A Green Blue Kitchen in Greenwich

This kitchen is in the new extension of a home that our clients have lived in for over 30 years, a much loved Victorian house that has been the family nest. With demanding jobs that involved lots of time abroad, note the curiosities collected along the way displayed throughout, transferring to the UK, the time was right to renovate their home in preparation for the next chapter.

The kitchen before had been fairly small and this was a relished opportunity to bring the large oak dining table into the space, creating a relaxed spot for eating and chatting. Indeed the table helped inform the layout of the whole space and also the function of the island – seating here vetoed as chairs at the table do the job. Our clients love to host and there is a more formal dining room next door.

On the must-have list for the kitchen was a large worktop for food prep and flower arranging, a Pluck larder and glazed cabinet. There were very tangible items to incorporate, but also discussed with their designer was a wish to avoid an overly ‘fitted kitchen’ feel.  

This more nebulous concept has been part of previous briefs; we understand why cupboards that are all the same, a single colour and design are not everyone’s cup of tea. 

We used the wood and colour arrangement – Verdigris is the main hue, with London Plane wood elsewhere and moments of Ruskin Blossom – to help disrupt the ‘fitted kitchen’. Incidentally, Verdigris is a fascinating colour, a blue sage green, that seems to shade-shift depending on the light and surrounding materials. 

The layout also works to this idea of a kitchen that doesn’t feel too fitted.  The fluted glass cupboard is a standalone piece, the extraction with space around it and then the tall Verdigris cupboard – visually the difference along this wall is key. The London Plane larder with a Ruskin Blossom book shelf ditto, imagine if this was Verdigris too.

The reimagined kitchen is now a hub of the home, a space to bring people together…and why we get so much satisfaction from helping to create spaces like this!