The house on Cousins Island in Yarmouth, Maine, was built as a family getaway by a railroad tycoon named Sir Henry Thornton. “It was a wonderful project,” says Tina Rodda at Kitchen Cove Cabinetry, a design and build firm in Portland. “The owners love this house and wanted to honor its roots.”
The new kitchen has a clean and balanced design that alludes to an old farmhouse without re-creating a period kitchen. What’s most stunning, though, is the well-handled use of salvaged architectural elements and materials. “When I was designing the space,” Rodda explains, “I gave the homeowner dimensions for the various places where we could, potentially, make use of salvaged doors or furniture. Then she scoured New England to find them!”