Catering Kitchen & Butler’s Pantry

Designed by Melanie Millner for the Atlanta Showhouse | Floral Design by Kappi Naftel

Tour Melanie Millner’s catering kitchen and learn more about her inspiration and sources for this beautiful space.  If you enjoy this feature, subscribe to FLOWER magazine for more inspiring homes, gardens, lifestyle content, and of course, florals!

“This is the workhorse kitchen, and I wanted to keep it understated but elegant at the same time.”-Melanie Millner

CATERING KITCHEN AND BUTLER’S PANTRY

Catering kitchen with a gray plaster pastellone finish from Domingue that covers the Kingdom Woodworks cabinetry, ceiling, walls, and hood. Room designed by Melanie Millner.
Photo by Emily Followill

The design began with a gray plaster pastellone finish from Domingue that covers the Kingdom Woodworks cabinetry, ceiling, walls, and hood. “It’s super durable but has such texture and depth, along with an ethereal glow.”

Catering kitchen with a gray plaster pastellone finish from Domingue that covers the Kingdom Woodworks cabinetry, ceiling, walls, and hood. Room designed by Melanie Millner.
Photo by Emily Followill

With the exception of a Viking range, the appliances have integrated fronts. Melanie kept all cabinet panels simple with streamlined custom hardware in unlacquered brass. Accents of red, as well as movement in the stone countertops and backsplash, give the room pops of energy.

Cabinets witth a gray plaster pastellone finish from Domingue and counter with a red arrangement of pyracantha berries and flowers. Glass doored cabinet lined with gold wallpaper is filled with red and white china and vases of red ranunculus.
Photo by Emily Followill

“As you move from the dining room to the butler’s pantry, you glimpse this fabulous gold wallpaper lining the display case. It needed that bit of glamour to connect.”

Three paintings by Dane Carder on wall of catering kitchen designed by Melanie Millner
Photo by Emily Followill

On the back wall, Melanie hung a trio of mixed media works by Dane Carder. The indoor/outdoor rug by Stark is stylish yet easy to clean when the pasta sauce inevitably splatters.

FLORAL SPOTLIGHT

“The textures, colors and movement in nature have always influenced my design process with each season bringing new perspective and life,” says floral designer Kappi Naftel of Birmingham. For the catering kitchen, she created a blazing composition of heirloom chrysanthemums, ligustrum berries, salmon-colored ranunculus, pyracantha berries, Bradford pear leaves, and fall grasses.

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Arrangement of red pyracantha berriese, red and gold mums, green berries, grasses, and coral ranunculus.
Photo by Emily Followill

Sources

Who Did It & Where To Get It

APPLIANCES

Viking

ART

Tew Galleries

CABINETRY

Kingdom Woodworks

COUNTERTOP

Marmi Natural Stone

FABRICS

Pierre Frey

FAUCETS/FIXTURES

Waterworks

FINE CHINA

fête

FLOOR COVERINGS

Stark Carpet

HARDWARE

Kingdom Woodworks
Sherle Wagner International

LIGHTING

Visual Comfort & Co.

PAINT

Benjamin Moore
Domingue Architectural Finishes

WALLPAPER

Holly Hunt

WINDOW TREATMENTS

Douglass Workroom

Adjoining Spaces

Dining Room

Library

West Gallery, Cutting Room, & Powder Room