Kitchen Design Project

This Kitchen Design Project was my final project for Montgomery College's Interior Design Summer Program, capping three weeks of studying under a practicing interior designer. The brief: take a blank-canvas kitchen in a fictional newly purchased home and design a full remodel for it — floor plan, elevations, material selections, and budget — for a fictional client with real constraints.

Unlike most of my other work, this one couldn't just look right — it had to be buildable. Every drawing is to scale, and every dimension (counter heights, appliance clearances, walkway widths, outlet spacing) was checked against NKBA Kitchen Planning Guidelines and National Electrical Code requirements for kitchen countertop receptacles, the same references a working interior designer would use to make sure a plan is actually permittable, not just pretty.

The client brief was a modern-farmhouse kitchen for two four-star chefs in Rockville, MD, on a $100,000 budget and a four-week build window. I demolished a section of wall to bring in two floor-to-ceiling windows for natural light, worked appliance placement around real traffic patterns, and folded in a client-specific detail — a small garden and composting station — without breaking the clearances the rest of the kitchen needed.