MUTED PALETTE, BRIGHT DESIGN

A Newbury Colonial gets a nature-inspired kitchen and bathroom.

- By Katherine Gustafson / Photographs by Tara Lee Callow

Lisa Ritchie, owner and principal of Lisa Ritchie Interiors in North Andover, creates a warm and peaceful kitchen and adjacent bathroom.

As nature-lovers and owners of an Instagram-famous dog, Sophie and Justin Hur spend lots of time outdoors. When it came to renovating the kitchen of their newly purchased traditional Colonial-style Newbury home, they wanted to bring some of the outside in. They hired Lisa Ritchie, owner/principal of Lisa Ritchie Interiors in North Andover, to create a warm, peaceful sensibility in their kitchen and adjacent bathroom.

Ritchie collaborated with Heartwood Kitchens to design a modern, well-laid-out space that would serve modern needs while fitting seamlessly into the period home. Meanwhile, she sought out nature-inspired colors, materials and finishes to give the space an inviting lightness and serenity that matched the landscape outside the window.

On the wall over the stove, a custom range hood in a Venetian plaster was added. Ritchie, along with Heartwood kitchens, created built-in cabinetry for the stainless-steel refrigerator.

"They love a muted palette. They like brass, brown, green," Ritchie says. "Anything that is subtle but lots of texture."

Texture and varied color notes are prominent in the tiles that stretch all the way up the walls, which carry varying shades of white and off-white.