Courtrai Road

Collaborating with long term clients and friends of Constructive, we were invited to design the kitchen in the newly extended ground floor of their 1930’s home in South London. It’s lovely to see our work in this space now that it’s been fully lived in - these photographs were taken two years after we completed our installation - and the joinery has had a chance to root itself into the fabric of their home.

Our role

Design detail, build

Photos

Agnese Sanvito

Open shelving and blue-grey cupboards beside a tall fridge housing, seen across the dark worktop.

Kitchen island with dark granite worktop and stools, blue-grey wall cabinets and copper-lined pendants.

The open-plan kitchen is framed at one end by a wall of crittall style windows and doors to the garden. We discussed at length the need to make the kitchen warm and cosy against the wide open space of a new extension. It also had to sit comfortably alongside the clients Mid Century freestanding furniture.

View into the open-plan kitchen and dining area, with crittall style doors to the garden.

Kitchen island and range cooker beneath blue-grey wall cabinets, rooflights above.

The change in level between the kitchen and living room gave us the opportunity to design some full width oak steps to add some nice detailing to the units on either side and also provide a perfect spot to sit with a cup of tea and look out to the garden.

Blue-grey base units with aluminium ring handles stepping up alongside full width oak steps.

Close-up of a blue-grey cupboard notched around the oak steps to the living room.

Bottom drawer pulled open, its blue-grey front cut to follow the oak step.

Birch plywood shelving above blue-grey cupboards, filled with books, glassware and plants.

We used oak faced birch plywood and our tried and tested aluminium ring handles to break up front elevations. The clients chose a honed leather finished granite for the worktops which we had successfully used for them on a previous project.

Close-up of an oak faced drawer front beside a blue-grey door under the granite worktop.

Close-up of an aluminium ring handle on a blue-grey door below the honed granite worktop.

Blue-grey tall cupboards with bar handles housing a stainless steel fridge freezer.

Open-plan kitchen with oak faced island, blue-grey cabinets and a doorway through to the living room.

Dining table and bench beside the fridge housing, with crittall style windows to the garden.

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