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Mercury-Glass Kitchen & Dining Remodel — Winter Springs, FL
A luxurious Winter Springs kitchen and dining space rebuilt with layered texture — antiqued mercury-glass cabinet fronts, a brass-strapped hood, and a slate-blue island — designed and built by KBF Design Gallery from our Maitland showroom.
The Remodeling Story
The texture does the luxury here — layer by layer.
Step into the transformation of this luxurious Winter Springs home, where we brought the kitchen and dining space to life with custom features, layered textures, and exacting finishes. Before, the room spoke a heavy Tuscan dialect — tan cabinetry, busy granite, an ornate iron chandelier over the island. The bones were generous; the layers were dated.
The signature layer: antiqued mercury glass, carried from the display uppers all the way through to the bar.
That is the custom feature this page is about. Antiqued, smoky mirror-glass fronts turn the upper display cabinets into something between furniture and jewelry — and the same language reappears through the arched pass-through, where the bar wears a gold-veined antiqued-mirror backsplash under brass-grille cabinet doors. One idea, threaded through two rooms, is what makes a house feel designed rather than decorated.
Around it, every detail was chosen to serve that idea: a slate-blue island under lantern pendants against soft-white perimeter cabinetry, a white hood strapped in brass, a marble-look slab backsplash, and soft lighting layered from the glass cabinets’ interior glow to the pendants. The layout reads seamless — kitchen into dining into bar — a space that feels cozy, refined, and built for making memories for years to come.
More than 50 Winter Springs projects over two decades carry this kind of work.
The Plates
Before · After
Both photographs show this kitchen — the Tuscan-era room the family lived with, and the layered, softly lit space that replaced it. Room-level pairing; the two frames were not shot from the same camera position.
The Record Behind the Room
Questions We Hear
What is antiqued mercury glass?
Mirror glass deliberately aged — smoked, veined, and softened so it glows instead of reflecting sharply. On cabinet fronts it turns storage into furniture; as a bar backsplash it turns a nook into a destination. It is a finish you specify in design, not an accessory you add later.
Why remodel the kitchen and dining space together?
Because they share sightlines, and a remodel that stops at the doorway announces itself forever. Treating the two rooms as one project let the mercury-glass idea, the palette, and the lighting carry through — which is why the result reads seamless.
How do you make a kitchen feel ‘layered’?
Vary the texture, repeat the palette. Here: painted cabinetry, aged mirror, brass straps and grilles, veined stone, and a slate-blue island — five textures, one family of tones. Layering fails when the colors multiply; it works when the textures do.
Should the island be a different color?
When the room can carry it, yes — a contrast island anchors the plan and breaks up a white kitchen without darkening it. This slate blue reads as furniture, which is exactly the point.
Does KBF handle the design and the construction?
Yes — one team, from the first drawing through the final inspection. The glass fronts, the arch, and the bar all had to be decided together. Our six-phase process is laid out at how we work.
Does the five-year warranty cover this work?
Our five-year craftsmanship warranty covers the work we build, including the cabinetry and glass-front installation. The details are published at our craftsmanship warranty.
Luxury is texture, threaded with intent.
Bring us the room that feels dated but generous. A design consultation is where every one of these projects started.
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