When designing a workspace, the staff kitchen is often an afterthought, another space to tackle just as budgets have dried up. Not so at Food52’s New York office, designed by Brad Sherman and Nina Etnier of Brad Sherman Workshop. The stylish kitchen is surprisingly affordable when dissected into its key elements. Here, we look at the sources the designers used to pull the look together.

Above: The whitewashed kitchen is more tonal than flat white, with layers of bleached red oak, gray, and both matte and glossy white.

Above: Electrolux is paired with Ikea and custom tweaks for overall affordability.
Materials

Above: The designers had custom flat-panel kitchen cabinets made from MDF that they sprayed with Farrow & Ball’s Purbeck Stone paint color. The shelving brackets are also painted with the color.
Above: The designers worked with Ikea’s Hammarp Oak Countertop ($189 for the 98-inch length) and applied a bleach solution three times to get the whitewashed oak color. They then finished the counters with a food-safe sealant.

Above: Brad and Nina sourced shelving brackets from Amazon?Knape & Vogt White Heavy Duty Shelf Brackets ($11.29 each)?and paired it with reclaimed wood from the previous office to create open shelving in the kitchen.

Above: The subway tile in the kitchen is the 3×6 Campus Field Tile from Waterworks.
Appliances

Above: Electrolux’s 32-Inch Built-In Refrigerator is $2,108 at AJ Madison.

Above: The Electrolux 24...