Previous pages: There are two fully-equipped
kitchens arranged back-to-back in this expansive
lakeside home. Shown here is the living kitchen
– the day-to-day kitchen adjacent to the living
spaces. Behind this is the equally impressive
entertaining kitchen, used as a working kitchen
by chefs when clients of the owner’s chocolate
business are guests in the home.
Above: This polished stainless steel and glass
cabinet for dish storage was designed to fit neatly
into the dimensions of a narrow structural wall
next to the living kitchen.
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It’s not unusual these days for a home
to have two kitchen areas, with the main
kitchen out front plus a pantry or scullery
out back for storage or some of the messier
aspects of cooking or clean-up. Most often,
the back kitchen is very much a secondary
space, tucked away in an enclosed room
with little or no natural light.
The large lakeside home featured here
has two kitchens – but they are a far cry
from that typical arrangement.
Created by designer Mick De Giulio,
the two substantial kitchens sit back to
back, both fully equipped and functioning,
and both spacious and light-filled.
De Giulio says he was fortunate that
the home’s architect, Michael Abraham,
came to him about the kitchen early in the
design process.
“He sketched out the footprint of the
house and indicated an approximate posi-
tion for the kitchen, and let me decide
what I wanted to do,” says De Giulio.
He describes his resulting design as
a layered kitchen, with one layer used
for everyday living and another layer for