This is the kitchen that gave the studio its name. A working country kitchen in the heart of Warwickshire, designed to be the room where everything happens — cooking, homework, conversation, the morning paper, the late-night cup of tea. The brief was the one most clients eventually arrive at: make it beautiful, but make it work properly first.
We balanced classic country features — Belfast sink, range cooker, exposed chrome — with the unromantic essentials of modern family life: clever storage, easy-clean surfaces, and a layout that lets two people work in the room without bumping elbows.
A kitchen that could host Sunday lunch for twelve, breakfast for two, and everything in between. It needed to look like a country kitchen and behave like a working one — with the storage, the light, and the run of counter that real cooking demands.
Belfast sink, range cooker, painted timber, and a chandelier you'd usually find in a dining room — classic country in its bones. Then the harder work: a thought-through layout, hidden storage where it mattered, chrome details consistent across taps, handles and lighting, and finishes specified to take a few decades of use.
The kitchen has become exactly what the brief asked for: the room everyone gravitates to. It also became the project I kept coming back to in my own head. The studio is named after this kitchen for a reason.
