Whole House
Farmhouse Chic
June 2026
Wade "Bigfoot" Tourdot
Appleton, WI
Some projects touch one room, but this whole-home custom cabinetry project in Eastern Wisconsin wasn’t one of them. This one touched a little more than that: a kitchen, two bar areas, a great room, a floor-to-ceiling china cabinet built into an archway, and a breakfast nook, all tied together by one confident color choice and a whole lot of hidden detail. It’s the kind of project that takes months of planning and even longer to build, because almost nothing in it came off a shelf.
Builder: Burg Homes LLC
Paint Colors: Ash Rose (N130-2), Urbane Bronze (SW 7048)
The house is built around a bold pairing: soft Ash Rose cabinetry against a moody, deep Urbane Bronze in the bar areas and built-ins, with warm bronze hardware carrying the accent through every room. It’s the kind of color choice that could easily go wrong (pink cabinetry isn’t the safe, default option) and it didn’t. As Wade put it walking through the finished space, it was a risk that paid off, the same way an earlier, equally bold color choice had for this family. The palette isn’t decorative for its own sake, either; it’s used consistently enough, room to room, that the house reads as one project rather than a series of unrelated renovations.
Across the house: a 92-inch custom range hood built entirely from scratch, a backlit quartz backsplash that glows a warm white gold color behind the range, 100% real wood cabinetry throughout, a floor-scribed slip-in china cabinet with a full rounded arch, hidden dog food and water stations with brass bowls, and enough soft-close rollouts and pull-outs to make every drawer feel like it was built around exactly what goes inside it.
Blushing Bronze Revival was built for a family in Appleton, but this level of craftsmanship travels. Bigfoot Custom Cabinetry designs and builds custom cabinetry for homes across Eastern Wisconsin, including Green Lake, Madison, Milwaukee, Kohler, Elkhart Lake, and Green Bay. If you’re picturing a space this considered in your own home, reach out to start the conversation.