The Farmhouse.

Designed around two fixed points: the range and the sink. A mantel rather than a hood, a fireclay sink, plain recessed panels, cup handles and turned knobs, and joinery scribed to a floor that moves..

Designed around two fixed points: the range and the sink. A mantel rather than a hood, a fireclay sink, plain recessed panels, cup handles and turned knobs, and joinery scribed to a floor that moves.

How it is built

The same construction, whichever range

The range decides the door and the ornament. Everything behind it is built the same way, in the same building, by the same nine people — and it is built that way whether the kitchen is going to Suffolk or to Connecticut.

What it costs, and why → How a commission runs → How it reaches you →

Specification

Setting out	Drawn in CAD, then again at full size as a rod pinned above the bench. Machining is taken from the rod, not the screen.
Carcass	18mm birch-faced plywood (a shade under 3/4 inch), glued and screwed, 9mm backs (just under 3/8 inch) housed in rather than pinned on. Adjustable feet throughout.
Face frames	Solid timber, mortise and tenon, with scribed filler stiles where the joinery meets the building.
Drawer boxes	Solid European oak, 16mm (just over 5/8 inch) sides, through-dovetailed front and back by hand, waxed.
Runners	Full-extension soft-close, rated to 90lb.
Painted work	Four coats, brushed by hand in our own finishing room, with the final coat cut in on site after installation.
Installation	By the people who made it. Nothing is subcontracted and nothing arrives flat-packed.

The painted mantel built around the range, with cabinets either side of it

A painted island with stools drawn up to the end of it, the range wall behind — The island, and where people sit

Open shelving turning the corner above the run, with china and jars on it — Open shelving to the corner

The mantel from the side, showing how it stands off the wall — The mantel, from the side

The Farmhouse seen from the doorway, a painted mantel over the range and a flagstone floor running the length of the room — The Farmhouse

A molded bracket carrying the plate shelf, with jugs ranged along the top — The mantel, and the plate shelf

A walkthrough of The Farmhouse

Not the right one if you want a minimal kitchen. This one is deliberately domestic.

A V-grooved painted door with a cup pull, under a marble top against brick

The room from the corner, blue-gray painted cabinets with an apron-front sink and the range in its mantel beyond

An apron-front sink set into the run under the window

Made in this range

A kitchen we have built to this door

Suffolk, England · The FarmhouseFarmhouse KitchenA white hand-painted in-frame (inset, in American terms) kitchen in a Suffolk farmhouse, built around a range and a fireclay sink, with black granite and a riven slate floor.See the project →

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The other ranges

If this is not the one

The Suffolk — hand-painted in-frame English kitchen, built in Suffolk and installed in the United States

Hand-painted in-frameThe SuffolkA flat center panel, a plain stile and rail, a solid timber face frame, and paint.See the range →

The Essex — molded in-frame English kitchen with a hand-carved chimneypiece over the range

Molded in-frameThe EssexThe most decorated of the seven.See the range →

The Scandi — handleless character oak kitchen with matte black cabinetry, made in Suffolk

Handleless oak, solid timberThe ScandiFlat, finger-jointed fronts in character oak.See the range →

All seven ranges →

Every kitchen shown here is one we have made. The images are visualizations rather than photographs of our clients’ houses. They are built from our own workshop drawings and our own photographs of the work on site, and finished with AI, because our clients ask that their houses are not photographed or published. More on that.

Tell us about the room.

Where the house is, roughly when you would like to be cooking in it, and what you have in mind. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.

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