Perry Parkway Luxury Interior & Exterior Renovation

The Kitchen: A Full Gut and Reconfiguration

The original kitchen had a large pantry area, a drop ceiling, and cabinetry that no longer matched how the homeowners wanted to use the space.

The team completely gutted the kitchen, removed the pantry walls, and did the structural work needed to open the layout into one connected space. EKD served as both kitchen designer and supplier for the project, handling the cabinetry and appliance selections from the ground up.

Cabinetry and Appliances

The kitchen uses a two-tone cabinetry approach. Stainless steel cabinetry anchors the appliance wall, including a paired refrigerator and freezer drawer configuration repeated on both sides for maximum cold storage. A built-in coffee maker and steam oven sit alongside additional storage drawers.

The island, back wall, and display cabinets use a custom painted finish instead, a gray tone with a slight lavender cast that the cabinet company mixed specifically for this project. No other kitchen has this exact color.

On the range wall, the drawer fronts and the countertop edge both curve to match the radius of the space. Task lighting is built into the range hood and the surrounding cabinetry, so the area can be brightly lit while cooking and dimmed down afterward.

The Amethyst Island

The eating area island uses an amethyst stone slab with a waterfall edge, built on a custom stainless steel base that echoes the stainless cabinetry elsewhere in the kitchen. The stone is backlit, which brings out the natural veining and color variation in a way that standard lighting wouldn't. At night, with the surrounding lights off, the island becomes the visual anchor of the room.

Backsplash, Lighting, and the Details You Don't Notice

A few of the kitchen's best decisions are the ones that are hardest to see.

The backsplash uses a stone that's backlit with a color-changing system, allowing the homeowners to shift the tone from white to purple or other colors depending on the mood. Rather than run outlets across that stone wall, the team placed them underneath the cabinets instead, so the wall reads clean while still meeting code.

EKD also positioned the kitchen sink off-center from the window above it. Most kitchens center the sink on the window, but the reasoning here was practical: an off-center sink gives a clearer view outside while standing at the sink, instead of looking directly into the window's center mullion.

Spice storage is built into soft-close doors on both sides of the range, so neither side slams and neither one is visible when closed.

Living Room and Fireplace

The living room kept its original fireplace but updated every finish around it, including a bookmatched marble surround. Above the mantel, the team installed museum-grade art lighting, a fixture designed specifically to illuminate artwork rather than the room in general. It's a subtle addition, but it makes a noticeable difference in how the art on that wall actually reads.

Piano Room and Whole-Home Audio

The piano room includes mother-of-pearl inlay on the door hardware and a matching oval inlay in the floor beneath the piano. Both the piano and a record player elsewhere in the home are wired into the whole-home speaker system, so music from either source plays throughout the house rather than staying contained to one room.

Dining Room and Additional Spaces

The dining room's glass chandelier and built-in display cabinetry round out the main-level renovation, alongside a powder bath and a custom laundry room completed as part of the same scope of work.

Outdoor Living: The Deck and Patio Addition

The original deck stopped roughly where the new patio addition begins. The team extended the deck, added a patio cover, and matched the original handrail detailing so the new construction ties into the existing structure rather than replacing it outright.

Fire and Water Feature

The custom stonework for the fire and water feature was built in-house, along with a radius glass panel behind the bench that mirrors the curve of the Panda door glass inside. Standing at the door, the sightline runs straight through to the water feature and the glass behind it, tying the interior and exterior design language together.

Outdoor Kitchen

The outdoor kitchen uses a leathered black onyx countertop, along with a Lynx grill, a refrigerator, additional storage, and an ice maker. A vent hood pulls smoke up and away from the cooking area, which matters more than people expect when you're sitting a few feet away during a cookout. The facade is finished in a textured natural stone, and the deck itself is porcelain paver rather than a composite or concrete surface.

Garden and Landscaping

The homeowner is an active gardener who spends much of the summer outside tending her flower beds. Irrigation for the planters was designed to pop up directly into the beds rather than run visible lines across the patio, keeping the hardscape clean while still fully watering the plantings. Both the front and back yards include water features as part of the overall landscape design.

How the Team Pulled It Together

A project with this many custom elements, curved glass, backlit stone, a cabinet color mixed for one client, only comes together with close coordination across the full design and construction team. Patti Lockwood of Lockwood Design Group led the interior design outside the kitchen, Paul Anderson and EKD designed and supplied the kitchen itself, Tammy Terhaar of SALTED handled the architecture, and Dustin Randle of Engineering Studio Denver worked through the structural requirements for opening up the main level. Cillessen Construction managed the build and the sequencing of long lead-time materials so the pieces arrived and installed in the right order.

A Renovation Built Around How the Family Lives Today

This project restructured how the main level functions, from a kitchen that now opens fully into the living space to a patio that extends the home's usable square footage outdoors for most of the year. If you're considering a similar main-level renovation or outdoor addition, we'd love to talk through what that could look like for your home. Contact us here.