Custom wood kitchen cabinets in Oklahoma City with island bar stools

Maxwell Home (2025)

Materials: Rift Sawn White Oak, American made Maple veneer core plywood. 

This is my personal kitchen and living space. A water leak turned into a flood that necessitated a full remodel of a majority of our home. I was excited to build something unique and meaningful for my family. Up to this point in time I had never built a gola style kitchen. A gola is an Italian design element ubiquitous in modern European design. It is a recessed channel on the faces of the cabinets rather than attached protruding knobs and pulls. The resulting look is sometimes known as a “European handless kitchen”.

I used a stainless steel gola to match our appliances and grain-matched rift sawn white oak slab cabinet faces from floor to ceiling with the grain running horizontally. The kitchen features two full height Fulterer Pantry Slides that carry up to 450 lbs. each, a dual pull out trash can unit, pull out adjustable small appliance drawers, and drawers in the island that are 30” long. There are two push-to-open horizontal doors; one over the microwave, and the other over the fridge. The kitchen also features a Ruvati sink with drop in utensils, Delta faucet, and White Eve natural stone quartzite countertops with a beautiful waterfall edge. The island has two push to open electrical outlets for convenience.

The primary puzzle to solve in this project was determining how to end a necessary beam into a wall of cabinets. The solution was to wrap an old brick fireplace in a gorgeous porcelain onyx look tile and carry it across the beam into the backsplash. The result is stunning! This same tile was used as the back face of the island.

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