OAK SIMPLICITY
Beauty waiting to be discovered
This kitchen is at the back of a semi-detached house in west London and has French doors that open onto a balcony with views of a courtyard garden below. Its owners, a young professional couple with two young children and a keen interest in art, were working with an interior designer to refurbish the whole house when the husband visited the Sola showroom in passing and liked what he saw.
The Brief
The couple wanted the new kitchen to have a Mediterranean look, with plenty of natural materials, particularly antique oak, and concrete floors. The cabinetry needed to look like furniture and crucially, they wanted to be able to hide everything away, so it would be clean and uncluttered, with no indication that a kitchen lay behind the cabinet doors.
The designer's solution combines Sola Kitchens' 20mm Shaker cabinetry with its 20mm handled Fjord range for the first time, and has been used to create a panelled screen with bifold pocket doors in the middle of the wall run that open up to reveal the sink and a single floating shelf.
The impressive stone worktop was sourced by the owners themselves, and in order for the island to be stable and strong enough to bear its weight, the carcasses have been reinforced with solid, weight-filled bases instead of legs, and are secured to the floor. The stone worktop used on the wall run is 20mm in depth and aligns with the horizontals of the fridge and the freezer on the right-hand side of the sink and the double-door pantry on the left.
Special Features
A cut above the rest: templating is an art that is taken to the extreme by the Sola Kitchens team; here, openings for the knobs of the downdraft Bora professional hob and the hob itself, and levels to fit the under-counter cabinet door pulls have all been meticulously measured before being cut.
Nest of drawers: to maintain the symmetry of the kitchen without losing any storage capacity, three drawers within drawers are hidden behind a single cabinet panel.
Materials & Finishes
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2.- Belgian Bluestone
- Antique Stained Oak
The process
