Painted Kitchen & Utility
A soft off-white painted in-frame kitchen in a house with leaded steel casements and limestone floors, and behind it a utility room with a whole wall of slatted doors.
The work
Painted in-frame throughout in a soft off-white close to Farrow & Ball’s Cornforth White, with plain recessed panels and a pale solid countertop. The tall units run to the cornice and take the ovens in a stack, with the cooktop on the return under a leaded steel casement. The room is deliberately quiet. In a house that already has leaded windows, stone floors and molded plasterwork, a kitchen that competes with any of it looks like a showroom that has been dropped in.
The utility room is the better room
A full wall of painted tall cupboards with slatted doors, floor to ceiling, over black granite; two washers and a dryer set into the run; a sink under the window; and a line of caged glass pendants along the length of it. Slatted doors are there for a reason rather than a look — a cupboard holding damp coats, boots, laundry or a boiler needs to breathe, and a slatted door lets it without an ugly grille cut into a panel.
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.
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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. |
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| 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. |
Every kitchen on this site 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. None of it is stock imagery and none of it is somebody else’s work. Drawings, samples and references for completed commissions we will show you in person — visits to the Mickfield workshop are by appointment.
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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