Work · Sherman Oaks · Kitchen
The Valley Vista Kitchen
A load-bearing wall removed to open a closed galley into a single twenty-eight-foot living plane.
The Brief
The owners cooked for a family of five in a galley designed for one. Two doorways, a pony wall and a soffit split the rear of the house into three small rooms that never saw the garden. The brief was simple to say and structural to solve: one room, one light source, one place everybody ends up.
The Design
We modelled three plans before committing. The chosen scheme pulls the sink to the window wall, moves cooking to a single run against the party wall, and leaves the island free of appliances so it works as prep, homework desk and buffet. Cabinet faces are flat, full-height and without hardware, so the eye reads the room rather than the joinery.
The Build
Removing the bearing wall meant a flush steel beam, new pad footings and an engineered load path down to the slab — all drawn, stamped and permitted before demolition started. Services were re-run in the same sequence as the framing, which kept the ceiling plane continuous rather than dropped.
The Finish
The backsplash is a single UV direct-to-surface printed panel from our own press: a topographic line drawing pulled from the neighbourhood's contour map, printed at 1:1 and installed by the same crew that framed the room.
Project specs
- Scope
- Kitchen remodel, structural opening, service relocation, printed backsplash
- Location
- Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles
- Timeline
- [Timeline — add actual duration]
- Signature finish
- UV-printed seamless backsplash panel
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