As a custom home builder for more than 40 years, Jerry Meek has helped many clients create their ideal kitchens. Usually, however, they want to start from scratch with a new space—not model it after one they were leaving behind. “I think this may have been a first for us,” says Meek, president of Desert Star Construction in Arizona. He explains that his clients loved their old home, which he and his team had also built. But with their children now older and on their own, they were ready to downsize to a more manageable space.Their previous house pulled its themes from 17th-century Europe and could have passed for an old villa in the South of France.“They wanted that same feel on a smaller scale,” Meek says,“so that defined the whole project, and it’s how we approached the kitchen.”
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