Kitchen
Blind for front room study kitchen
Extractor fan
Include secret drawers and organisers Ensuring sufficient storage is a primary kitchen design consideration, but being able to organise your storage is also important for making the space easier, more efficient and safer to use. There are many clever drawer and cabinet inserts to help with this. Secret drawers are slimline designs that fit inside and at the top of deeper drawers, as shown here. They can also be fitted with handy inserts, such as cutlery holders, spice or knife racks, or even kitchen foil and clingfilm holders. Other drawer inserts designed to help you stay organised include drawer mats or plate holders – both of which stop your plates sliding about when you open the drawer. As they sit just beneath your worktop, these drawers provide easy access to items during cooking.
Worktop
Space out The monochrome scheme in this kitchen has been planned out to play with shape and form. The tall white cabinets match the rest of the walls perfectly, and are almost invisible at first glance. The eye is immediately drawn to the black base units, which help to keep the kitchen grounded. At the same time, the white units merge into the background and the room appears more spacious.
Breakfast stations hidden in a pantry cupboard are becoming increasingly popular. But what if you don’t have a bespoke pantry cupboard? This clever idea could give you a solution without having to redesign your whole kitchen. Here, a cabinet has been built with a cantilevered door at the bottom. The door can be lifted up to reveal a row of small appliances, and closed to hide them when not in use.
It was Clare’s idea to fit these tall kitchen units behind the living room sofa, and make a feature of them by painting the cabinets, the wall behind and the hall door an inky blue.
a simple, uncluttered look,” says Jessica, “so we tried to think of ways to introduce pattern in more subtle ways.” On the splashback, for example, she chose plain white tiles, but laid them in a basketweave pattern.
Extractor hidden in cupboard, concealed by narrow shelves for spices
I interesting angle for a pullout larder
Hidden utility-cloakroom
The full-height door on the right of the cabinets looks like a tall unit, but is in fact a door to the room behind.
Door/Cupboard; The full-height door on the right of the cabinets looks like a tall unit, but is in fact a door to the room behind.
Extra drawers; The new kitchen is a simple design with painted MDF doors, but Eva used a clever trick to increase storage. “We chose to make the worktop 1m high instead of 90cm,” she says. “This allowed us to fit slim drawers along the top. It’s a sneaky way of getting more from the kitchen, and it works well here, as my friend is quite tall.”
Continuous worktop that leads into a bench seat
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