95 fashionable kitchen concepts from the world’s greatest inside designers

Designing a kitchen can appear a frightening job; there’s a lot to think about and so many shifting components to get proper. Plus, as the toughest working room in the home, and one of the vital everlasting and costly to embellish, getting your kitchen design proper the primary time is admittedly value doing. So what are crucial issues to think about when designing a kitchen?

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What are the six kinds of kitchen layouts?How a lot is a brand new kitchen?Kitchen concepts from the Home & Backyard archive

Begin by understanding how you utilize the kitchen, the place you cook dinner, while you cook dinner, in case you have area for a kitchen desk and the way usually you store to kind out how a lot storage you want and what format to have. It’s additionally crucial method to work out the place your kitchen lights will go. Take into consideration how usually you may wish to entertain within the kitchen – together with whether or not you need it arrange to take action in any respect; chances are you’ll choose to chivvy company right into a eating or lounge and hold the kitchen to your self as an area the place you’ll be able to cook dinner with extra room to breathe.

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What are the six kinds of kitchen layouts?
How a lot is a brand new kitchen?
Kitchen concepts from the Home & Backyard archive

What are the six kinds of kitchen layouts?

In fact, few kitchens are the identical, however there are six kitchen layouts that almost all will fall into.

A single-wall kitchen is when the items run down only one aspect
A galley kitchen is a slim, lengthy area with cupboards and items on both size of the kitchen.
An L-shaped kitchen is simply that, offering two sides of the work floor
A U-shaped kitchen provides a 3rd size to it.
An island kitchen could be any of the above (apart from a galley) with that all-important island within the center, usually used as a spot for the cooker in order that the area is extra sociable.
Lastly, a peninsula kitchen incorporates an island of kinds, however one which juts out from a size of items and is connected to these.

Our columnist Rita Konig says primary is the kitchen’s format. “Suppose onerous about how you’ll transfer round it. I ensure that the dishwasher and kitchen bin are on both aspect of the kitchen sink. I just like the cutlery drawer to be away from the principle motion (the range and the sink) and ideally near the eating space, so it’s simple to entry for laying the kitchen desk with out anybody getting in the best way of the cook dinner or the particular person washing up.

“I additionally like separating the hob and the oven. My hob is on a stand-alone counter with shelving beneath for the saucepans. I choose to offer an island a special remedy to the remainder of the kitchen to save lots of having acres of the identical floor – mine is painted a special color and has stainless-steel kitchen worktops as an alternative of Corian. You may also select to have a kitchen island increased than your counters to make utilizing it extra snug.”

Jane Taylor, alternatively, emphasises the persona of the kitchen. “It’s a sense of place and persona that I intention for when designing another person’s kitchen. I usually begin the dialog by way of how a shopper may like their kitchen to really feel, moderately than look. I’m very eager on hanging artwork in kitchens and cookbooks on show heat up a room. They’re comforting, a file of 1’s life – the eating places you’re keen on, the vacations you loved.” She additionally considers that the kitchen must be on the coronary heart of the home, in distinction to extra old style home set-ups. “In older homes, the kitchen tended to be within the basement, usually miles away from rooms considered extra necessary. I normally recommend they’re moved into the center of the final dwelling area, in order to be a part of the move of the home.”

How a lot is a brand new kitchen?

This is among the most continuously requested questions on kitchen design, and one of many hardest to reply, as a lot depends on measurement and spec. On the very reasonably priced finish of the spectrum, a small IKEA kitchen put in by your builder can simply are available in at below £10,000. Excessive road retailers like Magnet and Wickes are considerably costlier, particularly when you use their set up companies. When you begin taking a look at bespoke kitchens, you could possibly do it affordably with a neighborhood joiner, however many bespoke corporations have a decrease spending restrict of round £25,000, and this could clearly go a lot increased for a big kitchen. When you're after a extra reasonably priced renovation, it's completely potential to spruce issues up by changing your kitchen cupboard doorways, portray your kitchen cabinets, or putting in new kitchen tiles and a brand new worktop.

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Kitchen concepts from the Home & Backyard archive

Daniel Schäfer1/95
Within the kitchen of Victoria Krauss and Fernando Alcolea's Menorcan farmhouse, regionally sourced tiles, glassware and ceramics create a vibrant and characterful backdrop for the industrial-style iron desk, leather-based chairs and stools purchased at UK auctions, and a chic Nineteenth-century chandelier.
Christopher Horwood2/95
The kitchen in inside designer Virginia White's Hampstead mansion flat is a imaginative and prescient in pink, impressed by conventional Dutch interiors. The cupboards are painted in Edward Bulmer's 'Jonquil' and the chequerboard ground tiles are from Fired Earth.
Christopher Horwood3/95
Cabinets show a cheerful mixture of pottery and artwork in Tamsin Saunders' charming London cottage. Tamsin designed all of the joinery to make use of each inch of area.
Christopher Horwood4/95
‘I based mostly the wooden panelling on a tiny outbuilding at a good friend’s home that I simply cherished,’ Tamsin says, gesturing to the partitions.

REBEKAH WESTOVER5/95
There was no expense spared in creating this couple’s dream nation kitchen in Provence, which nonetheless retains its authentic terracotta ground and thick ceiling beams. The kitchen is by DeVol, painted within the model’s ‘Pantry Blue’. The cooker is by Lacanche, and the sunshine fittings are additionally DeVol.

The vintage kitchen desk was purchased from the home’s earlier homeowners. The off-white partitions all through the home are all painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Slipper Satin’.
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The double-height Crittall home windows within the kitchen of this Belgravia townhouse set the tone. The marble-topped island is lined with Beata Heuman’s ‘Dodo Egg’ lanterns and Merci Maison’s ‘Ce’cile’ stools, the latter borrowing their Nineteen Forties prospers from Parisian designer Jean Royère
Mark Anthony Fox7/95
The bespoke kitchen cupboards on this eccentric pair of Georgian follies have been painted in Edward Bulmer's ‘French Blue’. ‘You want a pop of color to distinction the winter in England,’ causes Cruz Wyndham. The curtains are made out of classic William Morris curtains discovered at Petworth Home.
Will Slater8/95
A kitchen, eating area and utility room wanted to squeeze into the again portion of this historic Cornish cottage leaving little room for counter area. To handle this HÁM designed a prep table-cum-island for the center of the area. ‘Kate and I envisaged an previous dairy desk after we began to develop it. It wanted to be mild sufficient that you just get a way of the area by means of and round it however we added a little bit of folky element to the legs, and the brass trim on the highest which makes it really feel extra substantial than it’s.’

The addition of the prep desk made cabinet doorways an impossibility, so cabinets have been set again inside an ornamental body and fitted with pinch pleat curtains in ‘Little Stripe’ by Nicholas Herbert.

Dean Hearne9/95
In designer Meta Coleman's Utah home, the kitchen scheme epitomises the combo of European concepts that shapes her strategy, combining Alpine-style alder cupboards with Portuguese-inspired tiled partitions and a blue Gustavian/Biedermeier armoire designed by Meta. A Swedish pine trestle desk is teamed with Tyrolean oak chairs and a Nineteen Sixties pendant mild. Rattan bar stools from Maison Louis Drucker, a runner from Tat London and blinds in 'Drinks' by Josef Frank (whose 'Värklockor' wallpaper is seen within the corridor) improve the eclectic look.
Jake Curtis10/95
On this sensible west London home, inside designer Jessica Summer season had the concept of making a black kitchen, however moderately than portray it black, she used ebonised oak for the cupboard fronts. ‘What’s nice concerning the fronts is that not like painted ones, they don’t chip,’ explains Jessica. The kitchen partitions are painted in Farrow & Ball's ‘Cromarty’. Jessica has contrasted worktops made out of Arabescato marble with an island topped in oak.
Christopher Horwood11/95
It will be onerous to discover a home extra meticulously designed for the wants of its proprietor than this west London bolt-hole designed by Artichoke for a shopper who break up his time between the USA and London. The shopper, who had labored his entire life in tech, got here to Artichoke founder and artistic director Bruce Hodgson with a novel imaginative and prescient for his pied-à-terre, and the crew at Artichoke tailor-made the flat accordingly.

Bruce says that the kitchen was impressed by the US East Coast, the place the shopper has a farmhouse – “We needed to carry a level of Americana into it for him.” Reeded glass on the cupboards and a planked ceiling add visible curiosity to the clear, recent design of the area. Calacatta Oro marble was chosen for its impartial, pared-back color and pronounced veining which enhance the two-tone element of the painted furnishings and Nanz ironmongery.
DEAN HEARNE12/95
In Holly Howe's London home, the kitchen options waxed plaster partitions and floorboards in 'Tarragon Glory' by Dulux, setting off Howe cupboards and a William Tillman Regency-style mahogany eating desk, with Ernest Race's 'BA3' chairs.

Chris Horwood13/95
Yellow kitchens are all the trend in the intervening time, and this one from a Hampshire cottage embellished by Max Rollitt is a agency favorite. The joinery was designed by Artichoke Ltd and painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Sudbury Yellow’.
ELLEN CHRISTINA HANCOCK14/95
This Victorian home in London has been sensitively expanded with a stupendous new extension by Yard Architects, which designer Emma Shone-Sanders of Design & That has stylishly built-in with the remainder of the home. Emma selected an oak-stained kitchen by Roundhouse to knock again any overly modern lingerings within the extension. A Calacatta marble worktop and bamboo blinds add texture to the area.
Paul Massey15/95
On this north London villa by Brandon Schubert, Plain English items in Farrow & Ball's 'Deep Reddish Brown' and eating chairs in Gaston y Daniela's 'Peruyes' are set off by yellow-sprayed Anders Individual pendant lights over the island, the teak veneer splashback, partitions in Altfield grasscloth and curtains in 'Isabella' from Jasper by Michael S Smith.
Dean Hearne16/95
Leaving London for the Sussex countryside, Anna Phillips and her husband Jeff Kightly reworked this unremarkable Victorian cottage right into a characterful household dwelling, portray it in natural, earthy colors and including texture with salvaged items. The kitchen is especially charming. ‘We used normal Ikea carcasses after which Jeff made all of the doorways from previous scaffold boards,’ explains Anna. Jeff additionally usual offcuts from these into cabinets and plate and mug racks, which now play host to ceramics that Anna has collected over time.

Michael Sinclair17/95
When you ever end up questioning what to do with a kitchen that has 3.7-metre ceilings, the reply, it appears, is to create 4 finial-topped towers and place them within the corners of the room. These tall cupboards in Martin Brudnizki's Seventeenth-century Sussex flat disguise the fridge-freezer, the washer and dryer, and plenty of storage, and add a way of drama to a room that additionally contains a veined white marble splashback creeping excessive up an orange wall. That is set off by a set of pewter and porcelain plates, amongst them some as soon as owned by Nancy Lancaster, and balanced by an vintage tapestry on the adjoining wall.
Ursula Armstrong18/95
Jennifer Pelzig, the inside designer behind Parsnip Design, has made intelligent use of area as she reworked her compact 18th-century home within the nation into a stupendous and sensible backdrop for household life. The kitchen partitions are painted in Atelier Ellis' ‘Khadi’, a mild backdrop for the sensible deVOL kitchen. A reclaimed trainer’s desk repurposed with a marble prime makes for a sensible kitchen desk, whereas Nineteen Thirties bronzed and mirrored wall lights by Strand of London, discovered at Cooling & Cooling, lend patina to the area. The chairs and art work above the desk have been public sale finds.
Mark Roper19/95
Within the yellow kitchen of this Georgian home in Islington, a brush cabinet was eliminated to create space for the sink and open shelving items. Harry's spent many weekends trawling Kempton Marketplace for sensible items on this room, such because the kitchen desk and black-woven chairs, which took months to search out. The yellow kitchen is painted in shiny ‘Babouche’ by Farrow & Ball.
Christopher Horwood20/95
It was within the kitchen that a lot of the reorganisation was required on this Wiltshire home refreshed by Robert Kime's managing director. First, a big partition separating the kitchen and breakfast room was eliminated to create a extra inclusive area. Whereas the brand new limestone ground was being laid, a properly was found in entrance of the Aga and analysis revealed that there had as soon as been a brewhouse and pigsty right here. It was determined the properly could be underlit and lined with glass to make an fascinating function. A brand new kitchen design was devised by Orlando, that includes a central preparation desk, and the beams have been stripped to lighten the room.

Boz Gagovski21/95
Stella Weatherall's Notting Hill townhouse is full of sensible kitchen concepts, with sensible and trendy storage options like a plate rack and floating cabinets.
Christopher Horwood22/95
Conventional-style cupboards have been painted in ‘Dock Blue’ by Little Greene to match an electrical Aga from the eR7 sequence in our editor Hatta Byng's Yorkshire home. Delft tiles echo these on the chimney breast wall, with open cabinets above displaying a set of ceramics, together with items by Astier de Villatte and Burleigh. On the suitable hangs a collaged etching Whippet & Material, 2010, by Carolyn Horton.
Christopher Horwood23/95
This basement kitchen in an 18th-century Huguenot weavers' home in Spitalfields is simply heavenly, with its authentic flagstones and muted cabinetry. We notably love the usage of tongue and groove panelling as a splashback, which works properly with the normal aesthetic.
Dean Hearne24/95
Designer Carolina Irving's home on the Portuguese coast – a small whitewashed fisherman's home rising from the Melides rice fields – is designed to slot in with its environment. Within the rustic kitchen – a clap-board appendage to the home heated solely (even in winter) by a nook wooden range – marbleised tiles designed by Carolina create a blinding splashback.

Boz Gagovski25/95
“We based mostly the kitchen on the type of particulars you see in service areas in nation homes,” says Benedict Foley of the cleverly-designed flat in Hackney that he shares with Daniel Slowik. It’s “easy however properly drawn.” The shelving relies on the design of the bottom and toes of a provincial George III cupboard, the oven and hob was recycled from the earlier kitchen as they each work properly. The hanging hooks left are from Pinxton, the tole chandelier was as soon as John Fowler's, and the counter is reclaimed teak from Retrouvius. The counter curtains (and blind) are product of a digital print created by Viola Lanari.
Milo Brown26/95
Working with {custom} kitchen designers Apron Kitchens, Lonika Chande has crafted a intelligent little kitchen on this Nineteenth-century Chelsea home – utilizing her trademark flare for color and sample. The paint color is {custom} by Papers & Paints, and is the “excellent sludgy color to enrich the banquette.” The roman blind is made out of Flora Soames’s ‘Plain Stripe in Emerald’.
Dean Hearne27/95
The kitchen in Daisy Sims-Hilditch’s Notting Hill flat is Neptune's ‘Suffolk’ design, painted in Edward Bulmer's ‘Verdigris’ and that includes Beata Heuman's ‘Bow’ handles. The again wall has ground to ceiling cupboards to maximise area, with a ladder to assist attain the highest, and open shelving within the center to offer it a higher sense of openness.
Christopher Horwood28/95
Regardless of its compact area, this south London flat is each fairly and sensible because of the imaginative ornament of Carlos Garcia. Within the kitchen, the unique William Morris ‘Sussex’ rush armchairs and eating chairs are from Miles Griffiths Antiques. Models in ‘Chanterelle’ from Fenwick & Tilbrook are set off by a curtain in Ian Mankin’s small ‘Suffolk Examine’, Delft tiles by Douglas Watson Studio and bistro curtains in Aleta’s ‘Iridee’ blue voile.

Christopher Horwood29/95
The kitchen on this sensible Chelsea townhouse is from Blakes London, with ironmongery from Devol. The desk within the window is from Robert Kime.
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Bespoke oak cupboards, fronted with raffia certain in resin, are set off by the splashback in Pyrolave volcanic stone within the kitchen of this flat overlooking Kensington Gardens.
Simon Brown31/95
In a Notting Hill home designed by Studio Vero, three bar stools in leather-based and darkish bronze from Rose Uniacke stand on the custom-made kitchen island. The island narrows in direction of the French doorways, as do the partitions of the room. The present kitchen items have been painted in ‘Center Buff’ by Little Greene which offsets the colors of the Hanley Tube wall tiles by Balineum. The blue and white lino checkerboard ground is from Sinclair Until and the Roman blinds are in Open Sky from Woodnotes. A trio of Lucia Pendant lights by Hector Finch grasp over the island.
Dean Hearne32/95
Alexandra Tolstoy's Oxfordshire cottage is entered by means of the big kitchen, the place cupboards designed by Emma Burns occupy one wall, and an vintage farmhouse desk sits within the center. Emma Burns of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler introduced in joiner Chris Bell to create items an inch shallower than the present ones, which helps the kitchen really feel bigger.

Astrid Templier33/95
The kitchen is especially profitable in transporting you to the countryside in Pandora Taylor's Herne Hill home. The coherent rural aesthetic feels “juicy and all-encompassing,” with lush 'Beech Doc Inexperienced' wallpaper from Lewis and Wooden bringing the leafy backyard inside. That is mirrored within the Edward Bulmer ‘Invisible Inexperienced’ cabinetry and cottage-y furnishings, together with the classic dresser and ceramic wall lamps from The French Home. Pandora selected The Fabric Store's ‘Washed Linen' material for the curtains, which provides a tactile end and creates a cocooning heat within the night. She transformed a Nineteen Fifties hearth cowl right into a hood, which – together with the classic chairs and bespoke Pandora Taylor desk – creates a Victorian ‘scullery’ look.
Chris Horwood34/95
The kitchen is maybe essentially the most placing a part of this 18th-century staff' cottage in historic Greenwich by Anna Rhodes. An excellent mix of up to date colors and conventional shapes. The worktop is reclaimed iroko and the ground is a limestone from Flooring of Stone. ‘A shaker-style kitchen simply gave the impression to be essentially the most acceptable for the historical past of the constructing,' says Anna, who commissioned The Shaker Workshop. Within the nook of the kitchen, Anna has created additional seating and storage with a built-in bench. The bench cushions are upholstered in a easy ticking material from The Fabric Store.
Michael Sinclair35/95
Begun in 2019 and accomplished to price range in 2021 – and to Passivhaus requirements (it even exports surplus power in the summertime) – this intelligent, energy-efficient newbuild rises from fields on the foot of the Mendips in Somerset. The kitchen is strikingly modern with out being chilly or stark. Designed round a stainless-steel sink discovered on Ebay by the home’s proprietor, Orlando, the birch-ply items by CM Pretlove Cupboard Maker are completed with stainless-steel worktops.
Michael Sinclair36/95
In Catherine Chicester's Cotswold kitchen, the color on the partitions and cabinetry is a mixture of 4 shades from paint specialists Relics of Witney, which collaborated with Catherine on the gray used for the door and window body. A Rosi de Ruig lampshade echoes the veined worktop from Middlesex Marble.

Mark Anthony Fox37/95
Patrick Williams of Berdoulat was commissioned to plan the kitchen on this Bathtub challenge by Anna Haines and has used many items that he designed, together with the plate rack and a stand for the sink, plus a drawer unit in ‘Berdoulat Inexperienced’ – a paint color he created with Farrow & Ball. The vintage housekeeper’s cabinet was sourced from Adam Lloyd Interiors.
Salva Lopez38/95
With current chequerboard tiles, pale painted items and marble worktops, the kitchen on this Artwork Nouveau flat overlooking Barcelona has a captivating rustic really feel. The straw bag is used for procuring at native markets.
Michael Sinclair39/95
The unique checkerboard terracotta ground at textile designer Natasha James' Yorkshire home is totally lovely, and stated to have been impressed by Monet’s kitchen at Giverny. Plain English cupboards and preparation desk in ‘Pale Powder’ and ‘Hague Blue’, each Farrow & Ball, set it off completely . The blind in Natasha’s ‘Pushkar’ linen for Tasha Textiles is complemented by a trio of Scottish spongeware plates on the wall. On the mantelshelf, Claudia Rankin plates are displayed with Katrin Moye cups. A watercolour of apples by Emma Tennant hangs under them.
Mark Anthony Fox40/95
The cabinetry on this Herefordshire kitchen was made by a neighborhood joiner to proprietor Phoebe Clive’s design. It has an Japanese-European-style pediment and is painted in ‘Invisible Inexperienced’ from Edward Bulmer. The sink curtain is in an Indian block-print cotton bought at Tinsmiths, the store owned by Phoebe.

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The kitchen on this London residence refreshed by Laura Stephens wanted to really feel distinct from the opposite dwelling areas, so Laura positioned a daring blue lamp on the island as a ‘punctuation mark’ between the areas. The lampshade is bespoke with a Samuel and Sons bobble trim. The island was made bespoke to Laura's design, with ‘Gustavian impressed diamond motifs’ that echo the bed room wallpaper.
Dean Hearne42/95
The kitchen items on this home by Discipline Day Studio in Putney have been a bespoke design, with handles from Brascote & Co. The island was discovered at Pintor and customised with an additional shelf. The kitchen, previously a squat and gloomy area, was opened up with a raised ceiling and a glazed wall to permit mild to return in from the utility room. An previous refectory desk was deftly modified with additional shelving to make it work as an island with loads of storage.
James McDonald43/95
Reused Habitat cupboards in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Consuming Room Crimson’ distinction with the unique flagstones in Jack Laver Brister's Somerset townhouse, revealed when he chiselled away the Nineteen Nineties ceramic tiles masking them
Dean Hearne44/95
In our Meals Editor Blanche Vaughan's kitchen, the blue Aga was a remnant from the earlier homeowners. Above hangs Blanche’s assortment of vintage copper pans, some from Paris, some from Bailey's Dwelling Retailer in Ross-on-wye. Blanche’s kitchen is heat and unfussy. She isn’t the form of cook dinner who goes in for devices, her solely concession being the KitchenAid and her bean-to-cup espresso machine. Crucial a part of the room is her larder; ‘I like meals saved at larder moderately than fridge temperature and area to place the juices, jams and preserves that we make from the backyard.’

Paul Massey45/95
'For me, the kitchen is crucial room in the home,’ says inside designer Nicola Harding. On this riverside home, a spectrum of greens consists of Paint & Paper Library’s refined ‘Willow III’ on the partitions, Pure & Unique’s ‘Olive Drab’ on the Plain English cupboards and ‘Belgian Wilderness’ on the island. The Matthew Cox eating desk is teamed with ‘Knot’ chairs by Normann Copenhagen and illuminated within the evenings by a ‘Plaster Cone’ pendant from Rose Uniacke. Three summary work by Hormazd Narielwalla add eye-catching element above the mid-century sideboard discovered on Vinterior.
Paul Massey46/95
Plain English items painted in ‘Mash’ and an island in ‘Sauce’, with patterned Balineum tiles behind the cooker, create a contemporary country-house really feel on this home by Rita Konig. The area below the island is used for canine beds.
Mark Anthony Fox47/95
An vintage desk takes centre stage on this kitchen by Emma Burns, the place she has paired it with chairs from OKA and chosen ‘Studio Inexperienced’ a moody darkish inexperienced by Farrow & Ball for partitions and items, that are from Devol. ‘I needed this area to learn as a eating room moderately than a kitchen,’ she says. ‘Mottled’ tiles by Balineum.
DAVIDE LOVATTI48/95
One other Nation’s oak ‘Hardy’ chairs associate an previous farmhouse desk on this heavenly rustic kitchen in a Sixteenth-century Italian home, restored to a wonderful state by Maria Speake of Retrouvius.

Christopher Horwood49/95
Within the artist Natasha Mann's home, Farrow & Ball's ‘Palm Inexperienced’ compliments tiles from Milagros. The kitchen is by Pluck Kitchens. The copper sink is from The French Home and Mullan pendant lights.
Artwork: Henri De Waroquier © 2023 ADAGP, Paris/ ARS, New York50/95
To make the small kitchen in her small Parisian flat really feel extra spacious and shiny, dressmaker Morgane Sézalory enlisted the assistance of an artisan to make a {custom} mirrored wall, full with carved frames and cleverly designed ledges the place she shows her varied collections. The stacked ceramic espresso cups are from Les Composantes, the Braque exhibition poster is classic, the portray is by Henry de Waroquier, and the range is Lacanche.
Mark Fox51/95
A portrait by Chica Seal dominates the far wall past the refectory desk with its hand-painted ornament by Rosie Tatham within the open-plan kitchen and eating space in Katie Glaister's London home. The oak and bronze island is a bespoke design by Ok&H Design, and its worktop is by Pyrolave, made out of Volvic lava which is enamelled to supply a beautiful reflection. The pendant lights have been handmade in London by Michael Ruh.
Mark Fox52/95
In one other a part of the kitchen in the identical London home, the pantry doorways function a reeded design with vintage brass trim. One other reeded cupboard above the worktop homes the extractor and offers storage for roasting dishes and chopping boards.

Owen Gale53/95
The kitchen is Alix Reynis' favorite room in her Parisian home. The cement ground has been sealed with varnish. The small desk and chairs got to Alix by her grandparents, whose fashion she credit for forming her personal. A big Medici urn which Alix present in a brocante within the north of France.
Chris Horwood54/95
On the ground oak finger parquet flooring, provides an genuine natural distinction to the opposite artifical supplies within the kitchen of James Shaw's Shoreditch home.
Joachim Wichmann55/95
Arabescato marble from Fontanili Marble UK is plated on the alcove wall and counter tops within the kitchen of this Victorian terrace designed by Pernille Lind.
Daniel Schäfer56/95
The kitchen ground on this French nation manor is tiled in reclaimed 18th century tomettes, however the wall tiles are fashionable and from Topps Tiles within the UK, chosen for his or her colors that are typical of the area. The door subsequent to the sink leads into the again backyard.

Rupert Peace57/95
Within the kitchen of this Notting Hill home, proprietor Alice Crawley has chosen a stunning, female scheme of pink and inexperienced.
Michael Sinclair58/95
Designed by Patrick Williams of Berdoulat, this room in a sprawling English nation manor offers simply accessible storage in addition to housing the fridge – let's name it a half kitchen. The half-glazed doorways in Papers and Paints’ ‘H2106’ in a gloss end lead into the kitchen, the place the partitions are lined in white ‘Concord Discipline’ tiles from Francis Ceramics. The lantern under the skylight as soon as hung within the stables at Buckingham Palace.
Paul Massey59/95
Within the kitchen of Marie-Louis Sjögren's historic home on the Stockholm archipelago, an vintage Swedish bockbord desk from Svenska Rum in Stockholm stands on a classic Swedish rug within the kitchen, which was designed by Marie-Louise and made out of Öland limestone.
Mark Fox60/95
In his Artwork Deco flat in Hackney, Alfred Bramsen designed and painted the kitchen cupboards himself, impressed by the colorful doorknobs from Nina Nørgaard. The kettle and toaster are from Hay and the black pot and yellow espresso pot are from Labour & Wait.

Paul Massey61/95
Within the kitchen of an earl's Nineteenth-century nation home, ‘Actual Shaker’ cupboards from DeVol, painted in ‘Clerkenwell Blue’, and a terrazzotopped island in ‘Printer’s Black’ choose up on the colors in Christabel Blackburn’s portray Hay Barn. The ‘Hector Bibendum’ pendant lights are by Unique BTC.
Owen Gale62/95
The kitchen in a jewelry designer's playful Victorian home is a kaleidoscopic room that greatest exhibits the Spanish influences in the home. “It’s the room we knew we’d spend most time in,” says Sandra, “so we spent the longest ensuring we received the design proper”. This concerned staying up till 2am the evening earlier than the tiles have been put up to make sure the sample was appropriate for the combo of inexperienced, yellow and pale pink zellige tiles. The cupboard doorways are painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Calke Inexperienced’, Paint & Paper Library’s ‘Geisha’ and ‘Rowan Berry’ from Sanderson, whereas the partitions are an archive Farrow & Ball paint known as ‘Orangery’.
Simon Bergström63/95
The kitchen was the most important challenge when Sebastian Bergström first moved into his tiny flat in Stockholm. “I usually say that it’s a working kitchen – each instrument or no matter I want to make use of is only a one step away and I really like that.”
James McDonald64/95
The kitchen in a Kensington home by Kate Guinness, designed and made in collaboration with 202 Design, opens into the conservatory. Partitions in ‘Plaster V’ distinction with cupboards in ‘Kigali’, each shades from Paint & Paper Library. The rug is from Tate & Darby.

Christopher Horwood65/95
The kitchen in a former tannery-turned-stylish flat close to London Bridge is painted in a bespoke shade of olive inexperienced. The pared-back panelling was designed to mix in with the commercial setting of the residence.
Sarah Griggs66/95
At a Chelsea home by Studio Duggan, the kitchen is directly calm and characterful. Zellige tiles on the chimney breast dazzle within the light-filled area. A mirror from Balineum provides a contact of recent color.
Michael Sinclair67/95
A kitchen in a Cotswolds dwelling restored by Catherine Chichester: cabinets drawn up by the artist John Simpson are teamed with an island designed with architect Stef Claes and topped with ‘Radianz’ quartz from Granite Planet. A wall unit from Vinterior shows ceramics by Robin Walden. The tumbled limestone ground is from Beswick Stone.
Owen Gale68/95
The house of photographer Laura Muthesius and her spouse, stylist Nora Eisermann, a former schoolhouse. The kitchen was designed utilizing many parts from deVOL, together with their ‘Actual Shaker’ cupboard vary and ‘Crackle’ metro tiles. A Bertazzoni cooker has delight of place. The area has an oak parquet ground from Flooring of Stone.

Dean Hearne69/95
At Nicola Mardas's home in Deal, the kitchen was designed by the architectural studio Camu & Morrison, and Nicola selected the colors. The cupboards are painted in Little Greene's ‘Woodland’, whereas the partitions are in Farrow & Ball's ‘Middleton Pink’.
Line Klein70/95
With its crimson door and properly harmonised curation of objects, the doorway and kitchen to Josephine Akvama Hoffmeyer's Copenhagen flat provide a heat welcome: Home of Finn Juhl chairs; Knoll Saarinen Tulip desk; silver pendant mild by Flos; handcrafted faucet by TONI; glazed lava stone prime, ‘Below My Pores and skin’ wall paint and flooring by File Below Pop.
Mark Anthony Fox71/95
At Charlotte Boundy's Victorian London terrace, The British Customary kitchen is painted in two tones – Edward Bulmer’s ‘Brunswick Inexperienced’ and ‘Lilac Pink’, which is certainly one of Charlotte’s favorite pinks.
Paul Massey72/95
With a unprecedented, enigmatic gothic exterior to stay as much as, the inside of this north London home required particular remedy. The homeowners known as in visionary design studio Maddux Artistic, the winners of our 2022 Inside Designer of the Yr award. Within the kitchen, a rug taken from a bigger piece of William Morris carpet picks up on the DeVol cupboards in a {custom} blue.

Paul Massey73/95
Along with her lampshade-making enterprise beginning to take over her west London household dwelling, Rosi de Ruig moved operations to a close-by studio and took the prospect to offer the Victorian home a vibrant new look. Rosi purchased the kitchen cupboards from Ikea and had new fronts made for them, including brass handles from Peter Jones. Vibrant ‘Parrots Plume’ gloss from Dulux on the cabinets and island, and the door to the newly created larder, units off the crocheted ‘Easy Shade 03’ pendant in lava from Naomi Paul above the island. The ‘Flora’ metallic wall lamps are from Maisons du Monde.
Christopher Horwood74/95
Pale blue and brown are a extremely covetable color mixture in Lucy Williams' London home. The bespoke kitchen was made by Browson Design and is painted in Paper and Paints Sky Blue with Beata Heuman {hardware}. The massive brass handles have been discovered by Lucy at Ardingly Market, while the brown marble counter tops have been sourced from Lapicida. Over head, Fritz Fryer pendants grasp and plaster lights by Alexandra Robinson line the again wall.
Alexander James75/95
This showstopper of a kitchen belongs to an equally spectacular home, a former Victorian civic constructing reworked right into a household dwelling by inside designer John McCall. A tender terracotta wash on the partitions by ornamental paint artist Hughie Turner brings out the specifically combined inexperienced and darkish crimson on the cupboards. Above the oak desk, which was made by I & JL Brown, is an oak-leaf chandelier from Richard Taylor Designs. The eating chairs are lined in Bennison Materials’ ‘Frondage’ and the Edwardian wingback chair is upholstered in Claremont’s ‘Kilim Stripe’ material.
Michael Sinclair76/95
Pandora Taylor designed the desk in her kitchen herself, surrounding it with classic chairs. The partitions are painted in Farrow & Ball's Palma Grey. An art work by Thierry Genay hangs on the chimneybreast above the cooker, framed in Perspex to keep away from harm.

Chris Horwood77/95
Sophie Warburton, founding father of Host Dwelling, saved the present kitchen in her London home, repainting the items from a pillar field crimson to the calm inexperienced of Benjamin Moore's ‘Guacamole’. The tiles are zellige tiles in a colourway known as ‘Pastel Sand’. A pop of color comes from a part of Sophie's glassware and ceramics assortment, with all of the glasses from Host and mugs from Mud Australia.
Paul Massey78/95
When designing the kitchen for novelist Andrew O'Hagan, Jane Ormsby Gore opted for floorboards painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Rectory Crimson’ with a impartial tone on the cupboards above.
Maree Homer79/95
A Nineteenth-century former whaler’s cottage in North Sydney has been reworked by Australian inside designer Lisa Burdus right into a vibrant, snug dwelling with a nod to traditional English nation fashion. The pink paint from the sitting room continues on the panelling and wall cabinets within the kitchen, a part of the identical open-plan area, whereas an island painted in Dulux’s ‘Inexperienced Gables’ provides a placing distinction. Emac and Lawton’s ‘Chelsea’ desk lamp is paired with a pleated inexperienced silk shade from Samarkand Design.
Paul Massey80/95
We love the cane-fronted items in Octavia Dickinson's London home, designed by Octavia herself and made by Alfred Newall at The London Workshop. The items are painted in Little Greene’s ‘Stone-Mid-Heat’.

Owen Gale81/95
Inside designer Angelica Squire's Victorian terraced home in London is a youthful, exuberant area that mixes sensible artworks and materials with intelligent classic finds and joyful colors. The partitions within the kitchen are painted in Farrow & Ball's 'Setting Plaster', and the cupboards in 'Choice Crimson'. The blinds are in Man Goodfellow's 'Pomegranate Print' material, whereas cafe blinds on the underside half of the home windows permit for privateness whereas nonetheless letting within the mild.
Lucas Allen82/95
On this Seventeenth-century home by Rose Uniacke, the country picket desk is complemented by rush-seated oak chairs designed by the Arts and Crafts furnishings maker William Birch. Copper pans are suspended from a metallic oval hanging rack overhead. Above the sink to the suitable of the Aga, a beforehand enclosed window has been restored.
Alexander James83/95
The white kitchen of this Georgian townhouse in Ludlow has been embellished with a tender color palette and chic furnishings, making a recent nation scheme. Giant cupboards line the width of the area, complemented by a traditional white Aga and blue tiling.
Paul Massey84/95
Maria Speake of Retrouvius salvaged this Victorian shelving from the Patent Workplace and has used it to deal with glassware and cookery books right here in a shopper's Chiltern farmhouse. This proves than canny storage doesn't essentially must be made-to-measure to be match for goal. This double-sided unit is ideal with glassware because it doesn’t block the sunshine. On this kitchen, the stylishly utilitarian scheme is completed with an eclectic combine of sunshine fittings and a big butler sink.

85/95
On this London flat designed by Max Rollitt, there may be an vintage shelf above the kitchen sink. This holds a set of pottery and glassware. The wealthy crimson cabinetry under is topped with pale carrera marble.
Yuki Sugiura86/95
The designer Matilda Goad has spent the final two years turning a typical London home in to an imaginative, fashionable dwelling full of intelligent and sudden concepts. Within the kitchen, the cabinet doorways, painted in ‘Sage Inexperienced’ from Little Greene, are fitted with a mixture of classic brass handles, some from an previous ship. The wall surrounding the cooker is picked out in crimson and white checkerboard tiles – ‘merely purchase the most affordable tiles you’ll be able to and alternate the colors’ – a homage to the Moroccan and southern European kitchens that have been additionally the affect for the ‘uncooked plaster’ partitions (‘really a beautiful lime wash paint from an organization by Bauwerk’).
Sharyn Cairns87/95
Within the heat, orange kitchen of Ben Pentreath's Georgian Parsonage the Aga dates again to the Sixties. Ben added the picket ground, painted in Farrow & Ball's 'Hardwick White', and located the glazed wall cabinet in a junk store. The kitchen ground wanted changing when he moved in. 'As there was a patch of previous stone flagging, I had hoped there could be extra beneath the linoleum,' Ben says. 'In fact, there wasn't, so we merely glued picket boards on prime of the present ground and painted them dove gray'.
Michael Sinclair88/95
The designer Jane Gowers found her London home by probability, however its restoration and ornament have been the results of good judgement and a sympathetic strategy. The kitchen's conventional cream items have been made by Woodstock Furnishings, with doorways giving entry to the backyard terrace.

Paul Massey89/95
A dresser by Plain English, painted within the firm’s ‘Military Camp’ inexperienced, holds a sink from Howe paired with brass faucets from Barber Wilsons & Co within the kitchen-cum-dining room of Rita Konig's farmhouse. Rita’s assortment of vintage glassware is displayed on the highest shelf.
Davide Lovatti90/95
Identified for his or her restoration of historic buildings in Scotland, conservation architects Nick Groves-Raines and Kristin Hannesdottir relished the problem of saving Lamb's Home in Leith, the place they now stay and work.The picket kitchen with authentic beams is embellished within the conventional nation fashion.
Rachel Whiting91/95
'I haven't used wall cabinets as a result of I didn't need the kitchen to learn like a standard kitchen or look too boxy,' explains Beata Heuman, the inside desginer behind this vibrant dwelling in London. The color palette, which features a Swedish inexperienced marble worktop and a bespoke copper cooker hood and island by Premier Constructing & Design, enhances the backyard past. It’ll purchase a greenish patina over time.
Paul Massey92/95
This Arts & Crafts home was given a brand new lease of life by Ben Pentreath. Ben designed the cupboards, which have been made by Symm and painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Hague Blue’.

Andrew Montgomery93/95
Resisting the concept of shifting or increasing into the basement, the homeowners of this London home gave architect Maria Speake the go-ahead to make some structural adjustments to offer their household and enterprise the area wanted. The Plain English kitchen, with its cream Aga, was put in 12 years in the past. Maria had it repainted in an Emery & Cie inexperienced to refresh the room.
Simon Brown94/95
This jaunty kitchen adorning concept comes from Joanna Wooden in a Cotswold home she labored on. Vintage leaf plates are displayed on the tall chimneybreast above the Aga. The ‘Vertigo’ pendant mild was designed by Constance Guisset for Petite Friture.
Paul Massey95/95
Farrow & Ball's ‘Setting Plaster’ was used on the partitions within the kitchen of this 18th-century home in Bathtub. Classic wall lights from Felix Lighting Specialists are positioned above the Plain English kitchen items, that are painted in Pure & Unique ‘Summerset Mauve’; the island is in ‘Put up Trendy Mauve’. Pendant mild shades salvaged from a manufacturing unit in Hungary grasp over the island. They’re bought by Skinflint, which finds, restores and repairs mid-century industrial and ornamental lighting from throughout Europe. The ‘Japanese Bloc Manufacturing facility Shade’ measures 51 x 31cm diameter and prices £330.

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