A contemporary kitchen in cherry and birch, individually designed and handmade to create a light, practical and flexible kitchen space combined with a family dining area in what was a dark basement room .
Pale oak and painted kitchen, Ottery St Mary, Devon.
Limed Oak and painted kitchen, Gittisham, Devon
Kitchen and utility room with recessed aluminium shadow-line finger-pull detail and birch ply facing panels in a whitened urethane resin finish. The worktops are in solid American cherry with a urethane resin finish. The mobile island unit includes storage for fresh produce with extra cupboard storage beneath.
3010mm x 4900mm x 2430mm
Private commission, designed for the basement of a London family home
The fridge is recessed into the wall opening next to the main entrance doorway on the left and the mobile island unit is shown pushed back in the recess of the original fireplace on the right. The flooring is in natural lino sheets with the narrow vertical bookcase on the right hand side creating a visual break to mark the end of the kitchen.
The kitchen was designed to double as a kitchen and dining area with the kitchen having quite a subdued character to aid the transition between the two types of use.
The painted bookcase unit is here seen in elevation with a microwave oven mounted on a tambour fronted unit concealing kettle, toaster etc.
The chimney recess is here seen with a wall mounted cabinet for crockery with sliding doors in veneered American cherry and beneath the mobile island unit which fits back in the recess providing a sideboard for the times that the room is used as a dining area. The wall mounted cabinet includes flush mounted spotlights on the underside of the cabinet.
The mobile island unit is here seen pulled out to act as part of the kitchen area.In the far corner is a bookcase unit below the concealed wall-mounted boiler which has a door and shelves in American cherry and painted side panels. The predominant use of the cherry facing panels in the dining area contrasts with the paler birch facade of the kitchen units.
The cherry panels of the wall mounted cabinet and the concealed boiler on the right create a warmer feel for the dining area, which opens out next to the boiler unit with a pair of double doors into the garden, creating a good light source for the otherwise window-less basement space.
The utility room area on the other side of the double doors leading to the garden, made use of an original side room below an external garden staircase carrying on the theme of the kitchen units in pale birch with recessed aluminium finger pulls to house the washing machine and dryer. The walls were painted a deep red to create a warmer contrast in the confined space.
