TWO DOGS, THREE CATS, AND one very persuasive couple. Designer Sarah Robertson, the Westchester County, NY–based principal of Studio Dearborn was hesitant to take on a new client in Nashville. That was until she heard the brief. The client “asked for salvaged Silver Fox brick from her hometown in Wisconsin, a super-organized kitchen to make it easy to cook and entertain, and, most important, plenty of room for the ‘Furry Five,’ as the family calls their pets, to move around,” says Robertson. The job was hard to resist.
First came the request for orderliness. Cabinet doors and drawers now open to reveal built-in knife blocks, space for coffee pods, slots for cookware lids, vertical cutting board storage, and, of course, pet food bins (Robertson is TikTok-famous for her custom tidying…