Category: before & afters

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After

This semi detached family home had a dated existing kitchen at the back of the house, leaving an isolated, poorly lit and overly formal separate dining room in the centre of the house. The owner knocked through and opened the plan up (this has already been carried out in the before photo), then we put the kitchen more in the heart of the home as it were, also enabling a more free flowing and family friendly living and dining space right next to the garden.

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This bungalow was in need of updating. It is a modern kind of build, and anything in a historical style would have seemed a bit pastiche in this context. Luckily the owners have an eye for design. We employed a mid century modern ish aesthetic with expressed plywood end grain, and the handles created from cut outs in the plywood frames. Well arguably midcentury is historical… but you know what I mean.

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This was a mediocre looking white shaker kitchen that came with the house. The visible boiler on the wall, the freestanding washing machine and the way the floor finish changed halfway through the kitchen just didn’t really scream good design. There was also some weird boxing on the left hand side out of shot due to the staircase. We unified the floor finish, the owner selected a material pallete of oak and dark grey, and I designed the cabinetry to neaten things up – integrated washing machine, boiler enclosure, and took the cabinets all the way to the ceiling to hide the stair boxing on the left, and created some tapered open shelving on the right hand side to make use of the dead space by the window. On the other side of the room there was an alcove which I fitted out to make it more a part of the kitchen.

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After

The existing floorplan had an L shape kitchen with a split level. We levelled the floor and created a straight run along the wall rather than having a peninsula breaking up the space. This suited the intended use which is occasionally to open the house up to the public to display and sell antiques and vintage items. In keeping with this, I made the doors out of some reclaimed church doors sourced from Frome reclamation, and repurposed the various bits of old ironmongery for the handles.