I designed this cabinet to utilize an awkward trapezoidal space next to a duct work chase in an 1890s Queen Anne. The cabinet’s casing matches the door and window trim in the home’s formal rooms, featuring chip-carved vines and fluted columns. Client Richard Harter made the two vertical columns on the cabinet’s sides himself, shaping and carving the corner blocks as part of a large-scale restoration. The rest of the work is by NR Hiller Design. Doves and petunias on the frieze recall the clients’ front porch in summer.

 Photography by Kendall Reeves, Spectrum Studio of Photography and Design