Natural Oak Kitchen Cabinets and a Skylight Are the Stars of This Kitchen Renovation

The earlier than: With low ceilings and pale yellow, Shaker-style cupboards, the unique kitchen was not meant for residing. The tight, rectangular room was as soon as a service quarter, so its format was inefficient for contemporary use.

The inspiration: “The shoppers had been very eager that it’s fairly timeless, fairly minimal, however fairly basic, as effectively,” George recollects. “They beloved the concept of the pure earthiness of the timber, however they didn’t need one thing that felt like a fad or kind of funky, so lots of the design is sort of ageless.”

Sq. footage: 35 sq. meters (roughly 377 sq. toes)

Funds: “For a typical extension like this, you’d be roughly £3,000 per sq. meter excluding taxes,” George estimates. That’s about $359 per sq. foot.

Most important components:

Cupboard Fronts, Wall Cladding, Shelving, and Benches: Customized Pure Oak by joiner Jai Brodie. “We wished to maintain the palette actually easy,” says George. “Oak was the primary materials used for the kitchen. The important thing factor was we labored with a joiner that we knew, who’s a good friend of the corporate and that we’d labored with earlier than. He’s an actual craftsman and specialist.”

Flooring: Wooden and Past Engineered Pure Oak Boards. “The consumer was actually nervous about overusing oak, in order that was most likely the hardest choice to make—having the flooring and the joinery all the identical—however we had been fairly satisfied it will work,” George remembers.

Desk and Chairs: Consumer’s Personal

Counter tops and Backsplash: Silestone.“It’s simply bought a pleasant, delicate texture, however it’s not too loud. It blends into the background,” George illustrates.

Lighting: New Works Materials Pendant in Mild Gray Concrete, Tom Dixon Growth Wall Mild in Black, and Astro Lighting Eclipse Spherical LED Sconce

Wall paint: Dulux Pure Good White

Faucet: Grohe Minta Single-Deal with Pull-Down Kitchen Faucet in SuperSteel

Oven: Bosch