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Susan Drawdy's new San Diego kitchen may be green, but a bold burgundy range powers the color scheme.

"I said, 'Could we put a color in there?'" Susan recalls asking interior designer Laura Birns. "I never thought it would work, but it's absolutely beautiful."

Birns had assumed stainless-steel appliances would be smashing in the eco-friendly kitchen, but her client's call for color took the design to a totally new and beautiful place. When Birns found the deep red professional-grade range, she new it's warm yet dynamic color would energize the contemoprary-style space. "It so stes off the other colors" Birns says. "It picks up the reds and woods, offsets whites and blues, and plays off the metal and materials in the warmest way."

The result is a fun kitchen where friends get in on the cooking action by gathering around a painter's-palette-shape countertop attached to an internally illuinated island, which glows a cool electric blue. "I like friendly forms," Birns says of the curvy counter. "It's a french curve revisited, pretty sexy-looking."

The kitchen and adjacent eating area accomodate Susan and her two children, Austin and Tucker, as well as women-only nights and large family gatherings. But there's more to the space than funky color and fun atmosphere.