SMART GREY KITCHEN DESIGN FOR COOK IN NURSLING
This smart grey kitchen was designed for a keen cook. Our clients from Nursling fell in love with the new Painted Mackintosh Savoy doors. So they chose a grey tonal colour scheme for their new kitchen in Nursling. The Mackintosh Light Grey & Anthracite gave the greatest contrast without going so bright as white and with minimal pigment in the greys. To complement the cabinets the clients were very careful with their choice of worktops. They visited the Hook warehouse owned by Silestone to ensure they found the perfect choice: Silestone Desert Silver in 20mm. At its base, the worktop is a lovely smooth grey which sits between the two tones of the painted units. It also has a fantastic White Vein running all the way through each slab.
One of the Clients is a caterer so she needed machines that would help her workflow when she was cooking large meals for personal dinner parties. For that reason, there is a separate fridge and separate freezer on the tall run, along with 2x Pyrolitic slide & hide ovens with a slide and hide Fullsteam oven in the centre. All appliances are by Neff including the Wide Flex induction hob with a down-draft extractor.
This was not a typical kitchen installation to project manage. We organised the removal of some sliding doors and the walls that now make up the utility room which we reorganised including blocking in an outside door and the decoration for this room. The door was also blocked in to be able to give the clients the grand kitchen island they wanted whilst still allowing them to use their sunroom as a sunroom. Instead, the unused front porch area with a large bay window could be repurposed for a circular table. The new dining space can now make full use of the window and the kitchen was designed so the pillar is used as a feature to allow a ‘setting out’ drawer stack on the side of the new dining table.
The clients are delighted with their new smart, tonal grey kitchen.
Photos by Lia Vittone