Diana Wangun Atelier
U-shaped residential kitchen with dark upper cabinets, timber-look lower cabinets, stone-look surfaces, task lighting, and a timber ceiling; installation items remain on the counter.
Built kitchen · near-finished installation

Residential Renovation · Interior & Joinery

Kitchen Renovation & Custom Joinery

A compact residential renovation developed from hand sketches and site coordination through custom cabinetry, joinery, and built execution.

Type
Residential Renovation
Scope
Kitchen Renovation · Custom Kitchen Set · Door & Joinery Upgrade

This residential renovation reorganized the kitchen as an integrated working space, with custom cabinetry, coordinated finishes, lighting, and related joinery. Hand studies and existing-site conditions informed construction, kitchen-set installation, and changes to the door opening.

Existing & Construction

The existing kitchen was developed around a continuous U-shaped counter. Construction photographs show the counter bases, floor installation, and connection to the adjacent doorway.

Stone-look kitchen counter above unfinished masonry bases while floor tiles are being laid.
Counter and floor installation
View through the timber-and-glass doorway toward the kitchen counter and newly laid floor, before cabinetry installation.
Floor and doorway relationship · video still

Early Design Study

Early hand studies explore kitchen circulation, appliance placement, cabinetry, and vertical composition. The original working annotations and dimensions are preserved.

Kitchen layout study
Cabinet and ceiling composition

Installation

Upper and lower cabinetry give the working zone a continuous storage composition. Task lighting follows the counter, while the small horizontal opening remains visible within the backsplash.

Kitchen renovation in progress with open upper cabinets, installed lower cabinetry, task lighting, and workers fitting custom elements.
Custom cabinet installation

Built Kitchen

The near-finished kitchen brings the cabinetry, counter, backsplash, and lighting together beneath the timber ceiling. These photographs retain the household and installation items present at the time.

U-shaped residential kitchen with dark upper cabinets, timber-look lower cabinets, stone-look surfaces, task lighting, and a timber ceiling; installation items remain on the counter.
Built kitchen · near-finished installation
Detail of dark upper cabinetry, integrated task lighting, stone-look backsplash, and the small horizontal kitchen window.
Cabinetry and task lighting · detail crop

Material & Detail

Warm timber-look lower cabinetry contrasts with darker upper cabinets. Stone-look counter and backsplash surfaces, black hardware, integrated task lighting, and the timber ceiling establish the visible material relationships.

Door & Opening Upgrade

The renovation also included modification of the existing opening and a timber-and-glass door composition. The genuine plan and front elevation document the central access, side panels, and joinery dimensions alongside the construction and built photographs.

Existing wall opening being modified above timber frames under the retained timber ceiling.
Existing opening modification
Door plan and front elevation
Installed timber-and-glass double door with glazed sidelights and an upper opening within the existing stone-finished wall.
Built door and glazed sidelights

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