Eden's House: the kitchen seen straight on, framed by white oak on either side, with a white oak island and its seating extension in front of the range wall, and painted tall cabinets holding two wall ovens on the left.
Detail · Eden's House · Island, flat-cut white oak

Project · 2021 · Toronto

Eden's House

× Montana Burnett

A white oak kitchen built around a full-height caned pantry and an island with four rounded legs in solid oak. The painted tall wall runs flush with the fridge and takes both wall ovens in one seamless run.

Type
Custom millwork · kitchen, island, pantry
Materials
Solid and flat-cut white oak, radio-weave cane, painted millwork
Designer
Montana Burnett Design
Year
2021
Location
Toronto, ON

A tall caned door needs support to stay stable. Here it is hidden behind the cane.

A kitchen for Eden’s House in Toronto, in conjunction with Montana Burnett Design. We built the white oak island, the full-height caned pantry, and the painted tall wall that runs flush with the fridge and takes both wall ovens. It is a cook’s working kitchen, with extensive spice drawer organisation to match.

The pantry was the hard part. Caned doors at this height and scale are a stability problem, so each one carries supports hidden behind the caning. From the kitchen you see oak and cane, and nothing of what holds them.

Tall caned pantry doors in solid white oak frames at Eden's House, with oak doors above them and painted fridge panels with long leather-wrapped pulls to the right, behind a brass faucet at the island sink.
Detail · Eden's House · Caned pantry doors

Cane

The pantry runs full height, with tall caned doors in solid white oak frames. We made the doors and installed the radio-weave cane ourselves, in our shop. Doors at this height and scale are a stability problem once they are caned, so we built hidden supports behind the caning to steady each one. Beside the pantry, the fridge panels sit flush and take long leather-wrapped pulls by Louka Hardware.

The painted tall wall at Eden's House, running flush with the fridge panels on the left and holding two stacked wall ovens, with the range and hood to the right and the rounded end of the white oak island in the foreground.
Detail · Eden's House · Painted tall wall

Wall

The tall wall is painted millwork, and it runs flush with the fridge rather than stepping around it. Both wall ovens are set into the same wall. The fridge, the two ovens, and the tall doors around them read as one continuous run of seamless millwork, so the appliances sit inside the wall instead of interrupting it.

The seating extension of the white oak island at Eden's House, an oak apron running under the veined stone top and an oak leg standing beyond two rattan stools, with the range wall and open shelf behind.
Detail · Eden's House · Island seating extension

Island

The island has radiused ends and continues past its casework into a seating extension, with an oak apron running under the stone. Its four rounded legs are made from solid white oak, so the radius is shaped in the wood itself rather than wrapped in veneer. The casework surfaces around them are custom flat-cut white oak.

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Project · 2021 · Toronto

Four rounded legs in solid oak, cane installed in our shop, and supports nobody sees.

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