The deft work of an architect–interior design team is transforming this dated kitchen and prep area into a sophisticated entertainer’s dream.

It’s not that the Kitchen in the existing house Tiana Cooper bought was beastly. Someone had clearly put time, effort, and expense into it a few decades previously (not to mention an extra heaping of brown). But the longer Cooper lived in the house, the more the heavy stonework, inconsistently performing appliances and chopped-up visual flow bugged her.