Yes, Your Fridge Can Go at the End of a Peninsula—Here’s How
For hands-on advice from designers and pro DIYers, plus more scrappy before-and-after transformations, subscribe to Reno. Let your in-box do all the hard work—for now. For photographer and avid cook Thayer Gowdy, there’s nothing worse than having to trek across the kitchen to grab something out of the refrigerator. “I hate the idea of it not being close to the counter,” she says. “The flow is just wrong for me.” So when she took her new Ojai, California, home down to the studs, she decided the appliance would have pride of place in her open-concept space. The only catch was she didn’t want people in the living room staring at the back of it, nor did she like the idea of building a floor-to-ceiling...