N a u t i c a l St. James, Southport N E W B U I LD
WHEN Tom
and Twink
Michel
decided
to build a second home
overlooking the Intracoastal
Waterway in the St. James
community of Southport,
they wanted the kitchen to
reflect their love of boating.
“We have been boaters and
lived on the water in Florida,
we wanted certain things to
look like you were inside a
yacht,” Tom Michel says.
Hollingsworth Cabinetry
worked alongside Crane
Building Company and Lizzy
Mac Interiors to elegantly
incorporate nautical elements
into the design. White cabi-nets
with accented teak doors,
teak wood countertops, a
deep navy hue for the island,
and polished brass knobs and
pulls were all purposefully
chosen.
“We used unlacquered
brass hardware that will
patina over time, to get an
aged salt air look that will
bring in that nautical feel,”
says kitchen designer Holly
Cole Brown of Hollingsworth
Cabinetry.
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A galley-style kitchen resem-bles
the inside of a yacht. A
teak wood ladder and pol-ished
brass railings serve as
both a design feature and a
vehicle for reaching high up
glass cabinets. Cabinetry is
by Hollingsworth, build is by
Crane and interiors are by
Lizzy Mac Interiors.
60 april 2022
WBM