When a kitchen designer has to design her OWN kitchen, how does she decide from all the wonderful options available? ……. Welcoming and efficient, this sunlight-filled kitchen aesthetic balances charcoal, champagne and walnut with a refined ease. The kitchen’s walnut veneer features pay homage to the mid-century modern aesthetic of the home’s architecture.
As featured in Your Home & Garden, Aug 2017. And Homes to Love online mag “Real Kitchens” feature. Photographer: Vanessa Lewis
The brief included facilitating family connection and easy conversations, with the wrap-around island seating creating engagement with the cook. Warm afternoon sun streams across the western deck beside for a cosy winter setting.
The integrated dishwasher on the island end is positioned to effortlessly work with cutlery and crockery drawers adjacent - all specifically ordered and organised to facilitate easy unloading in record time. Curved edges to the handles are comfortable to work around and minimise finger marking on the door surface.
Touches of gold (real gold-leaf in the pendant light inner!) and reflective lacquered doors add a touch of Hollywood/Mad Men glamour desired. High windows opposite draw in welcoming golden sunrise warmth deep into the space on a winters morning, while the deep overhangs block that same sun in summer. Toni designed and calculated the geometries to attune with NZ Passive Solar sun charts.
A custom made knife block makes for easy off-the-bench storage and safe retrieval.
Beautifully elegant and highly ergonomic, the Hansgrohe pullout spray mixer tap with Insinkerator’s boiling and cold water tap beside, provide flexible usage for multiple cooks.
Toekick drawers afford extra storage space otherwise wasted. Every centimeter considered!
A roller shutter door from Sage Doors provides the perfect solution to housing a few small appliances, finished in a charcoal gloss lacquer to maintain the integrity of the continuous forms.
