Beverly Hills, Michigan | Kitchen Remodel — Built for Gathering
This Beverly Hills home had good bones and a family that knew exactly how they wanted to live in it — entertaining often, hosting large groups, and gathering the people they love around a table that actually had room for everyone. The kitchen they had didn't match that vision. It was small, closed off, and designed for a different era when kitchens were separate from the life happening in the rest of the home.
This project was part of a complete whole home renovation — every room touched, every space reimagined — and the kitchen was where the transformation started. It was the room that would set the tone for everything else.
The Project
Opening Up the Space
The most important decision in this kitchen wasn't a material or a finish. It was a wall.
The original kitchen was enclosed — separated from the adjacent sunroom by walls that kept the space functional but isolated. For a family that entertains, that's the wrong configuration entirely. Cooking while your guests are in another room, having no visual connection between the kitchen and the people you're hosting, feeling cut off from the party you're throwing — none of that works when gathering is the point.
We removed the walls entirely.
The sunroom became a dining room and living area that flows directly and openly into the kitchen. The result is a single connected space where the cook is never separated from the conversation — where guests can pull up a stool at the island and talk while dinner gets made, where the boundary between kitchen and living dissolves in exactly the way a home built for entertaining should.
It changed not just the kitchen but the entire character of the main floor.
The Design
The design brief was clear: classic, timeless, and built to last through years of parties, get-togethers, and the kind of joyful, chaotic use that a home filled with people actually gets. Nothing trendy. Nothing that would feel dated in five years. Just beautifully executed fundamentals that hold up to real life.
Two-Tone Cabinetry
White shaker uppers and a dark stained island base create a two-tone palette that is one of the most enduring combinations in kitchen design — the contrast is visually strong without being aggressive, and it anchors the room in a way that all-white or all-dark cabinetry simply doesn't. Tall brass hardware runs consistently throughout, connecting the upper and lower cabinets and tying the entire kitchen together with warmth.
Floor-to-ceiling upper cabinetry maximizes storage in a kitchen now doing more work than its predecessor — because a kitchen built for entertaining needs real storage, not just beautiful surfaces.
Large Quartz Island
The island is the heart of this kitchen and the reason the whole floor plan works. Generous in scale, finished in a dramatic white quartz with bold veining that reads almost like marble, it seats multiple guests comfortably on tall white upholstered stools and provides the counter space a family that cooks for groups actually needs. It's the place where guests naturally congregate, where drinks get poured and appetizers get passed and conversations start — designed specifically for that role rather than just large by default.
The waterfall edge detail at the end of the island adds an architectural quality that makes it feel like a piece of furniture as much as a kitchen feature — substantial and considered from every angle in the open floor plan.
Zellige Tile Backsplash
The backsplash behind the range is a soft grey-green zellige tile — handmade, with the natural variation in tone and texture that machine-made tile cannot replicate. It introduces the only color in the kitchen's palette, subtly and beautifully, and brings a warmth and handcrafted quality that keeps the space from feeling too clean or too formal. For a kitchen built around hospitality, that warmth matters.
Brass Pot Filler & Commercial Spring Faucet
A brass pot filler above the range and a commercial-style spring faucet at the sink are the two details that signal this kitchen was designed for people who actually cook. Both are functional first — the pot filler eliminates carrying heavy pots across the kitchen, the spring faucet handles volume — and beautiful second. Both are finished in brass that connects to the hardware throughout and adds warmth to a kitchen that could have easily gone cold.
Open Shelving & Wine Storage
Built-in open shelving flanking the refrigerator wall provides display space for the objects, books, and bottles that make a kitchen feel personal rather than staged. A custom wine storage built directly into the cabinetry keeps bottles accessible and visible — a detail that signals this kitchen was designed with entertaining in mind from the very beginning.
Part of a Whole Home Transformation
This kitchen was one chapter in a complete whole home renovation that touched every room — bathrooms, living spaces, flooring, bedrooms, and basement — all designed and built by Costello & Co as a single coordinated project.
Whole home renovations done right feel cohesive throughout. Every room connected by a consistent design language, a shared palette, and the kind of thoughtful detailing that only happens when one team manages the entire scope. The kitchen set the tone — and the rest of the home followed it.
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The Results
A kitchen that finally matches the family inside it. Open, generous, warm, and built for exactly the kind of living they had in mind — large dinners, crowded counters, full glasses, and the particular joy of a home that can hold everyone you love at once.
Classic. Timeless. Built to last.
Project Details
Location: Beverly Hills, Michigan
Project Type: Kitchen Remodel / Part of Whole Home Renovation
Scope: Full kitchen renovation including structural wall removal, layout reconfiguration, custom cabinetry, island addition, all new fixtures, flooring, and finishes
Before: Small enclosed kitchen separated from sunroom
After: Open plan kitchen flowing into dining and living area
Key Features: Two-tone white and dark cabinetry, large quartz waterfall island, white upholstered bar seating, zellige tile backsplash, brass pot filler, commercial spring faucet, floor-to-ceiling storage, open shelving, custom wine storage, hardwood flooring
Entertaining capacity: Designed for large group hosting
Photography: Shelby Dubin Photography
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