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Kitchen Cabinets in New Canaan, CT

New Canaan is a town of roughly 20,500 built around a compact village with large-lot residential land in every direction. It is best known architecturally for the group of modernists who settled here after the war and put up a set of glass and steel houses that are now internationally studied.

Kitchen cabinets New Canaan CT owners are specifying fall into two very different traditions. There are the Colonial Revival and shingle-style houses of the 1900s to 1930s, where the brief is usually a period-appropriate kitchen with modern function hidden inside it. And there are the mid-century modern houses, where the entire point is that nothing is hidden.

That second tradition matters more than the house count suggests. The architects who worked here from the late 1940s built with flat roofs, full-height glazing, exposed structure and open plans, and the kitchen in those houses is often a piece of furniture standing in a room rather than a wall of storage. Treating it as ordinary cabinetry ruins it.

Zoning and drainage do the rest of the shaping. Lot sizes rise steeply as you move away from the village and much of the town is served by individual septic systems and not by mains drainage, which puts a real cost on moving a sink. We check that at the survey stage so the layouts we draw are ones you can actually build.