Santa Barbara Estate: Kitchen & Hallway | Inside Kingdom & Co. Podcast

In this episode of Inside Kingdom & Co., host Lincoln Rogers and builder John McDonough walk through the Santa Barbara Estate kitchen and hallway in the Santa Barbara Estate. They discuss the seamless Parisian countertop sourced from New York, knotty hickory cabinetry, copper sinks, hand-painted tile, custom lighting, and a stunning groin-arch hallway inspired by old European churches.

Lincoln: Let’s talk a little bit about the kitchen area.

Going back to the countertops, I know we have more of those countertops from Paris here as well as porcelain countertops.

What else went into this kitchen?

Talk to us a little bit more about it.

John: Yeah, so the countertops was the main one.

Once again, the knotty hickory on the cabinets.

I really like the detail of the wood around the windows.

As you can see, they’re all fully cased on these individual windows.

I love the faucets, the copper sink.

I love the style of the hood, the plaster hood with, once again, all the hand-painted tile.

This top here, the owner did not want a seam in this top, and we couldn’t find a slab this size anywhere.

Lincoln: Right.

John: And we finally sourced one back in New York.

So this came from New York in a pallet, and the challenging part was hoping that it showed up and that wasn’t broken.

Lincoln: Right.

John: But we were able to get it in one slab, which I think just turned out amazing because you don’t have any seams or joints in this.

Lincoln: Yeah.

It’s really clean.

Again, the attention to detail is phenomenal.

So, John, talk to us about this hallway.

John: So what I love in the old Spanish homes is they had these cathedral-like ceilings that you see in the old churches back in the day.

Lincoln: Right.

John: And as you go to Europe and you see a lot of how they did these, and it’s called a groin arch.

So it’s basically everything comes together as a full radius into the middle.

But the beauty of this with the light shining on the arch and how it looks with everything coming through this, it’s like a tunnel of cutting through both ways.

Lincoln: Right.

John: And I just think it’s incredible.

Lincoln: And it’s so funny because this is off the kitchen.

Most people don’t pay attention to these type of details, but yet you guys spent the energy and effort to make this just every detail, every spot in the home has attention to detail.

John: Yeah, the architect just did a fantastic job working with the owner and what the owner wanted and collaborating as a team.

It was a fun project because as a team, we all were able to work together and pull it all together, and that’s what made it so fun.

Lincoln: Does this tie into the same type of fireplace that you had in the former living room or dining room?

Is that, is this the same?

John: Yeah.

So every fireplace in the house, we’ll show you a couple more, but once again, plaster.

So this was all framed and then they came in and coated it with the plaster finish.

And the challenging part about that is, is if you chip it or nick it or you get a spot on it, you can’t fix it because you can’t paint it.

So I love the style of this.

I love how it goes up in, this took a lot of time on these lights.

It doesn’t sound like it would, but these lights, we did four different mock-ups of these lights because he wanted the light to shine on a specific area right here in the range and to get them on a, with a radius here and not to get light to just shine down, it was a challenge.

But you can see that they don’t stick out, they’re not in your face, but it’s perfect lighting down here.

Lincoln: I noticed because when I walked into this room, the backsplash just looks so pretty.

John: Yeah.

Lincoln: It makes more sense.

Yeah.

John: So, I like that detail.