Kitchen Design Gallery

Welcome to our kitchen design gallery. It includes painted kitchens and timber kitchens ... and I will add more pictures, as I get round to taking the photographs. Each section describes one kitchen, its design brief and how the design evolved. You will hopefully be able to find kitchen design ideas, in these case studies, and also tips for overcoming various - uhmm - challenges ... in your own kitchen designs.

To see more of each kitchen, please click on either the thumbnail picture or the title. Click on further thumbnails to start a slide show of the pictures and use the pause button if you want to look at any one picture in more detail.

I hope you enjoy browsing
Marion

Grand Painted Kitchen

This is a family home in London, owned by a builder and his wife. That explains the magnificent vaulted glass roof to the extension but it probably also explains why the kitchen was a tad behind schedule! After all, I haven't yet got round to re-furbishing my own kitchen (I have done the bathroom, though!). The new roof to the kitchen extension makes this a lovely bright room and to stop it ever feeling cold, there is underfloor heating beneath the beautiful stone floor tiles.

Contemporary Painted Kitchen

This was an oblong kitchen with units around all sides and the table in the centre was quite cramped. The clients wanted more space and they wanted a more contemporary look for the kitchen. The new plan moves all the working areas of the kitchen to one end of the room, leaving the other end just for the table.

Dovecote

This tiny little kitchen is in an unusual house converted from a dovecote and the property is crammed with old beams and gothic features. It seemed only right that the kitchen should reflect that and a few gothic features have been included here too (have a look at the larder doors and the canopy).

Derbyshire Cottage

This cottage is perched on a hillside near to Matlock in Derbyshire and the owners were having an extension built to increase the size of their tiny kitchen. It was a difficult situation for the builders who thought, at one time, that they would have to use a crane to lift their building materials over the roof. Luckily it didn't come to that.

Traditional Painted Kitchen

There were several "must haves" with this kitchen. It had to be painted cream, it had to have a large mantel, with working cupboards, over the Lacanche range cooker and it had to have a large island with a sink in it. The owners of this large square kitchen had lived for years with the sink on one side of the room and the cooker on the other (with a large table in between).

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