The Pacific Heights Kitchen
The Brief
A Pacific Heights kitchen tends to fail in the same quiet way: it was built for a kind of cooking nobody does anymore. This one had the address and the light — what it lacked was a room organized around how the family actually cooks, eats, and ends up standing around at the end of the night.
The assignment: rebuild the kitchen around real use, and bring the primary bath up to the same standard.
The Approach
We rebuilt the room around a single book-matched stone island, with prep, gathering, and storage resolved into one clean gesture and sightlines held from the range straight through to the table. Appliances integrated behind cabinetry so the architecture reads, not the hardware.
- The island. A book-matched stone slab carries the working surface — prep on one side, company on the other.
- Integrated appliances. Paneled and tucked, so the eye lands on the stone and the millwork instead of a wall of stainless.
- The primary bath. Recomposed in the same material language — a freestanding tub, a double vanity, and a glass shower that keeps the room full of light.
The Result
A kitchen that finally matches its address — generous, quiet, and built around the way the household lives. The bath carries the same restraint, so the two rooms read as one project rather than two.
“A good island isn’t furniture you walk around. It’s the decision the whole kitchen is built on.”
— Jacob Bachar, Principal, We Do Construction
Project Credits
| Design-Build | We Do Construction |
|---|---|
| Principal | Jacob Bachar |
| License | CSLB #1096552 · Class B, C-36 |
| Photography | Project photography, We Do Construction |
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