Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Foggy Bottom, DC

Foggy Bottom residential is dominated by mid-century and contemporary high-rise condos, including GW campus housing, the Hampshire, Potomac Place, and the pocket of 19th-century townhouses near 25th Street that have survived the neighborhood's successive waves of construction. Most Pannello work in Foggy Bottom is condo cabinetry: galley kitchens that run eight to twelve feet, builder-spec finishes that a new owner replaces, and occasionally a wardrobe wall in a bedroom that was built without a closet. The buildings are dense, the freight elevators are shared, and install windows are tight.

A Foggy Bottom galley kitchen asks the designer for maximum function in a constrained run. Pannello draws these with integrated pantry columns at one end, a continuous counter in quartz or porcelain that runs wall to wall, push-to-open hardware so there are no visible pulls to interrupt the face, and undercabinet LED that carries the lighting load the overhead fixture cannot. We specify each drawer bank to the actual items going in it. A galley kitchen drawn to what the owner actually cooks with works differently from one adapted from a template.

For Foggy Bottom townhouses near 25th Street, with narrower Victorian footprints, tighter stair turns, and plaster walls, Pannello flat-panel delivery resolves the problem that defeats most American cabinet companies. Panels are sized to the stair during design, assemble on site, and anchor to studs through the plaster using the same technique we use in Georgetown and Chevy Chase. Blum and Salice hardware, 18mm carcass. 3 to 5 week fabrication from sign-off.