A top kitchen design expert has used a successful case study to highlight how some of the best kitchen balance classic and contemporary design features to meet the needs of the modern homeowenrs.Featured in Kitchen and Bath Design News, re-modeller Jeff Oring created a fusion of European styling with American trends for a couple who recently moved from England to the US.Oring said The homeowners tastes ran to more of a traditional European sensibility, so our job was to take a contemporary design and completely rethink it.A key feature is the island in the middle of the room, which features an undermount sink in order to allow greater flexibility in preparing ingredients and allowing the couple both reported to be keen chefs to work simultaneously.Whats more, the kitchen features not one but two In-Sink-Erator food waste disposer units meaning that, even with all the attention to detail in aesthetics, the ethical and environmental side of the rooms use didnt go unnoticed.