There’s no shortage of beautiful kitchens that only reach their full potential at the end of the year, when holiday parties and other festive gatherings push ranges and worktops to their limits. But the owners of one Virginia property had a specific vision: a light-filled entertaining pavilion, separate from their main house, that would come alive on weekends, with dueling chefs facing off to serve their family and friends.

“The idea was that they’d do those events every Sunday evening,” says Charles Owen, proprietor of Owen Design Concepts, who was enlisted to turn this dream into a reality. “It’s called ‘warding away the Sunday blues,’” he adds with a chuckle.

The resulting 6,000-square-foot structure, which evokes images of conservatories and greenhouses one of the owners found online

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