Creekside Co-op Design

 

Our new community-owned gourmet food market is up and running!
It was a great privilege for me to provide interior design and casework construction for Creekside, a wonderful new community owned food market in Elkins Park PA. The $4 million renovation project involved gutting and rebuilding a derelict neighborhood supermarket into a modern store featuring fresh organic produce, deli and prepared foods, catering, and a cafe.

I was tapped to create a 3-D model of the building for exterior and interior design purposes. Here are a couple renderings from the model, along with pics of the completed project

 

 

A very nice change from spring of 2012 when the building was a gutted shell, as below:

 

 

My 3-D model was also useful in planning for placement of shelving, checkout counters, and other interior features

We envisioned a mural-sized photo of our namesake creek welcoming shoppers into the vestibule. Below is my scaled hand-sketch for the layout, and below that, a photo of the finished vestibule. 

The interior has undergone a similarly stunning transformation as shown below, the first picture the west wall after gutting, and the same wall now.

 

More interior images: (click any to enlarge)

Produce section

Grocery Isles

 

Dairy Case

Deli

Salad & Hot Food Bar

 Below another example of the interior 3-D rendering and the completed store

 

 


Cafe area--I loved finding the big fan!



Yours truly enjoying a cup of coffee in the cafe with designer-consultant Amy Cuker



 

New England Craftman Fireplace

..with beadboard cabinetry and shelving

Simple New England Craft style for a vintage condo in Cambridge MA

This project began with my clients wish for a fireplace and some extra warmth, but it quickly got more complicated. He found a double sided fireplace and liked the idea of one side facing the living room and the other side facing the kitchen. The kitchen now has a cozy breakfast area near the hearth, along with extra pantry storage, while the living room fireplace is surrounded by beautiful bookshelves and cabinetry concealing a media center.


The fireplace structure required a deep mantle shelf. We selected an old-growth heartpine plank obtained from an architectural salvage yard. Visible vertical sawblade marks suggest it was cut over 200 years ago, since circular sawblades came into common usage in New England mills around 1800.

Media Center with Retractable Doors

Above, the kitchen side just after placement of the fireplace unit. Below, the same view with the new cabinetry, countertop, and tile in place.

Cottage Style Custom Cabinetry for Flatscreen

This cabinet fits very comfortably into a Cape Cod condo/second home with New England cottage decor. But with floor space at a premium, this corner was the only possible location for a 42" flatscreen TV, which the owners did not want to be visible. Since the cabinet is deceptively shallow, (only 12" deep) standard retractable media-cabinet doors would have blocked the screen view on the left side. To solve the dilemma, I made a custom hinge/folding door system so that both doors open to the right. The TV is wall-mounted on a standard armature so it can come forward and pivot to the perfect viewing angle.

Cable box, blue-ray player, and wireless router all fit in the  lower compartment. The "dry sink" rail along the back of the cabinet top forms a nook for a state-of-the-art Boze sound bar that distributes audio perfectly.