Weston-Pellam Park, Toronto

A stained kitchen, not a painted one. The grain is meant to be visible, so nothing in the finish is there to hide it.

• New kitchen built to a floor plan, stained
• Gloss 20 sheen
• A top filler made to close the gap under a sloping ceiling

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   The sample door, stood against the kitchen it was going to replace. Not held up in a showroom and not chosen from a screen — put next to the oak, in this room, in this light. The door in the finished photographs is this door.

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   Boxes in, drawers out, the old tile off the wall. A new kitchen is the one job here where the room really does get emptied — there are no original boxes to keep when the whole run is being replaced.

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   The ceiling in this room is not level. Cabinets are, so a run fitted square to the floor opens a wedge of daylight against a ceiling that slopes away from it. The estimate answers that in six words — a top filler — and the gap is closed with a made piece, not with caulk.