New faces

According to reliable furniture shop in Phnom Penh construction materials information, a collaborated work between architect Jeffery Sweitzer, David Erotas, and designer Laura Ramsey Engler, the featured kitchen achieves a typical open-plan setting which provides more casual look and ample space that suit owner’s lifestyle.

New sliding pocket doors with translucent mica panels are specified to allow more natural light in the room and screen-off the kitchen from the main living and dining area when needed. "In the daytime, the sunlight illuminates the mica panels, and by night the reverse is true – the doors glow with the light from the kitchen," Sweitzer said.

"The owner wanted a kitchen with detailing, but it was also important to keep the interior very sleek," Ramsey Engler stated. "We specified figured sycamore for the front of the island and overhead cabinets. This provides the detail, but in a subtle way. 

"We wanted the lower cabinets to tell a different story, so these have a pearlized finish in a color that is similar to the bleached sycamore. It's a fairly low contrast, but it adds a layer of complexity."