
with, and nestled into the
array adjacent to the icebox,
is a replica of a 20th century
Hoosier style cabinet that
would have stored gadgets,
like the flour sifter, with
built-in niches for spices and
all of the other hand-held
appliances a baker might use
that now houses a cookbook
collection.
JOSHUA CURRY
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WBM april 2019