Working with ARRC Inc., Robin set about adding a new addition to her home. It’s primarily a kitchen and pantry, but includes a mud room where she can easily tend to her two beautiful Great Pyrenees.  The tile floor room includes a half-walled shower stall to keep her long-haired beauties clean as they roam about the house.

But, the real star of the addition is the dramatic navy blue-walled kitchen and pantry area.  It is a space built for a family who enjoys old world charm with a modern twist.  Along one wall a 19th Century French corner cupboard provides a pretty unique visual accent.  We were able to fabricate a small reveal along one shelf to hide interior lighting that makes the cupboard light up like a year-round Christmas ornament.  

Robin built the entire space for convenience, eliminating any upper level cabinets.  Instead she filled the lower walls with custom-designed cabinets filled with drawers.  Each drawer was built specifically to store her kitchen tools, garbage cans, utensils, spices, towels, and more.  Some of the large windows were carefully restored  by Whitney Glass in Cleveland’s Little Italy.  They bring in light from every angle to dance across the lightly stained oak wood floors that was manufactured in our shop. This hardwood floor harmonizes with the older section of the home where Robin designed inlaid walnut floor planks that transition to an elegant bar area with a heavy silver cremone locking mechanism.  Is it old or new?  Only Robin and the craftsmen at Swiss Woodcraft know for sure.

At Swiss Woodcraft we built all the flooring, cabinets, moldings and doors as well as the corner cabinet lighting in the Rothenbuecher’s new addition.