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Farmhouse Kitchen Remodel — Mount Dora, FL
A full-height wall and a raised granite bar came out of this Mount Dora home, and a barrel-vaulted ceiling went in over the range wall — a two-tone, beaded-inset farmhouse kitchen designed and built by KBF Design Gallery from our Maitland showroom.
The Remodeling Story
The wall came down. The ceiling became the architecture.
When our clients bought their home in Mount Dora, they called it their forever home — and then lived for a while with a kitchen that didn’t agree. Builder-grade cabinets, a raised granite bar on a half wall, flooring that changed at every doorway, and a room that sat beside the family and dining spaces without ever joining them.
The project’s order records list the demolition plainly: the full-height wall and the raised bar came out, and one wood-look tile floor now runs in a single direction through every room they used to separate. What replaced the wall isn’t another wall — it’s overhead. A barrel-vaulted ceiling springs across the range wall, and beneath it stands the stained X-panel canopy hood, flanked by black iron sconces over a patterned tile backsplash.
A kitchen this open needs one architectural gesture to hold it together. Here, that gesture is the ceiling.
The cabinetry is beaded inset throughout — the perimeter painted Polar white on maple, the island and hood stained Dusty Roads on alder under a Van Dyke glaze, a two-tone split that keeps the opened room from reading as one white mass. Quartz counters carry a farmhouse sink cut into the island run, with power routed inside the ends so the slab stays clean. A walk-in pantry sits behind a glass-paneled door lettered PANTRY, a wine cubby and beverage center anchor the coffee landing, and the same stained alder returns as a built-in console in the family room beyond.
None of it is decoration for its own sake. The two-tone split puts the darker, more forgiving finish where chairs and hands land every day; the pantry door adds storage the old plan never had; and the single flooring direction is what makes three former rooms read as one.
One detail carries across the whole project: the clients’ FEED & SEED sign hangs in the before photograph and hangs in the finished room. Same house, same family — a kitchen that finally belongs to both.
The Plates
Before · After
Both photographs look toward the pantry wall — the raised bar in the before stands where the island and its attached table stand today, and the clients’ FEED & SEED sign hangs in both. Camera positions are close, not identical.
The Record Behind the Room
Questions We Hear
What was removed to open this kitchen?
A full-height wall and the raised granite bar that separated the kitchen from the dining and family spaces. The project’s order records list both removals — the before photograph on this page shows the bar standing exactly where the island and its attached farmhouse table stand now.
What is a barrel ceiling?
A shallow vault — an arch instead of a flat plane — built here over the range wall during the remodel. It frames the stained canopy hood and gives the opened room one piece of architecture that everything else hangs from.
Why two cabinet colors?
The cabinetry is beaded inset throughout: the perimeter painted Polar white on maple, the island and hood stained Dusty Roads on alder with a Van Dyke glaze. The split keeps a large open kitchen from reading as a single white mass, and it puts the darker, more forgiving finish where hands and chairs actually land.
Do you take projects in Mount Dora?
Yes — our Maitland showroom serves Mount Dora and the surrounding communities, and this kitchen is one of those projects. The honest answer for any address is a conversation about scope and schedule.
Does KBF handle the design and the construction?
Yes — one team from the first drawing through the final inspection. The wall removal, the barrel ceiling, and the cabinetry all had to be decided together, and that only works when design and construction share a roof. Our six-phase process is laid out at how we work.
Does the five-year warranty cover this work?
Our five-year craftsmanship warranty runs from a project’s completion and covers the work we build — the framing, the ceiling work, and the cabinetry installation included. The details are published at our craftsmanship warranty.
Your kitchen has one big move in it, too.
Bring us the room and the way your household actually uses it. Consultations start at our Maitland showroom — bring photographs, and leave with a sense of what your kitchen could carry.
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