The Kitchen Place

We moved to a late 50s home in Cobourg in the fall of 2021
I was exhausted from 2 years of ongoing renovations to our former house in Toronto, plus a two-stage move from there into a storage facility before we finally settled into our new home.

It is a solid, beautifully proportioned home but it had dated materials, like worn, orange-shellacked hardwood floors, and dark wood kitchen cabinets, mounted way too high over a melamine countertop. Worse though, was the dysfunctional layout, with an oven jammed right into the corner and above the stairs, risking a backwards somersault down the stairs if you ever lost your balance pulling a roast out of that oven.

It was a total gut job. We needed a total transformation. And no way was I going to deal with it all, not after endless projects in the old place. We wanted a full-service company to manage it all: design, materials sourcing, gutting it, and construction of a completely new, high-end kitchen. So we called the Kitchen Place in Oshawa.

Barb and her team completely transformed our dated old 50s kitchen into an elegant, sleek, contemporary chefs kitchen that we are absolutely thrilled to use and savour every day.

The whole process was an ongoing pleasure both to participate in and to watch unfold, as all the pieces came together over the reno.
It was hugely satisfying when we sat in Kitchen Place's extensive showroom, choosing from collection after collection of materials, finishes, and design options. Lotsa fun, lots and lots of choices. Barb is a supremely talented designer with an easygoing manner and she guided us through the whole design stage to orchestrate a concept around our tastes and lifestyle that felt just right, no compromises.

Her team of professionals brought the CAD renderings she created to life, stage by stage. She works with some meticulous, hardworking talent, from tear-out specialists (cabinets were removed, not sledgehammered, and then donated to charity) to plumbers and electricians, (who installed sink and services precisely as specd, and who built up multiple layers of subtle lighting within the space) to a masterful assembly craftsman who orchestrated an astonishing array of components with precision.

At the end of it all, we got a true dream kitchen, worthy of my wifes very considerable chef talents, and a look and feel that we both savour and enjoy every time we are in there.

If ever there was a time to go with a full-service company to stick-handle a complex kitchen project through the madness that is Covid, its now. Especially in the crazy Covid times we live in, this company knows how to get it done right. Top drawer, highly recommended.