The Cosy Colour Play Kitchen

‘I’d been dreaming about this kitchen for two decades’ explained our client to Ideal Home and now ‘it just makes me feel happy’. To create this light filled, colour-suffused room a new extension with glorious garden views replaced what had been a long galley kitchen.

As is always the case when people have lived in their home for decades, our client had a clear vision for the new kitchen, having accumulated ideas and inspiration over time. This room is for more than cooking and eating, there is a tv and soft seating here too. 

Forging a greater connection with their much loved garden was important, a huge window and door with uninterrupted glazing brings the outside in, with nature’s hues echoed in the cupboard colour. The Bora hob with integrated extraction enables our client to have their wish of looking out to the garden whilst at the hob, whipping up a feast with ingredients that, depending on the season, will include allotment fruit and veg!

Food storage needed to be sorted, and a larder, where the chunky terrazzo worktop continues inside, is adored: ‘It’s beautiful, practical and I use it every day. It’s genuinely changed how we cook,’ says our client. 

And finally the colour scheme, there is no white here and the bold palette was described thus in The Ultimate Kitchens Special by Homes & Gardens and Livingetc, ‘Brockwell Moss cupboards offer a soft sage green matt finish, balanced by dusky pink walls and wallpaper, while turmeric yellow injects a punchy zing. It shows how embracing colour can lead directly to warmth, depth and design confidence.’

This certainly is a kitchen that embraces colour and the results are gorgeous – this is a fun, cosy, calming and inviting room, the renovation has changed the way this family uses their kitchen, a room that now brings happiness!