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Planning any kitchen remodeling project demands careful balancing of function and design. When the brief involves creating a kosher kitchen for a family of two adults and seven children, the challenge can only increase.

To reconfigure this room as a kosher kitchen, certified kitchen designer David McNulty of McNulty Design Group created three zones for preparing meat, dairy and other food, known as pareve, and installed two dishwashers and sinks. With 10 feet of potential storage space taken up by the dishwashers and sinks, extra upper cabinetry was added, as well as space-saving devices such as roll-out trays.

"With so many items, I needed to position the cabinetry and appliances carefully, so that doors could be opened freely and people could move around easily without colliding into each other," he says.

For display space, McNulty installed glass shelves in front of the original bay windows, and created a narrow recess within the subway backsplash tiles above the main cooktop.

Visually, the family was looking for the old-world ambiance of a traditional English kitchen. To achieve this, McNulty specified painted cabinetry with inset panels and English latches and pulls.