Victorian terrace, Walthamstow · 2024

Ashcombe Kitchen

A galley kitchen given back two metres, and a worktop you can actually cook a Sunday lunch on.

Oiled oak · Bone · Graphite

Kitchen with oak fronted base units, a tall painted cupboard run and a stone worktop

Rooms: Kitchen, pantry and the passage to the garden
What we did: Full room design
How long: 22 weeks, including the build
Our fee: Design fee £6,900

The house had a kitchen at the back and a dining room nobody sat in. Taking out one stud wall gave the kitchen the length it needed and left room for a run of tall cupboards on the blank side.

Oak fronts on the base units, painted tall cupboards, and a honed stone worktop that is 70mm thick at the island so it reads as a table. Two of the three light circuits are on dimmers, because the room is also where the family eats.

What the client was handed

Layout options at 1:50, then a set for pricing
Joinery drawings and a schedule of ironmongery
Appliance and services coordination with the builder
Site visits at first fix, second fix and snagging

Kitchen counter detail with a rust-coloured tiled splashback, sink and kettle — Glazed tile to the underside of the wall cupboards, laid stack bond so the grout lines stay quiet.

Run of tall oak cupboards beside a built-in oven, with the oak table in the foreground — The tall run on the blank side, and the table end where the room stops being a kitchen.

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